Snow report for Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval today

At Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, over 33 measured winters at the ST SIGISMOND weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 12 days a winter, and 223 cm falls over 30 days of snowfall.

Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 728 m and the ski area rises to 1,507 m, a skiable vertical of 732 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

Open pistes and lifts will appear here during the season, as published by the resort. Out of season we show nothing rather than a misleading zero.

Off season, Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval does not publish a snow report. This page fills up automatically every day through the winter, with the source and time of each reading.

Average snow depth by month

Good snow from December to April: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.2 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.5 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November22 cmInsufficient · 35%
December84 cmGood skiing · 96%
January133 cmGood skiing · 100%
February162 cmGood skiing · 100%
March172 cmGood skiing · 100%
April132 cmGood skiing · 96%
May59 cmVariable · 65%

30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.

Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two

Estimate from the ERA5-Land reanalysis (Open-Meteo), about 9 km grid at 786 m. Not a resort measurement: during the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of time with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

33 complete winters measured, from 1993-1994 to 2025-2026 — on average 12 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ST SIGISMOND” station (1020 m, 12.8 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec9 cmInsufficient · 9 %
16-31 Dec9 cmInsufficient · 8 %
1-15 Jan9 cmInsufficient · 3 %
16-31 Jan14 cmInsufficient · 14 %
1-15 Feb15 cmInsufficient · 22 %
16-29 Feb13 cmInsufficient · 17 %
1-15 Mar7 cmInsufficient · 8 %
16-31 Mar2 cmInsufficient · 1 %
1-15 Apr2 cmInsufficient · 1 %

Best winter of the series: 2012-2013 — 45 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2001-2002 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 223 cm a winter on average, spread over 30 days of snowfall. Measured over 33 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 42 cm — 2016-2017
Snowiest winter: 1998-1999 — 525 cm
Leanest winter: 1996-1997 — 71 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ST SIGISMOND” station (1020 m, 12.8 km away), from the open “Daily climatological data” dataset (Open Licence 2.0). The season is counted from 1 December to 15 April; only winters with at least 95 % of those 136 days measured are kept, so no figure here rests on a handful of readings. The reading is taken at 1020 m, well below the top of the ski area (1507 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails. Snowfall figures are the fresh snow depth over 24 hours recorded at the same station (the HNEIGEF column): a day of snowfall is a day with 1 cm or more, and only winters measured 95 % of the time on that column are counted — which is why the record can be longer or shorter than the one for snow on the ground. More snow always falls than remains: some melts, settles or blows away.

Why altitude matters. Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval stretches from 775 m to 1,507 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.