Snow report for Arvieux today

At Arvieux, over 56 measured winters at the ARVIEUX LA CHALP weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 77 days a winter, and 276 cm falls over 33 days of snowfall.

Arvieux is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,686 m and the ski area rises to 2,106 m, a skiable vertical of 415 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 18 December 2026 and close on 21 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Arvieux opens on 18 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

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 7.1 h · Dec 6.8 h · Jan 7.2 h · Feb 8.3 h · Mar 9.5 h · Apr 10.7 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November26 cmInsufficient · 37%
December72 cmGood skiing · 87%
January96 cmGood skiing · 98%
February112 cmGood skiing · 100%
March132 cmGood skiing · 100%
April110 cmGood skiing · 100%
May51 cmVariable · 64%

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 1,686 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

56 complete winters measured, from 1969-1970 to 2025-2026 — on average 77 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station (1690 m, 0.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec19 cmInsufficient · 23 %
16-31 Dec31 cmInsufficient · 47 %
1-15 Jan42 cmVariable · 65 %
16-31 Jan52 cmVariable · 73 %
1-15 Feb58 cmVariable · 79 %
16-29 Feb60 cmGood skiing · 80 %
1-15 Mar56 cmVariable · 72 %
16-31 Mar38 cmInsufficient · 48 %
1-15 Apr22 cmInsufficient · 27 %

Best winter of the series: 1976-1977 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 2006-2007 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 276 cm a winter on average, spread over 33 days of snowfall. Measured over 54 complete winters, from 1970-1971 to 2023-2024.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 83 cm — 1992-1993
Snowiest winter: 1977-1978 — 617 cm
Leanest winter: 2004-2005 — 109 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station (1690 m, 0.1 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 1690 m, well below the top of the ski area (2106 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. Arvieux stretches from 1,691 m to 2,106 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.