Snow report for Gresse-en-Vercors today

At Gresse-en-Vercors, over 54 measured winters at the GRESSE weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 52 days a winter, and 282 cm falls over 26 days of snowfall.

Gresse-en-Vercors is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère). The village sits at 1,245 m and the ski area rises to 1,697 m, a skiable vertical of 449 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 1 December 2026. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Gresse-en-Vercors opens on 1 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

Average snow depth by month

Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years.

Météo-France measurements · 8 winters (2016-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.1 h · Dec 5.4 h · Jan 5.3 h · Feb 7.1 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 9.9 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December28 cmInsufficient · 45%
January20 cmInsufficient · 29%
February22 cmInsufficient · 34%
March23 cmInsufficient · 45%
April—no record
May—no record

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

Météo-France snow observation network (poste nivo « Gresse en Vercors » (1254 m, à 0.1 km)) — total snow depth recorded by the resort observers, open archive. During the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of readings with at least 30 cm on the ground; “—”: month without readings.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

54 complete winters measured, from 1963-1964 to 2018-2019 — on average 52 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “GRESSE” station (1220 m, 1.5 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec14 cmInsufficient · 21 %
16-31 Dec17 cmInsufficient · 24 %
1-15 Jan23 cmInsufficient · 36 %
16-31 Jan31 cmInsufficient · 49 %
1-15 Feb37 cmVariable · 57 %
16-29 Feb39 cmVariable · 59 %
1-15 Mar35 cmVariable · 54 %
16-31 Mar24 cmInsufficient · 35 %
1-15 Apr11 cmInsufficient · 14 %

Best winter of the series: 1980-1981 — 115 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1989-1990 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 282 cm a winter on average, spread over 26 days of snowfall. Measured over 57 complete winters, from 1959-1960 to 2019-2020.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall: 60 cm — 1984-1985
Snowiest winter: 1998-1999 — 535 cm
Leanest winter: 1989-1990 — 91 cm

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “GRESSE” station (1220 m, 1.5 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 1220 m, well below the top of the ski area (1697 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. Gresse-en-Vercors stretches from 1,248 m to 1,697 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.