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Snow report for Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise today

At Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise, over 15 measured winters at the Les Arcs weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 127 days a winter, and 521 cm falls over 59 days of snowfall.

Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 1,633 m and the ski area rises to 2,593 m, a skiable vertical of 1,392 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, Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise 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.

Météo-France measurements · 9 winters (2016-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.4 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 6.2 h · Feb 7.3 h · Mar 8.4 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November—no record
  2. December71 cmGood skiing · 82%
  3. January99 cmGood skiing · 92%
  4. February140 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March162 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April114 cmGood skiing · 96%
  7. 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 « La Rosiere » (1867 m, à 7.0 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

15 complete winters measured, from 1991-1992 to 2025-2026 — on average 127 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “Les Arcs” station (2040 m, 5.6 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec57 cmVariable · 70 %
  2. 16-31 Dec84 cmGood skiing · 80 %
  3. 1-15 Jan110 cmGood skiing · 93 %
  4. 16-31 Jan136 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  5. 1-15 Feb151 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  6. 16-29 Feb169 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  7. 1-15 Mar178 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  8. 16-31 Mar180 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  9. 1-15 Apr173 cmGood skiing · 100 %
Best winter of the series
1991-1992 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2014-2015 — 100 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 521 cm a winter on average, spread over 59 days of snowfall. Measured over 13 complete winters, from 1994-1995 to 2025-2026.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
80 cm — 1994-1995
Snowiest winter
1994-1995 — 845 cm
Leanest winter
1996-1997 — 259 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “Les Arcs” station (2040 m, 5.6 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 2040 m, well below the top of the ski area (2593 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. Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise stretches from 1,201 m to 2,593 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by Sainte Foy Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September