Snow report for Le Chazelet today

At Le Chazelet, over 27 measured winters at the ALPE-D'HUEZ weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 101 days a winter.

Le Chazelet is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of La Grave. The village sits at 1,783 m and the ski area rises to 2,416 m, a skiable vertical of 916 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, Le Chazelet 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 May: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.5 h · Dec 5.8 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.6 h · Mar 8.7 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November35 cmVariable · 50%
December100 cmGood skiing · 99%
January145 cmGood skiing · 100%
February166 cmGood skiing · 100%
March184 cmGood skiing · 100%
April163 cmGood skiing · 100%
May112 cmGood skiing · 92%

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 1,783 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

27 complete winters measured, from 1988-1989 to 2025-2026 — on average 101 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ALPE-D'HUEZ” station (1860 m, 17.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026

1-15 Dec30 cmInsufficient · 38 %
16-31 Dec40 cmVariable · 59 %
1-15 Jan57 cmVariable · 77 %
16-31 Jan71 cmGood skiing · 81 %
1-15 Feb78 cmGood skiing · 84 %
16-29 Feb92 cmGood skiing · 92 %
1-15 Mar90 cmGood skiing · 90 %
16-31 Mar70 cmGood skiing · 81 %
1-15 Apr55 cmVariable · 66 %

Best winter of the series: 2019-2020 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series: 1992-1993 — 5 days at 30 cm or more

Snowfall: no long enough record of fresh snow at this station. Rather than an estimate, we show nothing.

Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ALPE-D'HUEZ” station (1860 m, 17.1 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 1860 m, well below the top of the ski area (2416 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails.

Why altitude matters. Le Chazelet stretches from 1,500 m to 2,416 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.