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Snow report for Les Houches today

At Les Houches, over 63 measured winters at the CONTAMINES MJ weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 48 days a winter, and 302 cm falls over 35 days of snowfall.

Les Houches is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 1,004 m and the ski area rises to 1,401 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, Les Houches 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

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

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

☀️ 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).

  1. November2 cmInsufficient · 0%
  2. December16 cmInsufficient · 23%
  3. January25 cmInsufficient · 35%
  4. February19 cmInsufficient · 28%
  5. March3 cmInsufficient · 4%
  6. April—no record
  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 « CHAMONIX-OBS » (1043 m, à 6.5 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

63 complete winters measured, from 1959-1960 to 2024-2025 — on average 48 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “CONTAMINES MJ” station (1180 m, 9.2 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec13 cmInsufficient · 16 %
  2. 16-31 Dec20 cmInsufficient · 27 %
  3. 1-15 Jan25 cmInsufficient · 32 %
  4. 16-31 Jan35 cmVariable · 50 %
  5. 1-15 Feb38 cmVariable · 58 %
  6. 16-29 Feb37 cmVariable · 60 %
  7. 1-15 Mar30 cmInsufficient · 46 %
  8. 16-31 Mar17 cmInsufficient · 26 %
  9. 1-15 Apr7 cmInsufficient · 8 %
Best winter of the series
1981-1982 — 126 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
1963-1964 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 302 cm a winter on average, spread over 35 days of snowfall. Measured over 65 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
80 cm — 1977-1978
Snowiest winter
1998-1999 — 595 cm
Leanest winter
1963-1964 — 55 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “CONTAMINES MJ” station (1180 m, 9.2 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 1180 m. 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. Les Houches stretches from 1,401 m to 1,401 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by Office de tourisme des Houches and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September