Snow report for Pelvoux Vallouise today

At Pelvoux Vallouise, 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.

Pelvoux Vallouise is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of Vallouise-Pelvoux. The village sits at 1,461 m and the ski area rises to 2,220 m, a skiable vertical of 918 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, Pelvoux Vallouise 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 January to March.

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

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 7.1 h · Dec 6.7 h · Jan 7 h · Feb 8.2 h · Mar 9.5 h · Apr 10.6 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

November—no record
December51 cmVariable · 72%
January60 cmGood skiing · 88%
February80 cmGood skiing · 99%
March92 cmGood skiing · 98%
April51 cmVariable · 56%
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 « PUY ST VINCENT_NIVO » (1680 m, à 5.1 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

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, 22.2 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, 22.2 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 1690 m, well below the top of the ski area (2220 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. Pelvoux Vallouise stretches from 1,302 m to 2,220 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.