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Snow report for Val Cenis today

At Val Cenis, over 32 measured winters at the Val d Isere Joseray weather station, snow lies at 30 cm or more for 125 days a winter, and 464 cm falls over 50 days of snowfall.

Val Cenis is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Val-Cenis. The village sits at 1,466 m and the ski area rises to 2,800 m, a skiable vertical of 1,360 m.

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Today’s snow report

Status unknown

The domain is due to open on 12 December 2026 and close on 16 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Val Cenis opens on 12 December 2026. The daily report (snow depths, open pistes and lifts) will appear here from opening day.

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 6.9 h · Dec 6.5 h · Jan 7 h · Feb 8.2 h · Mar 9.2 h · Apr 10.5 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November—no record
  2. December79 cmGood skiing · 100%
  3. January104 cmGood skiing · 100%
  4. February122 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March147 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April140 cmGood skiing · 100%
  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 « Val Cenis (La Berche) » (2101 m, à 2.0 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

32 complete winters measured, from 1990-1991 to 2025-2026 — on average 125 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “Val d Isere Joseray” station (1854 m, 19 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec43 cmVariable · 51 %
  2. 16-31 Dec65 cmGood skiing · 83 %
  3. 1-15 Jan85 cmGood skiing · 97 %
  4. 16-31 Jan97 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  5. 1-15 Feb108 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  6. 16-29 Feb116 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  7. 1-15 Mar118 cmGood skiing · 98 %
  8. 16-31 Mar110 cmGood skiing · 100 %
  9. 1-15 Apr91 cmGood skiing · 98 %
Best winter of the series
2023-2024 — 137 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2016-2017 — 93 days at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 464 cm a winter on average, spread over 50 days of snowfall. Measured over 29 complete winters, from 1994-1995 to 2024-2025.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
70 cm — 2011-2012
Snowiest winter
2017-2018 — 802 cm
Leanest winter
2010-2011 — 196 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “Val d Isere Joseray” station (1854 m, 19 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 1854 m, well below the top of the ski area (2800 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. Val Cenis stretches from 1,440 m to 2,800 m: snow lies longest at the top of the ski area, which is why the two depths are reported separately.

Resort data: declared by Haute Maurienne Vanoise Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September