The winter, wrapped

Orcières Merlette

The 2025/26 ski season

November 2025 to April 2026

Good season
299cm of snow (3.0m)A proper winter on the hill.

Orcières Merlette saw 299cm of snow across the 2025/26 season, down 8% on last winter, with 2 more powder days than last year. That puts it 11th snowiest of the last 15 winters.

5
powder daysmornings over 15cm, worth setting an alarm for.
23cm
biggest single daythe mountain reset overnight on 24 Nov 2025.
171cm
deepest basemeasured on 20 Feb 2026.
118cm
snowiest monthFebruary 2026 stole the show.
72cm
best weekseven days from 10 Feb 2026.
94%
of a typical winter's snowfall. Right about average.

Snow reliability

100/100
ExcellentTypically about 158 ski days a season, improving by 4 days per decade.

Snowfall by season

The 11th snowiest of the last 15 winters.

11/1232212/1338313/1436314/1530515/1631116/1731717/1848818/1928719/2041920/2128021/2222022/2328123/2446024/2532425/26299

Snowfall by month

February was the mid-winter peak, with 39% of the season's snow.

Nov49Dec20Jan68Feb118Mar41Apr3
Planning the winter ahead? See when Orcières Merlette is quietest, week by week.

Modelled base-altitude snowfall from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus), EM Snow archive. The grid sits near resort base, not the summit, so treat totals as a valley-level estimate.

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