{"id":2039,"date":"2022-01-19T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:09:43","slug":"which-ski-resorts-in-france-have-the-most-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/01\/which-ski-resorts-in-france-have-the-most-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Which ski resorts in France have the most snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While it\u2019s very difficult to compare snowfall across ski resorts as there are so many different ways of measuring it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, based solely on the average cumulative snow depth over the last eight years, these are the snowiest 5 ski resorts in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. <strong>Tignes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the highest ski resorts in France and with the Grande Motte glacier to offer, it\u2019s perhaps no surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/tignes\">Tignes <\/a>comes top of this list. Sometimes topping 10m of snow, on average Tignes delivers 697cm of snow each winter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tignes-3_maxi_x685y321.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tignes-3_maxi_x685y321.jpg\" alt=\"Tignes ski resort\" class=\"wp-image-718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tignes-3_maxi_x685y321.jpg 685w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tignes-3_maxi_x685y321-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tignes-3_maxi_x685y321-190x89.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tignes-3_maxi_x685y321-60x28.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tignes-3_maxi_x685y321-400x187.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. <strong>Cauterets<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be no surprise to anyone who\u2019s visited this charming Belle Epoque town in the French Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es. Its micro-climate means it logged an average of 688cm of cumulative snowfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2040\" width=\"694\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-190x143.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>(c) The Ski Podcast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. <strong>Piau Engaly<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Third on our list is another Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9ean resort. Despite only going as high as 2600m, you can expect an average of 628cm each season here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. <strong>Val Thorens<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe\u2019s highest ski resort at 2300m (and recently voted France\u2019s Best Ski Resort) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-thorens\">Val Thorens<\/a> falls just a single centimetre behind Piau Engaly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean-1024x643.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1478\" width=\"698\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean-1024x643.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean-190x119.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean-60x38.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean-400x251.jpg 400w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19tirolean.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Val Thorens Zip wire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. <strong>Val d&#8217;Is\u00e8re<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbour to Tignes in the huge Espace Killy ski area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-d-isere\">Val d&#8217;Is\u00e8re<\/a> slides into 5<sup>th<\/sup> place with 534cm of snow on average each winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-d-Isere.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-d-Isere.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-d-Isere.jpg 685w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-d-Isere-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-d-Isere-190x89.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-d-Isere-60x28.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-d-Isere-400x187.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accommodation in the Alps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to try out any of these snow resorts or any others in the Alps, then please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/contact.php\">contact the Chaletline team<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would be delighted to offer advice on finding the right accommodation for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/01\/which-ski-resorts-in-france-have-the-most-snow\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-190x143.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/caut1-190x143.jpg<\/a><p>While it\u2019s very difficult to compare snowfall across ski resorts as there are so many different ways of measuring it. However, based solely on the average cumulative snow depth over the last eight years, these are the snowiest 5 ski &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/01\/which-ski-resorts-in-france-have-the-most-snow\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,140,86],"tags":[141,30,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}