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Snow report 5 December 2024
It’s beginning to look and feel a lot like winter out here in Alpe d'Huez. Snow capped peaks once again dominate our winter landscape and it’s really cold. We're at the start of a new ski season now, who’s excited? We are excited to bring you an up to date snow report every week throughout the season.
Alpe d'Huez opened on 30 November and we’ve been enjoying fabulous early season skiing on quiet and mainly sunny slopes.
Tonight through to Sunday we are expecting a good snowfall of around 36cm, the heaviest to be on Saturday evening. The early part of this week was extremely cold and although it has warmed up a little on Thursday and Friday, we will see the temperature plummet by Friday night getting down to -9°C by Saturday night.
The freezing level earlier this week was down to around 1000m and is hovering around 2000 - 2400m for the end of the week. This will drop down to around 850m at the weekend, with fresh north westerly winds on Saturday getting lighter into Sunday.
Although the snow coverage is looking good, be aware that as this is early season and the off-piste areas will not have been skied much yet, so not well compacted and there is likely to be thin coverage in many places.
The first planned event for the season is the Mogul Ski World Cup starting on the 12 December and the Christmas festive atmosphere is beginning to build in resort. It’s exciting to see the resort all white again, the mountains adorned with skiers and restaurants and bars open and buzzing once again.
The above sunrise photo ino Alpe d'Huez was taken by skibounduk
What's coming up
Are you planning to visit Alpe d'Huez during December? Check out our guide of what’s on and weather in December.
Alpe d'Huez has got a great and diverse line up of events planned this winter from ski racing, comedy, music festivals to snow e-bike races Check out our events page calendar.
Have you got your ski pass yet? there maybe still early bird deals out there.
Updates
Scroll down to see live forecasts, lift status, links to webcams and above for real time photos from Alpe d'Huez. We will be updating this snow report page every Thursday, so check back in with us next week to see how the pistes are doing and what you can expect from the snow forecast for the next seven days.
We need you!
If you're in Alpe d’Huez this week, we want to see your images, especially videos, of what you've been up to. So when you post to Facebook or Instagram, please tag us @seealpedhuez #seealpedhuez. Every week, we'll be posting our favourite videos and images here and sharing on our social media, along with our weekly resort snow report.
We'll see you out on the pistes very soon.
