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 cm | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | 5 | — | — | 3 | — | — | 6 |
mm | 20 | 16 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 17 | 12 |
max °C | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
min °C | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -2 | -1 | 2 | 3 | -3 |
chill °C | 0 | -1 | -1 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -3 | -3 | -5 | -5 | -7 | -5 | -2 | -2 | -10 |
Humid % | 99 | 99 | 99 | 72 | 70 | 88 | 82 | 84 | 98 | 98 | 79 | 99 | 61 | 65 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 99 |
Freeze m | 2800 | 2950 | 2600 | 2550 | 2650 | 2250 | 2250 | 2350 | 2100 | 2150 | 2450 | 2150 | 2150 | 2050 | 2450 | 2750 | 2950 | 2450 |
 | 7:24 | — | — | 7:26 | — | — | 7:28 | — | — | 7:28 | — | — | 7:30 | — | — | 7:31 | — | — |
 | — | 5:07 | — | — | 5:07 | — | — | 5:06 | — | — | 5:05 | — | — | 5:04 | — | — | 5:02 | — |
Next 3 days weather summary:Heavy rain (total 37.0mm), mainly falling Thu morning. Becoming colder with a light covering of snow, mostly falling on Sat night. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 3°C on Thu afternoon, min -1°C on Fri night). Wind will be generally light. | Days 4-6 weather summary:Mild with heavy rain (total 30.0mm), heaviest during Tue afternoon. Becoming colder with a moderate fall of snow heaviest on Tue night. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 3°C on Tue morning, min -3°C on Tue night). Wind will be generally light. | |||||||||||||||||
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Latest snow reports near Risoul:
It is snowing steadily above Vars. from Vars
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| Last snowfall: | 8 Nov 2026 |
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0.4 | Bluebird Powder days Fresh snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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0.8 | Powder days Fresh snow, limited sun, any wind. |
0.9 | Bluebird days Average snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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Overall 3.6 Based on 24 votes and 18 reviews
We (2 adults and one 13 yr old) stayed in Risoul the week of 17th Feb 2013. The wait at Turin and transfer was 3 hours, but was well worth it. A great resort for all standard of skier, but mainly beginners and intermediates. Saying that, there's some great safe off-piste with good visibility from the main pistes. The lift system takes you out of he base of the resort on 4 chair lifts and 2 drags, from where you can ski back down on a choice of blue, red and green runs, or head up again and get away from the main resort and also quicky strike across and down into Vars. We were told that this week was the busiest French half-term week as well as the UK week, but still the queues were small or non existent after the usual 9am peak. Can't remember queuing for more than 5 minutes on the Risoul side, but did encounter some slightly longer ones in Vars. The resort is mainly self catering, either in fairly low rise appartment blocks or smaller appartment blocks. We stayed at the Foret Blanche appartments (Sara) which were relatively cheap. Basic but comfortable with great ski lockers. Pretty much ski in-ski out give or take 100m walk to piste. You are pretty much captive once in resort, so the shops are pretty expensive, but you can get a reasonable meal and drinks. The mountain restaurants aren't bad value either, with dishes as low as €8 and great plat du hours at €12-15. We don't tend to return to resorts often as we've only been skiing a few years, but for a value family holiday I would definitely return.
Bruce Jones from United Kingdom writes:
We (2 adults and one 13 yr old) stayed in Risoul the week of 17th Feb 2013. The wait at Turin and transfer was 3 hours, but was well worth it. A great resort for all standard of skier, but mainly beginners and intermediates. Saying that, there's some great safe off-piste with good visibility from the main pistes.
The lift system takes you out of he base of the resort on 4 chair lifts and 2 drags, from where you can ski back down on a choice of blue, red and green runs, or head up again and get away from the main resort and also quicky strike across and down into Vars.
We were told that this week was the busiest French half-term week as well as the UK week, but still the queues were small or non existent after the usual 9am peak. Can't remember queuing for more than 5 minutes on the Risoul side, but did encounter some slightly longer ones in Vars.
The resort is mainly self catering, either in fairly low rise appartment blocks or smaller appartment blocks. We stayed at the Foret Blanche appartments (Sara) which were relatively cheap. Basic but comfortable with great ski lockers. Pretty much ski in-ski out give or take 100m walk to piste. You are pretty much captive once in resort, so the shops are pretty expensive, but you can get a reasonable meal and drinks. The mountain restaurants aren't bad value either, with dishes as low as €8 and great plat du hours at €12-15.
We don't tend to return to resorts often as we've only been skiing a few years, but for a value family holiday I would definitely return.
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