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Risoul at 2300 m altitude
Issued by Snow-Forecast.com at: 1 am (local time) / 16 May 2026
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Next 3 days weather summary:Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Mon afternoon. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 3°C on Sun afternoon, min -5°C on Sat morning). Wind will be generally light. | Days 4-6 weather summary:Some drizzle, heaviest during Tue afternoon. Very mild (max 11°C on Thu afternoon, min 2°C on Tue morning). Wind will be generally light. | |||||||||||||||||
Saturday 16 | Sunday 17 | Monday 18 | Tuesday 19 | Wednesday 20 | Thursday 21 | |||||||||||||
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clear | cloudy | clear | some clouds | some clouds | snow shwrs | snow shwrs | light rain | light snow | cloudy | light rain | some clouds | some clouds | clear | clear | some clouds | some clouds | clear | |
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max °C | -3 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 10 |
min °C | -5 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 3 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 8 |
-10 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 8 | |
53 | 56 | 71 | 64 | 59 | 89 | 77 | 79 | 91 | 78 | 86 | 84 | 57 | 52 | 59 | 36 | 58 | 52 | |
1950 | 2350 | 1850 | 2450 | 2650 | 2250 | 2500 | 2600 | 2350 | 2700 | 2850 | 2800 | 2900 | 3250 | 3400 | 3650 | 3700 | 3850 | |
 | 6:03 | — | — | 6:03 | — | — | 6:01 | — | — | 6:01 | — | — | 6:00 | — | — | 5:58 | — | — |
 | — | — | 8:54 | — | — | 8:55 | — | — | 8:57 | — | — | 8:58 | — | — | 8:59 | — | — | 9:00 |
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Risoul Snow Conditions
| Top snow depth: | — |
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| Bottom snow depth: | — |
| Fresh snowfall depth: | 6 cm |
| Last snowfall: | 15 May 2026 |
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Other resorts in France are reporting: powder (1) / good piste (0)
Snow History
Week 3 of May has on average:
0.1 | Bluebird Powder days Fresh snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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0.3 | Powder days Fresh snow, limited sun, any wind. |
0.4 | Bluebird days Average snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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Brand new slope in the morning by Brano Meres
January 2011 by MareB
Risoul - 2003 by Becky Amiss
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The above table gives the weather forecast for Risoul at the specific elevation of 2300 m. Our sophisticated weather models allow us to provide snow forecasts for the top, middle and bottom ski stations of Risoul. To access the weather forecasts for the other elevations, use the tab navigation above the table. For a wider view of the weather, check out the Weather Map of France.
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Visitor Reviews of Risoul
Overall 3.6 Based on 24 votes and 18 reviews
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- 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.
Visitor Reviews of Risoul
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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