Les Gets weather, webcams and snow: the official sources

• 9 viewpointsOfficial webcams
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• 1,172 mVillage and Front de Neige
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• 1,826 mMont Chéry summit
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• 1,200 m and 1,800 mSnow report points
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• 12 Dec 2026 (snow permitting)Partial ski area opening
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Before a stay in Les Gets, you want to know whether it is snowing, what tomorrow will bring and what the slopes look like this morning. We do not publish this information live: a snow depth copied here would be wrong within hours. This page shows where to find the official sources, checked on 9 November 2026, and gives you the reference points to read them properly.

The official webcams

The Les Gets tourist office brings 9 webcams together on its page at lesgets.com/webcams. Each shows the altitude of the viewpoint, which helps you understand what you are looking at:

Reading the images

More than 700 m separate the Les Perrières webcam from the Mont Chéry one. So it is common for the village to look green or wet while the summits are white, or for the bottom to sit in fog while the top is in sunshine. To judge skiing conditions, look first at the Plateau des Chavannes and the summits; for the road and your arrival, check the Village and Les Perrières cameras. A frozen or old image tells you nothing about the weather now: check the time stamp.

Snow cover: the resort’s snow report

The tourist office’s weather and snow report (lesgets.com/meteo-bulletin-neige) shows two measuring points:

• bottom of the resort, 1,200 m;
• top of the resort, 1,800 m.

For each, it gives morning and afternoon weather, snow depth and quality, and the avalanche risk on a scale out of 5. The data provider is not named on the page.

To see what is open, the tourist office publishes a “live” page of the day’s openings, and the Portes du Soleil website shows the status of runs and lifts across the whole area, with its own weather and snow page. To find your way around, our page on the Les Gets piste map links to the official maps.

2026-2027 season dates

The lift operator announces a partial opening on Saturday 12 December 2026, depending on natural snowfall, full opening on Saturday 19 December and closing on Sunday 11 April 2027. Some runs and lifts may close earlier depending on snow and visitor numbers.

Mountain weather: Météo-France

Météo-France’s mountain weather section (meteofrance.com/meteo-montagne) covers the Northern Alps, where Les Gets is one of the locations offered. It also publishes avalanche risk bulletins (bulletins d’estimation du risque d’avalanche, or BRA). The risk scale runs from 1 to 5: low, moderate, considerable, high and very high (in French: faible, limité, marqué, fort, très fort).

These bulletins mainly matter to anyone leaving the marked runs: ski touring, snowshoeing, off-piste. A “moderate” (2) or “considerable” (3) rating is not a green light. If you have neither the equipment nor the training, stay within the marked ski area or go with a professional.

Reading a mountain forecast: a few habits

1. Check the altitude. A “Les Gets” forecast applies to a given height; between 1,172 m and 1,826 m, the temperature can differ by several degrees.
2. Rain or snow? The snow line (or freezing level) tells you from what altitude precipitation falls as snow; if it is around 1,500 m, it may rain in the village and snow on Mont Chéry.
3. Be wary of long-range forecasts. 10- or 15-day trends are only indicative; a 1- or 2-day forecast is far more reliable.
4. Think about the wind. It makes it feel colder and can lead to some lifts closing.
5. In summer, watch for storms. In a thunderstorm, the tourist office advises staying away from the lifts’ metal structures.
6. For the road, check Inforoute 74 as well as the weather: snow on the pass matters as much as snow on the slopes. Required equipment is explained in our guide to getting to Les Gets.

To pick a side of the valley according to the day’s sun or wind, our comparison of Mont Chéry or Chavannes describes the character of each sector.