Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.
Key facts
Altitude
1500–3000 m
Vertical drop
1,500 m
Pistes advertised
140 km
Pistes mapped on OSM
106 km
Lifts (mapped near village)
44 · 70% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass
CHF 79
Passes
Epic
Avg snowfall (mid)
4.1 m / season
Nearest airport
GVA · 120 min
Brochure vs map. Crans-Montana advertises 140 km. OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped 106 km of piste centrelines.
The brochure is 32% longer than the map. Resorts often measure the widest line down a slope or count ski routes and linked areas.
Snow & weather updated 1 h ago
Fresh 24 h
0 cm
Fresh 72 h
0 cm
Next 7 days
1 cm
Snow depth top (model)
0 cm
Now at 2850 m
☁️ 2°
Now at 1500 m
8°
Gusts at top
14 km/h
Freezing level
3,080 m
8-day forecast (summit)
Today
☁️
·
-4° / 3°
💨 16
Fri
🌤️
·
-3° / 2°
💨 14
Sat
🌤️
·
-4° / 1°
💨 38
Sun
⛅
·
-8° / -3°
💨 54
Mon
☀️
·
-7° / -1°
💨 30
Tue
🌨️
1 cm
-9° / -4°
💨 40
Wed
☁️
·
-7° / -1°
💨 35
Thu
🌦️
1 cm
-10° / -1°
💨 50
Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 2850 m (summit) and 1500 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.
The last three winters at 2250 m
Avg snowfall / season
4.1 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
6
Snowy days
64
Avg temp at base
-1.2°
Average snowfall by month · best: Dec
Nov
87
Dec
100
Jan
71
Feb
24
Mar
74
Apr
58
By season: 2022/23: 3.6 m · 4 powder days2023/24: 5.1 m · 5 powder days2024/25: 3.6 m · 8 powder days
When to go
Month
Avg snowfall
Tuesday 11:00
Saturday 11:00
Dec
100 cm
~0.6 min
~1 min
SWEET SPOT
Jan
71 cm
~1.3 min
~1.7 min
Feb
24 cm
~2.5 min
~3.5 min
Mar
74 cm
~1.6 min
~2.2 min
Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).
Lift queues
Closed until Dec 6. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:
SIMULATION
Average wait ~3 min, worst 9 min.
Weekend: locals are outFebruary school holidays across EuropeUK half-term
Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)
9h
10h
11h
12h
13h
14h
15h
16h
Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thu 18
Fri 19
Sat 20
Sun 21
Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.
How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.
Map
· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.
Where to sleep 37 places mapped · 3 ski-in/ski-out
Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.
Pistes
Beginner
0.3 km · 0%
Easy (blue / green)
28.2 km · 27%
Intermediate (red / blue)
55.3 km · 52%
Advanced (black)
16.7 km · 16%
Freeride / ski route
5.5 km · 5%
Longest named runs
Kandahar
4.0 km
Les Rousses
3.5 km
Piste Nationale
3.0 km
23 Aminona inferieure
2.9 km
Chetseron
2.5 km
La Chaux
2.5 km
Vercorin
2.4 km
Merbé
2.4 km
Après & food
Bars & pubs
39
Clubs
3
Restaurants
148
Mountain huts
2
🍸 Cris Tea s🍸 Au Saxo🍸 Senso Alto🍸 La Petite Maison🍸 Le Bowling🍸 Brasserie la Marmotte🍸 Le Tirbouchon🍸 Le 66🍸 Le 1900🍸 Caviar House🍸 Le Postillon🪩 Léo's Bar🍸 Zerodix🍸 Monk'is Bar🪩 Le Pacha🍸 Wood🍸 Le Memphis🍸 Summer Beach Club🍸 Le Domino🍸 Le RDV Bar Lounge🍸 Nation's Wine Bar🍸 Le monument🍺 Favela Bar🍸 L'alchimiste
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Nearest major airport: GVA, about 120 min away by road. Directions · Flights
Crans-Montana is a municipality and ski resort in the predominantly French-speaking district of Sierre in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. The municipality was formed through the merger of Chermignon, Mollens, Montana and Randogne municipalities on 1 January 2017. The ski resort Crans-Montana was created through the fusion of the two centres of Crans and Montana, and is split between three municipalities, namely Crans-Montana, Icogne, and Lens. Wikipedia