Avalanche bulletins for the Alps

From the official avalanche warning services: the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF for Switzerland, avalanche.report for Tyrol and Météo-France for the French Alps. For each region we show the danger level, plus the avalanche problems and the bulletin text where the service provides them, and link to the original bulletin. We don't write or change the forecast.

In winter SLF and avalanche.report publish a new bulletin every afternoon and can update it the next morning. Météo-France publishes once a day. We check for new bulletins twice a day, at about 07:30 and 17:30 Central European Time, so a bulletin here can be a few hours behind the source. Every region page shows when its bulletin is valid.

108 regions in our latest data: 45 regions in Switzerland from SLF, 40 regions in Tyrol from avalanche.report and 23 massifs in the French Alps from Météo-France. Other parts of the Alps, such as Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Bavaria and the Italian Alps, are not covered.

The European avalanche danger scale has five levels: 1 Low, 2 Moderate, 3 Considerable, 4 High and 5 Very high. The level describes how likely avalanches are and how large they can get across a whole region on that day. Most fatal avalanche accidents happen at level 2 and level 3. The avalanche problems and the bulletin text say which slopes, aspects and elevations the danger applies to.

Most services publish every day from early December until spring, usually into April or May. Outside the season this page shows the last bulletin each service published, with its date.