Abriès
1,513 mVillage altitude
2,410 mTop of the ski area
28 kmAlpine pistes
7Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Abriès is a former French commune located in the département of Hautes-Alpes, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Having become in 2019 a delegated commune of the new entity of Abriès-Ristolas, it is part of the Queyras Regional Natural Park and is located at the gateway to the nature reserve of the upper Guil valley.
Abriès webcams
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Abriès broadcasts its images on its own page: the link takes you there. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →Open pistes and lifts will appear here during the season, as published by the resort. Out of season we show nothing rather than a misleading zero.
Right now at the RISTOLAS station (1,670 m)
Source: Météo-France, RISTOLAS weather station, 5.6 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Reliable snow mainly in the second half of February; more irregular the rest of the winter. 77 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 276 cm of fresh snow, measured over 56 winters at the Météo-France “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 56 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,513 m · top 2,410 m
Forecast corrected for altitude; fresh snow = forecast total at the top; UV = peak of the day. Beyond 3 days, check the resort’s own report. Source:Open-Meteo.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 315 French resorts we cover — 5 stars means “among the best in France on this point”, not “perfect”. Nobody types these in.
- SnowCan you count on the snow?3.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,410 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,550 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 77 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 96%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 28 km · Lifts: 7 · Balance between piste levels: 74%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: no official price list could be found.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?1.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 26% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 56 · Nearest railway station: 39 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 3 hr 02
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 5 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 430 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 — index: what the map and the listings publish
“Atmosphere” and “Luxury” are indexes: they count what OpenStreetMap and the event listings publish within 2.5 km (bars, nightclubs, rated hotels, spas, upcoming events), not what you experience there. A zero means “nothing mapped”, not “nothing there”. Sources per criterion: snow (altitudes declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), STRMTG register, OpenStreetMap; snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (figures declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), national lift register (STRMTG), OpenStreetMap) ; value (the resort’s official price list) ; families and beginners (OpenStreetMap pistes, price list, ESF ski school, Famille Plus label, OpenStreetMap leisure) ; access (OSRM drive times from 20 cities, SNCF stations, GTFS shuttles, airports) ; atmosphere and après-ski (bars, nightclubs and restaurants within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap), upcoming events (OpenAgenda), collective tourist beds (INSEE)) ; luxury and comfort (rated hotels within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap) and by category across the commune (INSEE), spas and boutiques (OpenStreetMap), day pass price).
31 pistes, by level
3 green5 blue20 red3 black
- Skiable vertical
- 860 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 9 named trails — 32 km of marked loops (17 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), right by the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20265 kmLongest piste — Valpreveyre (red), 696 m of vertical
696 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,363 → 1,666 m, 5 km
2,410 mHighest lift top — Ruibon (platter lift), national lift register
5,500Total lift capacity, people per hour — 7 installations: 1 chairlift, 6 drag lifts
32 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1971, newest 2023
1,600Biggest lift, people per hour — Gilly (detachable chairlift, 2006)
6 kmTotal length of lifts — 8 lifts mapped
863 haSki area boundary (OSM)
374Inhabitants — Abriès-Ristolas (INSEE 05001)
Measured on OpenStreetMap (altitudes: IGN RGE ALTI), not taken from the brochure. The vertical above is that of one piste, not of the whole ski area. Population: INSEE municipal population via geo.api.gouv.fr.
Source: national register of mechanical lifts (STRMTG, CAIRN), fleet as of 1 January 2025 — lifts attributed to Abriès only (“ABRIES”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Abriès
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Collective accommodation
430 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 2 hotels · 18 rooms (2 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 140 bed spaces
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 290 bed spaces
- 2 campsites · 111 pitches
Commune: Abriès-Ristolas · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Stay & accommodation
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Gear & equipment
Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
Beyond skiing at Abriès
Without skis on — 3 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Dog sledding
- Azak Mushing · Abriès-Ristolas · 1.5 km away
Museum
- Carré bleu Queyras · Abriès-Ristolas · 0.1 km away
- Musée de la Barma · Abriès-Ristolas · 3.2 km away
- L'Armoire aux 8 Serrures · Château-Ville-Vieille · 9.2 km away
Source: DATAtourisme (open data), within 10 km of the resort; places in a large town of the valley are left out. Checked on 12 September 2026. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF Abries (haut Guil)
14 instructors
🇬🇧 4 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Office de tourisme
In case of accident
112 — the European emergency number, free of charge, triggers mountain rescue. On the pistes, the ski patrol number is printed on the piste map and at lift ticket offices. Piste rescue is charged: check your insurance or take the option sold with the lift pass.
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 1 Marked off-piste itineraries · 3 km
3 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: La Roumane
Itineraries surveyed on OpenStreetMap within a 4 km radius (7 September 2026): “marked” means an itinerary exists on the map, not that it is open or safe on the day.
Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Abriès — up to 1,640 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col de la Lauze (Aiguilles en Queyras) · Versant N - depuis Abriès | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 1,100 m | 1,521 → 2,615 m | N | 1.6 km |
| Sommet de la Querlaye · Versant NNW - Forêt de Marassan | 3.1 · E1 · PD- | 1,350 m | 1,521 → 2,868 m | N | 2.1 km |
| Sommet de la Querlaye · Querlaye >> crête de la Lauze >> la Lauze - depuis Abriès | n/a · PD | 1,316 m | 1,550 → 2,866 m | n/a | 2.1 km |
| Gilly · versant N par le Colette du Gilly | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 1,200 m | 1,656 → 2,467 m | N | 2.4 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
Not a piste. Neither marked, nor patrolled, nor secured: transceiver, shovel, probe, the day’s avalanche bulletin and, better still, a guide. Ski grade (1.1–5.6) = steepness and commitment; exposure (E1–E4) = consequence of a fall.
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 October 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Official piste map
Pistes coloured by level, lifts as lines. The resort’s official map is the reference in season.
Base map © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · pistes © OpenSnowMap (CC-BY-SA) · data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Getting to Abriès
From Paris: 8 hr 53 (738 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 3 hr 11 · 181 km · via Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 21 · 226 km · via Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
- From Marseille: 3 hr 32 · 264 km
- From Annecy: 3 hr 50 · 273 km · via Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
- From Valence: 4 hr 18 · 251 km · avoids Col d’Izoard, closed in winter
From other major cities (14)
- From Genève: 4 hr 20 · 311 km · via Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
- From Lyon: 4 hr 23 · 283 km · via Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 49 · 317 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 50 · 387 km
- From Dijon: 6 hr 08 · 469 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 6 hr 09 · 434 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 12 · 535 km
- From Besançon: 6 hr 27 · 498 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 08 · 621 km
- From Nancy: 8 hr 15 · 680 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 27 · 685 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 53 · 738 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 03 · 811 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 32 · 863 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
halt · then 39 min drive (36 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 3 hr 11 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 2026): ask the resort about a private shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Cuneo (CUF): 3 hr 12 by road · 176 km
- Turin-Caselle (TRN): 3 hr 02 by road · 187 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Abriès as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 October 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.
Freely accessible charge points read from the French national EV charging database (data.gouv.fr ↗, operators’ own declarations), checked on 9 October 2026. Check availability before you leave: the database says what is installed, not what is free tonight.
Road conditions
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain areas (French “Loi Montagne II”).
Driving times computed on the OpenStreetMap road network (OSRM), SNCF stations (open data), airports (Wikidata). Indicative, not a timetable: allow extra time in snow.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Abriès?
Abriès sits at 1,513 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,410 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Abriès have?
Abriès has 28 km of slopes, 7 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Abriès?
The longest piste is Valpreveyre: 5 km (red run), for 696 m of vertical. Measured on the OpenStreetMap map, segments of the same name and level joined end to end, altitudes from the IGN RGE ALTI terrain model — a resort sometimes advertises a longer run by chaining several pistes.
How high do the lifts go in Abriès?
The highest lift, Ruibon (platter lift), tops out at 2,410 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Abriès have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 7 installations at Abriès (1 chairlift, 6 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 5,500 people per hour, of which 1,600 for Gilly alone. The fleet spans 1971 to 2023, an average age of 32 years. This count covers the resort itself, magic carpets included, not the whole linked ski area — a resort brochure often announces a different number. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How do I get to Abriès?
By road, Abriès is 3 hr 11 from Grenoble (181 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre, 39 min by road from the resort. No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables. The nearest airport is Cuneo, 3 hr 12 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Abriès?
8 hr 53 for 738 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is the snow reliable in Abriès?
Reliable snow mainly in the second half of February; more irregular the rest of the winter. 77 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 276 cm of fresh snow, measured over 56 winters at the Météo-France “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station. This verdict rests on 56 winters of Météo-France measurements (1969-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Abriès good for beginners and families?
26% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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