Albiez-Montrond
Closed1,490 mVillage altitude
2,100 mTop of the ski area
35 kmAlpine pistes
12Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Albiez-Montrond is a French commune situated in the département of Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 16 October 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 ST-SORLIN D'ARVES station (1,694 m)
Source: Météo-France, ST-SORLIN D'ARVES weather station, 9.8 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 31 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 287 cm of fresh snow, measured over 61 winters at the Météo-France “ST-MICHEL DE MAURIENNE LE THYL” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 61 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,490 m · top 2,100 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
Top of the ski area: 2,100 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,490 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 31 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 35 km · Lifts: 12 · Balance between piste levels: 81%
- 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?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 32% · Magic carpets: 2 · Sledging runs: 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 41 · Nearest railway station: 26 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 29
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 5 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 984 — 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 · 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).
34 pistes, by level
1 green10 blue17 red6 black
- Skiable vertical
- 610 m
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20262 kmLongest piste — Grand Croix (blue), 372 m of vertical
449 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,011 → 1,562 m, 2 km
2,006 mHighest lift top — Chatel (platter lift), national lift register
8,140Total lift capacity, people per hour — 12 installations: 2 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
31 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1967, newest 2017
1,500Biggest lift, people per hour — Echaux (chairlift, 2006)
7 kmTotal length of lifts — 7 lifts mapped
579 haSki area boundary (OSM)
350Inhabitants — Albiez-Montrond (INSEE 73013)
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 Albiez-Montrond only (“ALBIEZ MONTROND”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Albiez-Montrond
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Collective accommodation
984 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 2 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 984 bed spaces
Commune: Albiez-Montrond · 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.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
Ski hire
Skiset UK
Skiset’s UK site: ski hire in the resort shops, booked in English, paid in pounds.
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 Albiez-Montrond
Toboggan runs
- Tubing · Fontcouverte-la-Toussuire · 7.3 km away
Swimming pool
- Espace Aquatique et Piscine · Montricher-Albanne · 5 km away
- Piscine extérieure chauffée · Villarembert · 6 km away
- Centre nautique et Espace aqualudique · Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne · 6.9 km away
- Spa d’altitude Ô des Cimes – Résidence CGH L'Alpaga · Fontcouverte-la-Toussuire · 7.4 km away
Dog sledding
- MUSHING SPIRIT · Valloire · 9.1 km away
Paragliding
- Parapente Air Line - Activités · Albiez-Montrond · 0.1 km away
- Corbier Parapente · Villarembert · 6.3 km away
- Parapente Airline · Fontcouverte-la-Toussuire · 7.7 km away
Museum
- L'Espace rural de Gévoudaz · Albiez-Montrond · 2.4 km away
- Musée de la Résistance Rosine Perrier · Villargondran · 5.2 km away
- Ecomusée "Montricher autrefois" · Montricher-Albanne · 6 km away
- Musée des Costumes, Arts et Traditions Populaires · Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne · 6.4 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Casse-Massion · Albiez-Montrond · 0.4 km away
- Cinéma · Montricher-Albanne · 5.1 km away
- Cinéma les Aiguilles · Saint-Jean-d'Arves · 5.9 km away
- Cinéma Star · Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne · 6.4 km away
- Espace culturel Casse Massion · OpenStreetMap
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. Lines marked OpenStreetMap come from the map, within 3 km — opening times on site. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF Albiez Montrond
29 instructors
🇬🇧 22 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de tourisme Montagnicimes - Albiez · Place Opinel, Chef-lieu-ALBIEZ-MONTROND, 73300 · 04 79 59 30 48 · albiez@montagnicimes.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
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.
Resort data: declared by Office de tourisme Montagnicimes - Albiez and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 4 Marked off-piste itineraries · 4 km
1 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Enfers · Hord piste Combe Genin · Mottes
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 Albiez-Montrond — up to 1,850 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col d'Emy · Versant W | 3.1 · E1 · AD- | 1,215 m | 1,480 → 2,694 m | W | 2.2 km |
| Crête de Lacha · Versant W | 2.2 · E2 · PD- | 859 m | 1,364 → 2,223 m | W | 3 km |
| Casse Massion · Casse Massion par Les Karellis | 2.1 · E1 · F | 833 m | 1,600 → 2,433 m | E · NE | 3 km |
| Grande Chible · Versant SW de l'antécime NW en boucle | 3.2 · E1 · AD | 1,040 m | 1,834 → 2,932 m | n/a | 3.2 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 Albiez-Montrond
From Paris: 7 hr 05 (660 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 17 · 91 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 34 · 120 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 46 · 138 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 16 · 176 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 28 · 189 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 37 · 213 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 01 · 238 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 20 · 390 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 21 · 355 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 36 · 348 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 44 · 417 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 49 · 427 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 24 · 423 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 06 · 565 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 27 · 601 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 31 · 566 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 02 · 652 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 05 · 660 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 19 · 745 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 56 · 842 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Arvan station
regional station · then 26 min drive (17 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 16 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 29 by road · 99 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 07 by road · 166 km
Take me there
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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 Albiez-Montrond?
Albiez-Montrond sits at 1,490 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,100 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Albiez-Montrond have?
Albiez-Montrond has 35 km of slopes, 12 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Albiez-Montrond?
The longest piste is Grand Croix: 2 km (blue run), for 372 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 Albiez-Montrond?
The highest lift, Chatel (platter lift), tops out at 2,006 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Albiez-Montrond have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 12 installations at Albiez-Montrond (2 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 8,140 people per hour, of which 1,500 for Echaux alone. The fleet spans 1967 to 2017, an average age of 31 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 Albiez-Montrond?
By road, Albiez-Montrond is 1 hr 17 from Chambéry (91 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Arvan, 26 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 Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 29 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Albiez-Montrond?
7 hr 05 for 660 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 Albiez-Montrond?
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 31 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 287 cm of fresh snow, measured over 61 winters at the Météo-France “ST-MICHEL DE MAURIENNE LE THYL” station. This verdict rests on 61 winters of Météo-France measurements (1959-2022); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Albiez-Montrond good for beginners and families?
32% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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