Alpe d'Huez
Off season · opens 5 December 20261,860 mVillage altitude
3,330 mTop of the ski area
143 kmAlpine pistes · 250 km across Alpe d'Huez Grand Domaine Ski
68Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
L'Alpe d'Huez is a ski resort in Southeastern France at 1,250 to 3,330 metres. It is a mountain pasture in the central French Western Alps, in the commune of Huez, which is part of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image. 7 more cameras on the webcam page.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 5 December 2026 and close on 25 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the ALPE-D'HUEZ station (1,860 m)
Source: Météo-France, ALPE-D'HUEZ weather station, 1.3 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 124 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 453 cm of fresh snow, measured over 32 winters at the Météo-France “L Alpe d Huez (SATA)” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 32 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,860 m · top 3,330 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?4.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 3,330 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,860 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 124 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 98%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 143 km · Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 250 km · Lifts: 68 · Balance between piste levels: 97%
- 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?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 60% · Magic carpets: 13 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 3 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 35 · Nearest railway station: 53 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 37
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?4 / 5
Bars and pubs: 6 · Nightclubs: 2 · Restaurants: 23 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 4,950 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?2.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 2 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 51% · 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).
112 pistes, by level
37 green30 blue29 red16 black
- Skiable vertical
- 1,470 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 1 named trail — 2.1 km of marked loops, 1.4 km from the resort
- Snowpark
- 2 mapped zones — Skicross (intermediate) · Boardercross Family (very easy)
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of pistes, km of the linked area, lifts, pistes by level: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct) . The national register attributes 44 lifts to Alpe d'Huez alone; the figure above comes from the most reliable source.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20268 kmLongest piste — Sarenne (black), 1,657 m of vertical
1,657 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 3,306 → 1,650 m, 8 km
3,318 mHighest lift top — Pic Blanc (aerial tramway), national lift register
53,650Total lift capacity, people per hour — 44 installations: 2 aerial tramways, 6 gondolas, 12 chairlifts, 11 drag lifts, 13 magic carpets
23 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1962, newest 2022
3,900Biggest lift, people per hour — Jeux (chair-and-gondola lift, 2013)
60 kmTotal length of lifts — 70 lifts mapped
5,890 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,244Inhabitants — Huez (INSEE 38191)
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 Alpe d'Huez only (“ALPE D'HUEZ (L')”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Alpe d'Huez
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Collective accommodation
4,950 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 15 hotels · 656 rooms (3 × 5★, 2 × 4★, 7 × 3★, 1 × 1★)
- 3 holiday villages and family centres · 1,958 bed spaces
- 9 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 2,992 bed spaces
Commune: Huez · 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
Neilson
UK tour operator (ATOL 10794): Neilson chalets and hotels in the resort, flying from UK airports on Sundays.
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
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 Alpe d'Huez
Without skis on — 3 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Ice rink
- Patinoire à ciel ouvert · Huez · 0.2 km away
- Patinoire - Pôle Sports & Loisirs · Vaujany · 7.4 km away
- Patinoire des Deux Alpes · Les Deux Alpes · 9.8 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine couverte · Huez · 0 km away
- Piscine de plein air chauffée · Huez · 0.3 km away
- Piscine - Pôle Sports & Loisirs · Vaujany · 7.4 km away
- Piscine des 2 Alpes · Les Deux Alpes · 9.8 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Le SPA du V**** by Pure Altitude · Vaujany · 7.6 km away
- SPA de La Perle By Pure Altitude · Vaujany · 7.7 km away
Paragliding
- Ecole de Parapente - Air Ailes Parapente · Les Deux Alpes · 9.9 km away
Museum
- Musée d'histoire et d'archéologie de l'Alpe d'Huez · Huez · 0 km away
- Eco musée des Cours - Musée rural "Alice" · Auris · 4.5 km away
- GALTA la Galerie des Trésors Alpins · Le Bourg-d'Oisans · 5.3 km away
- Espace Musée de Vaujany · Vaujany · 7.5 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma L'AgorAlp · Huez · 0 km away
- Cinéma Les Ecrins · Le Bourg-d'Oisans · 5 km away
- Cinéma · Vaujany · 7.5 km away
- Le Palais · OpenStreetMap
- Le Signal · 0.7 km away · 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 L'Alpe D'Huez
367 instructors
🇬🇧 277 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 · 51 route de la Poste, 38750 · 04 76 11 44 44 · info@alpedhuez.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (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 and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 2 Marked off-piste itineraries · 4 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Combe Charbonnière · La Brèche
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 Alpe d'Huez — up to 1,870 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croupe de l'Herpie : Point 3060 m · Cheminée S de Mâcle (ou Mascle) | 5.1 · E3 | 290 m | 2,770 → 3,060 m | W | 2.6 km |
| Pic du Lac Blanc · Versant S par le Glacier des Rousses | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 1,463 m | 1,860 → 3,323 m | W | 3.2 km |
| Pic de la Pyramide · Versant W | 3.3 · E1 · AD- | 1,520 m | 1,860 → 3,382 m | W | 3.6 km |
| Pic Bayle · Versant W | 4.1 · E2 · D- | 1,400 m | 2,150 → 3,465 m | W | 3.9 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
Open the piste map (PDF, 4.6 MB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
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 Alpe d'Huez
From Paris: 6 hr 59 (636 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 10 · 63 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 49 · 122 km
- From Valence: 2 hr 07 · 152 km
- From Annecy: 2 hr 18 · 169 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 22 · 165 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Genève: 2 hr 48 · 207 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 56 · 214 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 10 · 290 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 14 · 357 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 15 · 366 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 15 · 331 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 33 · 396 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 29 · 399 km · avoids Col de Restefond, closed in winter
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 35 · 505 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 22 · 577 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 31 · 591 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 57 · 634 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 59 · 636 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 14 · 721 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 26 · 781 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Jarrie - Vizille station
halt · then 53 min drive (48 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 1 hr 10 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
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 1 hr 37 by road · 105 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 2 hr 01 by road · 130 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Alpe d'Huez as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
12 charging stations within 2 km
26 charging points · up to 120 kW
- HUEZ - Parking Palais des sports et des congrès · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0 km
- HUEZ - Parking Palais des sports et des congrès · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 120 kW · 0 km
- HUEZ - Parking Palais des sports et des congrès · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0 km
- HUEZ - Avenue des Jeux · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.2 km
- HUEZ - Parking Des Jeux · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.2 km
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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Alpe d'Huez?
Alpe d'Huez sits at 1,860 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 3,330 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Alpe d'Huez have?
Alpe d'Huez has 143 km of slopes (250 km across Alpe d'Huez Grand Domaine Ski), 68 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Alpe d'Huez?
The longest piste is Sarenne: 8 km (black run), for 1,657 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 Alpe d'Huez?
The highest lift, Pic Blanc (aerial tramway), tops out at 3,318 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Alpe d'Huez have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 44 installations at Alpe d'Huez (2 aerial tramways, 6 gondolas, 12 chairlifts, 11 drag lifts, 13 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 53,650 people per hour, of which 3,900 for Jeux alone. The fleet spans 1962 to 2022, an average age of 23 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 Alpe d'Huez?
By road, Alpe d'Huez is 1 hr 10 from Grenoble (63 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Jarrie - Vizille, 53 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 Grenoble-Alpes-Isère, 1 hr 37 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Alpe d'Huez?
6 hr 59 for 636 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
When does Alpe d'Huez open?
According to the dates declared by the resort (ANMSM feed), the resort opens on 5 December 2026 and closes on 25 April 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Alpe d'Huez?
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 124 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 453 cm of fresh snow, measured over 32 winters at the Météo-France “L Alpe d Huez (SATA)” station. This verdict rests on 32 winters of Météo-France measurements (1991-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Alpe d'Huez good for beginners and families?
60% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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