Auron
1,600 mVillage altitude
2,450 mTop of the ski area
136 kmAlpine pistes
19Ski lifts
€44Adult day pass
Auron is a winter sports resort and a hamlet of the commune of Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée situated in the Alpes-Maritimes, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Live webcams
All webcams (2) →Each player is the camera operator’s own, loaded only when you ask for it — it may set its own trackers.
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.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-January to late March. 107 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 339 cm of fresh snow, measured over 40 winters at the Météo-France “ISOLA 2000” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 40 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,600 m · top 2,450 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: 2,450 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,600 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 107 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 76%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 136 km · Lifts: 19 · Balance between piste levels: 90%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €44 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.32/km · Adult 6-day pass: €217
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 45% · Magic carpets: 3 · Sledging runs: 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 7 hr 09 · Nearest railway station: 1 hr 37 · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 32
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 3 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 17 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 728 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?2 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 11% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €44 — 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).
Lift passes
All prices (child, family, season) →€217 6 days
Price declared by the resort to ANMSM (the French ski resorts’ mayors association) — not the official price list, which prevails. Season not stated by the resort. ANMSM ↗
44 pistes, by level
3 green17 blue15 red9 black
- Skiable vertical
- 850 m
- Snowmaking
- 70% of pistes
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct) . The national register attributes 20 lifts to Auron alone; the figure above comes from the most reliable source.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20263 kmLongest piste — Bouchiet (blue), 474 m of vertical
552 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,250 → 1,698 m, 1 km
2,444 mHighest lift top — Dome (detachable chairlift), national lift register
27,410Total lift capacity, people per hour — 20 installations: 2 aerial tramways, 1 gondola, 9 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets
29 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1972, newest 2020
3,000Biggest lift, people per hour — Les Nabines (chairlift, 2004)
17 kmTotal length of lifts — 17 lifts mapped
1,664 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,289Inhabitants — Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée (INSEE 06120)
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 Auron only (“AURON”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Auron
The partners covering this resort, shown side by side, and the shop to kit out before you leave. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.
Collective accommodation
728 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 8 hotels · 150 rooms (1 × 4★, 5 × 3★, 1 × 1★)
- 2 holiday villages and family centres · 292 bed spaces
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 436 bed spaces
- 2 campsites · 134 pitches
Commune: Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée · 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 Auron
Ice rink
- Patinoire · 0.7 km away · OpenStreetMap
Museum
- Musée Ancienne Laiterie · Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée · 3.9 km away
- Musée de l'art religieux · Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée · 3.9 km away
Cinema
- Le Riounet · 0.8 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 Auron
140 instructors
🇬🇧 42 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Bureau d'Information Touristique · Avenue de Malhira, 06660 · +33(0)493230266 · info.auron@explorenca.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- 100_Neige_2025_2026 (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 Bureau d'Information Touristique 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 · 1 km
5 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Lieuson
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 Auron — up to 1,500 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cime de la Bercha · Petit Tour d'Auron | 3.1 · E1 · F | 1,410 m | 1,600 → 2,452 m | E · W · NW · N · NE | 2.5 km |
| Mont Triboulet · Vallon de Demandols | 3.1 · E1 · PD- | 1,250 m | 1,330 → 2,578 m | N | 3.6 km |
| Mont Ferant · Traversée | n/a · PD+ | 750 m | 1,600 → 2,382 m | NE | 4.6 km |
| Mont Rougnous · Depuis Roya | n/a · AD+ | 1,083 m | 1,590 → 2,673 m | NE | 5.2 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 Auron
From Paris: 10 hr 17 (807 km) by road.
By road
- From Nice: 1 hr 37 · 94 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 38 · 278 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 00 · 407 km
- From Valence: 5 hr 13 · 451 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 6 hr 13 · 385 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 21 · 555 km
- From Grenoble: 6 hr 36 · 571 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Lyon: 6 hr 46 · 578 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Chambéry: 7 hr 10 · 575 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 17 · 642 km
- From Dijon: 7 hr 32 · 538 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 7 hr 33 · 502 km
- From Annecy: 7 hr 39 · 622 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Besançon: 7 hr 51 · 567 km
- From Genève: 7 hr 55 · 630 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Pau: 9 hr 12 · 832 km
- From Nancy: 9 hr 39 · 748 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 41 · 884 km
- From Strasbourg: 9 hr 55 · 794 km
- From Paris: 10 hr 17 · 807 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
L'Ariane La Trinité station
halt · then 1 hr 37 drive (97 km)
Nearest main station: Nice, 1 hr 38 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
- Nice-Côte d’Azur (NCE): 1 hr 32 by road · 90 km
- Toulon-Hyères (TLN): 3 hr 06 by road · 232 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Auron as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
4 charging stations within 2 km
10 charging points · up to 22 kW
- Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée - Parking inférieur · IZIVIA · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- Auron - Entrée Village · IZIVIA · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.8 km
- Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée - Cinéma/Piscine · IZIVIA · 4 points · 22 kW · 0.9 km
- Saint-Etienne-De-Tinée - Voie du berger · IZIVIA · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.3 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Auron?
Auron sits at 1,600 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,450 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Auron have?
Auron has 136 km of slopes, 19 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Auron?
The longest piste is Bouchiet: 3 km (blue run), for 474 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 Auron?
The highest lift, Dome (detachable chairlift), tops out at 2,444 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Auron have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 20 installations at Auron (2 aerial tramways, 1 gondola, 9 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 27,410 people per hour, of which 3,000 for Les Nabines alone. The fleet spans 1972 to 2020, an average age of 29 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 much is a lift pass in Auron?
The adult day pass costs €44 and the 6-day pass €217 (season not stated by the resort, declared by the resort to ANMSM (the French ski resorts’ mayors association)).
How do I get to Auron?
By road, Auron is 1 hr 37 from Nice (94 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is L'Ariane La Trinité, 1 hr 37 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 Nice-Côte d’Azur, 1 hr 32 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Auron?
10 hr 17 for 807 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 Auron?
Good snow from mid-January to late March. 107 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 339 cm of fresh snow, measured over 40 winters at the Météo-France “ISOLA 2000” station. This verdict rests on 40 winters of Météo-France measurements (1980-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Auron good for beginners and families?
45% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
Nearby resorts
Full page in French. The French page carries the editorial guides and a few extra readings; every figure, webcam and price on this page is the same one. Auron in French →
Every figure carries its source and date; a missing figure shows as “—”, never estimated. Embed this widget on your site