Getting to Auron
Auron is 1 h 37 by road from Nice (94 km), 10 h 17 from Paris, 1 h 37 from L'Ariane La Trinité railway station.
Auron is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Alpes-Maritimes), in the commune of Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée. The village sits at 1,656 m and the ski area rises to 2,435 m, a skiable vertical of 783 m.
Getting to Auron
By road
- From Nice : 1 h 37 · 94 km
- From Marseille : 3 h 38 · 278 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 00 · 407 km
- From Valence : 5 h 13 · 451 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 6 h 13 · 385 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Perpignan : 6 h 21 · 555 km
- From Grenoble : 6 h 36 · 571 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Lyon : 6 h 46 · 578 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Chambéry : 7 h 10 · 575 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Toulouse : 7 h 17 · 642 km
- From Dijon : 7 h 32 · 538 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 7 h 33 · 505 km
- From Annecy : 7 h 39 · 622 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Besançon : 7 h 51 · 567 km
- From Genève : 7 h 55 · 630 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Pau : 9 h 12 · 832 km
- From Nancy : 9 h 39 · 748 km
- From Bordeaux : 9 h 41 · 884 km
- From Strasbourg : 9 h 55 · 794 km
- From Paris : 10 h 17 · 807 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
L'Ariane La Trinité station
halt · then 1 h 37 by road (97 km)
Nearest main station: Nice, 1 h 38 by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Nice-Côte d’Azur (NCE) : 1 h 32 by road · 90 km
- Toulon-Hyères (TLN) : 3 h 06 by road · 232 km
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By electric car
4 charging locations within 2 km
10charging points · up to22 kW
- Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée - Parking inférieur · IZIVIA · 2points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- Auron - Entrée Village · IZIVIA · 2points · 22 kW · 0.8 km
- Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée - Cinéma/Piscine · IZIVIA · 4points · 22 kW · 0.9 km
- Saint-Etienne-De-Tinée - Voie du berger · IZIVIA · 2points · 22 kW · 1.3 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoutes 06 (Alpes-Maritimes) ↗ — passes, snow chains, winter maintenance
- Bison Futé (national) ↗
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain municipalities (French “loi Montagne II”).
Driving times: OpenStreetMap (OSRM); stations: SNCF open data; airports: Wikidata — read on 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.
Resort data: declared by Bureau d'Information Touristique and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September