Ax 3 Domaines
Off season · opens 5 December 20261,400 mVillage altitude
2,400 mTop of the ski area
80 kmAlpine pistes
21Ski lifts
€46.50Adult day pass
Ax 3 Domaines is a winter sports resort situated in the commune of Ax-les-Thermes, the department of Ariège and the Occitania region of France. Since 2001, the climb to the ski station has been used as a stage finish in the Tour de France cycle race.
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Ax 3 Domaines broadcasts its images on its own page: the link takes you there. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 5 December 2026 and close on 29 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Avalanche danger
3-day forecast
Village 1,400 m · top 2,400 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: 2,400 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,400 m · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 24%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 80 km · Lifts: 21 · Balance between piste levels: 96%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €46.50 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.58/km · Adult 6-day pass: €237
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 61% · Magic carpets: 3 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 6 hr 40 · Nearest railway station: 15 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 04
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 8 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 1,766 — 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 · Adult day pass: €46.50 — 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) →€237 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 ↗
38 pistes, by level
10 green13 blue10 red5 black
- Skiable vertical
- 1,000 m
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 24 lifts to Ax 3 Domaines alone; the figure above comes from the most reliable source.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20264 kmLongest piste — Trois Jasses (green), 328 m of vertical
738 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,295 → 1,558 m, 4 km
2,400 mHighest lift top — Ours (chairlift), national lift register
28,957Total lift capacity, people per hour — 24 installations: 2 gondolas, 7 chairlifts, 12 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets
31 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1955, newest 2019
2,430Biggest lift, people per hour — Tute De L'ours (detachable chairlift, 2000)
26 kmTotal length of lifts — 25 lifts mapped
1,225 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,285Inhabitants — Ax-les-Thermes (INSEE 09032)
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 Ax 3 Domaines only (“AX LES THERMES”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Ax 3 Domaines
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Collective accommodation
1,766 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 6 hotels · 156 rooms (2 × 3★, 3 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 354 bed spaces
- 6 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,412 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 212 pitches
Commune: Ax-les-Thermes · 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 Ax 3 Domaines
Without skis on — 4 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Ice rink
- Patinoire · 3 km away · OpenStreetMap
Spa and thermal baths
- Cures thermales - Ax-les-Thermes · Ax-les-Thermes · 2.6 km away
- Cures courtes Aqua · Ax-les-Thermes · 2.6 km away
- Découverte Aqua · Ax-les-Thermes · 2.6 km away
Paragliding
- Spot de parapente - vol libre · Ax-les-Thermes · 1.7 km away
Museum
- Talcaneô - L'espace muséographique · Luzenac · 8 km away
- Talcaneô · Luzenac · 8 km away
- Mountaneô - L'espace muséographique · Orlu · 8.3 km away
- Mountaneô · Orlu · 8.3 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma d'Ax-Les-Thermes · Ax-les-Thermes · 2.8 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. 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 Ax
58 instructors
🇬🇧 30 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 des Pyrénées Ariégeoises · 6 Avenenue Théophile Delcassé, 09110 · 05 61 64 60 60 · info@pyrenees-ariegeoises.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 des Pyrénées Ariégeoises and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 0 Marked off-piste itineraries
1 km Ski touring routes
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 Ax 3 Domaines — up to 2,150 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Etang d'Embizon · depuis la vallée du Najar | 1.1 · E1 · F+ | 1,050 m | 1,050 → 2,100 m | SE | 1.1 km |
| Jaça dels Esquers de Dessús · des de l'estació d'Acs dels Tèrmes | 1.1 · E1 · F | 650 m | 670 → 1,350 m | N | 1.3 km |
| Pic de l'Étang Rébenty · Tour des crêtes du vallon des Campels | 2.2 · E2 · PD- | 1,250 m | 1,400 → 2,415 m | N · NE · NW · W · E | 3.1 km |
| Pic de Bourbourou · Depuis Le Castelet (09) | 1.3 · E1 · F | 1,300 m | 700 → 2,019 m | NE · N | 4.3 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 Ax 3 Domaines
From Paris: 8 hr 58 (813 km) by road.
By road
- From Toulouse: 1 hr 59 · 137 km
- From Perpignan: 2 hr 36 · 151 km · avoids Port de Pailhères, closed in winter
- From Pau: 3 hr 36 · 248 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 46 · 321 km
- From Bordeaux: 4 hr 22 · 379 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Marseille: 5 hr 26 · 483 km
- From Valence: 5 hr 36 · 518 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 54 · 510 km
- From Grenoble: 6 hr 33 · 610 km
- From Lyon: 6 hr 43 · 618 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 6 hr 58 · 637 km
- From Nice: 7 hr 04 · 641 km
- From Chambéry: 7 hr 18 · 669 km
- From Annecy: 7 hr 43 · 727 km
- From Genève: 8 hr 13 · 765 km
- From Dijon: 8 hr 44 · 810 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 58 · 813 km
- From Besançon: 9 hr 16 · 870 km
- From Nancy: 10 hr 52 · 1021 km
- From Strasbourg: 11 hr 39 · 1108 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Ax-les-Thermes station
halt · then 15 min drive (9 km)
Nearest main station: Toulouse Matabiau, 1 hr 56 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
- Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS): 2 hr 04 by road · 148 km
- Carcassonne-Salvaza (CCF): 2 hr 12 by road · 127 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Ax 3 Domaines as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
6 charging points · up to 46 kW
- PARKING TELECAPINE BONASCRE - AX-LES-THERMES · ELECTRIC 55 CHARGING · 4 points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
- FR-S09-E09032-003-2 · Load Stations · 2 points · 46 kW · 0.5 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 Ax 3 Domaines?
Ax 3 Domaines sits at 1,400 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,400 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Ax 3 Domaines have?
Ax 3 Domaines has 80 km of slopes, 21 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Ax 3 Domaines?
The longest piste is Trois Jasses: 4 km (green run), for 328 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 Ax 3 Domaines?
The highest lift, Ours (chairlift), tops out at 2,400 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Ax 3 Domaines have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 24 installations at Ax 3 Domaines (2 gondolas, 7 chairlifts, 12 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 28,957 people per hour, of which 2,430 for Tute De L'ours alone. The fleet spans 1955 to 2019, 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 much is a lift pass in Ax 3 Domaines?
The adult day pass costs €46.50 and the 6-day pass €237 (season not stated by the resort, declared by the resort to ANMSM (the French ski resorts’ mayors association)).
How do I get to Ax 3 Domaines?
By road, Ax 3 Domaines is 1 hr 59 from Toulouse (137 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Ax-les-Thermes, 15 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 Toulouse-Blagnac, 2 hr 04 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Ax 3 Domaines?
8 hr 58 for 813 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 Ax 3 Domaines open?
According to the dates declared by the resort (ANMSM feed), the resort opens on 5 December 2026 and closes on 29 March 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is Ax 3 Domaines good for beginners and families?
61% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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