Getting to Ballon d'Alsace
Ballon d'Alsace is 1 h 53 by road from Besançon (128 km), 5 h 28 from Paris, 38 min from Bas Évette railway station.
Ballon d'Alsace is a ski resort in the Vosges (Haut-Rhin), in the commune of Sewen. The village sits at 1,104 m and the ski area rises to 1,157 m, a skiable vertical of 335 m.
Getting to Ballon d'Alsace
By road
- From Besançon : 1 h 53 · 128 km
- From Nancy : 1 h 58 · 136 km
- From Strasbourg : 2 h 13 · 154 km
- From Dijon : 2 h 39 · 210 km
- From Genève : 3 h 58 · 259 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon : 4 h 16 · 369 km
- From Annecy : 4 h 28 · 303 km
- From Chambéry : 4 h 56 · 345 km
- From Grenoble : 5 h 02 · 455 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 5 h 04 · 428 km
- From Valence : 5 h 21 · 468 km
- From Paris : 5 h 28 · 459 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 41 · 511 km
- From Montpellier : 7 h 25 · 669 km
- From Marseille : 7 h 30 · 679 km
- From Perpignan : 8 h 46 · 817 km
- From Nice : 8 h 54 · 732 km
- From Bordeaux : 9 h 14 · 848 km
- From Toulouse : 9 h 18 · 852 km
- From Pau : 11 h 15 · 1044 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Bas Évette station
halt · then 38 min by road (24 km)
Nearest main station: Méroux, 56 min 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
- Bâle-Mulhouse (BSL) : 1 h 16 by road · 77 km
- Strasbourg-Entzheim (SXB) : 2 h 06 by road · 144 km
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By electric car
No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 September 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute Alsace ↗ — 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.