Brides-les-Bains
600 mVillage altitude
3,200 mTop of the ski area
13 kmAlpine pistes · 600 km across Les 3 Vallées
8Ski lifts
€84.20Adult day pass · Les 3 Vallées · 2026-2027
Brides-les-Bains is a French commune located in the département of Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its administrative centre constitutes a valley-bottom village of the massif de la Vanoise, in Tarentaise, and the commune had 442 inhabitants in 2023.
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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.
Right now at the LA PLAGNE_SAPC station (2,120 m)
Source: Météo-France, LA PLAGNE_SAPC weather station, 10 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from early February to mid-March. 51 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 289 cm of fresh snow, measured over 13 winters at the Météo-France “LA LECHERE_SAPC” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 13 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 600 m · top 3,200 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: 3,200 m · Bottom of the pistes: 600 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 51 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 13 km · Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 600 km · Lifts: 8 · Balance between piste levels: 95%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?2.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €84.20 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.14/km · Adult 6-day pass: €421 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?1.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 61% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 0 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 30 · Nearest railway station: 8 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 16
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 3 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 405 — 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: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 31% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €84.20 — 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 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€421 6 days
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Les 3 Vallées pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Les Menuires. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
18 pistes, by level
6 green5 blue5 red2 black
- Skiable vertical
- 2,600 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 7 named trails — 69 km of marked loops (21 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 2.7 km from the resort
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); km of the linked area: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20268 kmLongest piste — Biolley (blue), 375 m of vertical
1,052 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,489 → 1,437 m, 4 km
2,700 mHighest lift top — Saulire Express 2 (gondola)
97 kmTotal length of lifts — 85 lifts mapped
15,583 haSki area boundary (OSM)
442Inhabitants — Brides-les-Bains (INSEE 73057)
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.
Staying and hiring gear in Brides-les-Bains
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Collective accommodation
405 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 13 hotels · 501 rooms (2 × 4★, 9 × 3★, 2 × 2★)
- 3 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 320 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 85 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 94 pitches
Commune: Brides-les-Bains · 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.
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 Brides-les-Bains
Toboggan runs
- Piste de luge (Courchevel 1850 - Courchevel Village) · Courchevel · 6.7 km away
- Piste de luge Moriond Racing · Courchevel · 7.8 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine publique · Brides-les-Bains · 0.2 km away
- Piscine en plein-air de la Tania · Courchevel · 3.2 km away
- Parc Olympique · Les Allues · 6.6 km away
- Aquamotion · Courchevel · 7.4 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Le Grand Spa Thermal · Brides-les-Bains · 0.1 km away
- Les Thermes de Brides-Les-Bains · Brides-les-Bains · 0.1 km away
- Aquamotion - SPA · Courchevel · 7.4 km away
Paragliding
- Team FBI Parapente Tandem · Courchevel · 4.9 km away
- DEJOUY Jean-Jacques - Parapente · Courchevel · 5.7 km away
- Audacius by Prosneige Parapente · Les Allues · 6.5 km away
- TandemTOP Paragliding · Courchevel · 6.7 km away
Museum
- Musée des Allues · Les Allues · 2.4 km away
- Galerie d'exposition / Patio au Centre Culturel Marius Hudry · Moûtiers · 4.3 km away
- Centre Culturel Marius Hudry · Moûtiers · 4.3 km away
- Musée des Traditions Populaires · Moûtiers · 4.3 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Le Doron · Brides-les-Bains · 0 km away
- Cinéma "Le Rex" · Moûtiers · 4.6 km away
- Cinéma Méribel-Mottaret · Les Allues · 8.9 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. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme de Brides-les-Bains · 2, Place du Centenaire, 73570 · 0479552064 · contact@brides-les-bains.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 de Brides-les-Bains and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 1 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 Brides-les-Bains — up to 2,002 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont Jovet · Par les Monts depuis Brides-Les-Bains | 2.3 · E1 · F+ | 2,002 m | 556 → 2,558 m | NE · SE · SW | 4 km |
| Dou de Moûtiers · Versant SE depuis Villemartin | 1.2 · E1 · PD- | 1,025 m | 1,276 → 2,301 m | SE | 5.4 km |
| Dos de Crêt Voland · En boucle par le Roc de la Lune, Le Prés des Cristaux et la Combe des Dogettes | 1.1 · E1 · F | 900 m | 1,589 → 2,092 m | SW | 5.8 km |
| Dos de Crêt Voland · Depuis Béranger | 1.2 · E1 | 511 m | 1,581 → 2,092 m | SW | 5.8 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 Brides-les-Bains
From Paris: 6 hr 52 (652 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 05 · 83 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 20 · 77 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 21 · 112 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 02 · 123 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 15 · 182 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 25 · 205 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 49 · 230 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 07 · 383 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 08 · 347 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 22 · 295 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 32 · 410 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 37 · 419 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 53 · 557 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 58 · 497 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 14 · 593 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 17 · 513 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 49 · 644 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 52 · 652 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 06 · 737 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 44 · 834 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station
regional station · then 8 min drive (6 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 03 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 16 by road · 91 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 1 hr 54 by road · 158 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Brides-les-Bains as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
3 charging points · up to 22 kW
- 20 Avenue du Comte Greyfié de Bellecombe · QOVOLTIS · 3 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Brides-les-Bains?
Brides-les-Bains sits at 600 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 3,200 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Brides-les-Bains have?
Brides-les-Bains has 13 km of slopes (600 km across Les 3 Vallées), 8 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Brides-les-Bains?
The longest piste is Biolley: 8 km (blue run), for 375 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 Brides-les-Bains?
The highest lift, Saulire Express 2, tops out at 2,700 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 85 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 97 km.
How much is a lift pass in Brides-les-Bains?
The adult day pass for the Les 3 Vallées linked area costs €84.20 and the 6-day pass €421 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Les Menuires).
How do I get to Brides-les-Bains?
By road, Brides-les-Bains is 1 hr 05 from Chambéry (83 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains, 8 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 Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 16 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Brides-les-Bains?
6 hr 52 for 652 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 Brides-les-Bains?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from early February to mid-March. 51 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 289 cm of fresh snow, measured over 13 winters at the Météo-France “LA LECHERE_SAPC” station. This verdict rests on 13 winters of Météo-France measurements (2007-2020); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Brides-les-Bains good for beginners and families?
61% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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