Getting to Cauterets
Cauterets is 1 h 19 by road from Pau (72 km), 9 h 13 from Paris, 33 min from Lourdes railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Cauterets is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Hautes-Pyrénées). The village sits at 503 m and the ski area rises to 1,850 m, a skiable vertical of 120 m.
Getting to Cauterets
By road
- From Pau : 1 h 19 · 72 km
- From Toulouse : 2 h 36 · 209 km
- From Bordeaux : 3 h 21 · 281 km
- From Perpignan : 4 h 26 · 404 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 53 · 439 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 6 h 29 · 577 km
- From Marseille : 6 h 34 · 602 km
- From Valence : 6 h 43 · 637 km
- From Grenoble : 7 h 40 · 728 km
- From Lyon : 7 h 51 · 736 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 7 h 54 · 615 km
- From Nice : 8 h 11 · 760 km
- From Chambéry : 8 h 25 · 787 km
- From Annecy : 8 h 50 · 846 km
- From Paris : 9 h 13 · 859 km
- From Genève : 9 h 20 · 884 km
- From Dijon : 9 h 23 · 873 km
- From Besançon : 9 h 59 · 932 km
- From Nancy : 11 h 30 · 1084 km
- From Strasbourg : 12 h 23 · 1169 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Lourdes station
main station, high-speed rail · then 33 min by road (31 km)
- From Lourdes station (stop « LOURDES - Gare SNCF ») : 965 — LOURDES - VALLEES (.liO 65), 1 h 03 to the “CAUTERETS - Gare” stop — 5 departures a day on weekdays, 4 a day at weekends · first 07:10, last 19:20 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, liO (Occitanie) · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées (LDE) : 47 min by road · 43 km
- Pau-Pyrénées (PUF) : 1 h 26 by road · 81 km
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By electric car
8 charging locations within 2 km
9charging points · up to44 kW
- CU-SDE65-LUZ2-65120-1 · Load Stations · 1point · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- FR-S65-E65138-002 · Load Stations · 2points · 44 kW · 0.1 km
- CU-SDE65-CAU1-65110-1 · Load Stations · 1point · 22 kW · 0.2 km
- CU-SDE65-CAU1-65110-2 · Load Stations · 1point · 22 kW · 0.2 km
- FR-S65-E65138-003-1 · Load Stations · 1point · 22 kW · 0.2 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
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.