Chabanon
Chabanon is a ski resort located near the village of Selonnet in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, inaugurated at the beginning of the 1970s. A special feature of the resort is the possibility of night skiing. It is located a few kilometres from the Montclar les 2 Vallées resort.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 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?2.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,028 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,528 m · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 19%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 26 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 26 km · Lifts: 12 · Balance between piste levels: 84%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: “adult day pass” is missing from this page.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 65% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 32 · Nearest railway station: 55 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 45
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 5 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 204 — 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 — 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 (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; 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).
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.
7-day forecast
Village 1,605 m · top 2,028 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.
Measured snow history: not available for this resort. No Météo-France station close enough (the 3 nearby stations are outside the resort’s altitude range). We would rather show nothing than borrow a distant valley’s reading.
The ski area
Compare with another resort →52 pistes, by level — 26 km
- Skiable vertical
- 500 m (1,528 m → 2,028 m)
- Lifts
- 1 chairlift, 11 drag lifts
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 6 km of marked loops (3.8 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 700 m from the resortOpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 13 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
See the trails(2)
Trail Level Length Chabanon-Négron red 5.2 km Les Baries blue 0.8 km - Without skis
- 0 km of snowshoe and walking trails
- Piste aspect
- N 80% · E 14% · S 2% · W 3% (descent direction of 44 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme Blanche Serre-Ponçon · Place d'Armes, 04140 Seyne-les-Alpes, 04140 · 0492310622 (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Piste map (PDF)
- Plan des pistes 2019 jpg (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme Blanche Serre-Ponçon and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September
Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.
Lift passes detail →
The price list for this resort is being collected: most resorts publish winter prices between September and November.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 2026Measured 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 Chabanon only (“CHABANON”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Chabanon
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (3) →Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 18 September 2026.
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗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 Chabanon
From Paris: 8 hr 43 (719 km) by road.
By road
- From Marseille: 2 hr 48 · 205 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 54 · 147 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 33 · 206 km
- From Nice: 3 hr 35 · 199 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 43 · 204 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Annecy: 4 hr 02 · 253 km
- From Lyon: 4 hr 06 · 249 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 06 · 328 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 31 · 290 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 39 · 298 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 28 · 476 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 58 · 450 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 58 · 417 km
- From Besançon: 6 hr 17 · 479 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 24 · 562 km
- From Nancy: 8 hr 05 · 661 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 18 · 752 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 40 · 717 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 43 · 719 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 47 · 804 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Chorges station
halt · then 55 min drive (38 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 hr 54 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 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
- Marseille-Provence (MRS): 2 hr 45 by road · 201 km
- Cuneo (CUF): 3 hr 02 by road · 162 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Chabanon as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 September 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.
Freely accessible charge points read from the French national EV charging database (data.gouv.fr ↗, operators’ own declarations), checked on 9 September 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.
Ski touring routes described
Resorts for ski touring →7 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Chabanon — up to 1,015 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clot de Bouc · du col du Fanget | 1.1 · E1 | 550 m | 1,460 → 1,963 m | N | 4.2 km |
| L'Oratoire · Crête du Clot du Fau | 3.3 · E1 · AD | 1,015 m | 1,057 → 2,072 m | N | 7.8 km |
| Tête du Vallon du Loup · Depuis la Maison Forestière de Bellevue | n/a | 650 m | 1,590 → 2,239 m | S · W · SW | 9.3 km |
| Pic de Savernes · Crête de Savernes, couloir SW | 3.2 · E2 | 900 m | 1,470 → 2,344 m | SW | 9.4 km |
| Pic de Savernes · Par la route du Col Bas | n/a · F | 600 m | 1,830 → 2,430 m | SW | 9.4 km |
| Pic de Bernardez · Versant W et SW | 2.3 · F+ | n/a | 1,470 → 2,430 m | SW · W | 9.6 km |
| Pic de Bernardez · Traversée Col Bas - Col de Bernardez | n/a · PD+ | 950 m | 1,480 → 2,430 m | SW | 9.8 km |
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 September 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Beyond skiing at Chabanon
Swimming pool
- Centre Aqualudique de Seyne · Seyne · 5.1 km away
Paragliding
- Belvéd'air Parapente · Montclar · 8.3 km away
Museum
- La Maison du Mulet · Seyne · 2.8 km away
- Musée archéologique de Montclar · Montclar · 6.4 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.
Practical information
Collective accommodation
204 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 3 hotels · 52 rooms (1 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 204 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 33 pitches
Commune: Selonnet · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Tourist office
Office de Tourisme de Chabanon
📍 Station de Chabanon, 04140 Selonnet
Ski school
ESF Chabanon
20 instructors
🇬🇧 5 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
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.
What's on around Chabanon
All events →-
19 September 2026 – 20 September 2026
Mulet et environnement naturel
La Maison du mulet · Seyne
Visite libre des expositions "Le miracle du mulet" et "Les animaux, la nuit",
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Tourisme Alpes-de-Haute-Provence” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Selonnet (3.3 km), Le Grand Puy (5.5 km), Montclar les 2 Vallées (6 km)
Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Chabanon?
Chabanon sits at 1,605 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,028 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Chabanon have?
Chabanon has 26 km of pistes served by 12 lifts (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Chabanon?
The longest piste is Retour Télésiège: 2 km (green run), for 222 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 Chabanon?
The highest lift, Tete Grosse (platter lift), tops out at 2,029 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Chabanon have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 13 installations at Chabanon (1 chairlift, 11 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 8,949 people per hour, of which 1,400 for Fil Neige alone. The fleet spans 1969 to 2024, an average age of 38 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 do I get to Chabanon?
By road, Chabanon is 2 hr 48 from Marseille (205 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Chorges, 55 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 Marseille-Provence, 2 hr 45 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Chabanon?
8 hr 43 for 719 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is Chabanon good for beginners and families?
65% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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