Getting to Col de Jau

Col de Jau is 1 h 07 by road from Perpignan (68 km), 9 h 31 from Paris, 36 min from Ria-Sirach railway station.

Col de Jau is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Pyrénées-Orientales), in the commune of Mosset. The village sits at 1,502 m.

Getting to Col de Jau

By road

  • From Perpignan : 1 h 07 · 68 km
  • From Toulouse : 2 h 32 · 156 km
  • From Montpellier : 2 h 45 · 218 km
  • From Pau : 4 h 22 · 291 km
  • From Marseille : 4 h 25 · 381 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence : 4 h 35 · 416 km
  • From Bordeaux : 4 h 55 · 398 km
  • From Grenoble : 5 h 32 · 508 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 35 · 496 km
  • From Lyon : 5 h 42 · 515 km
  • From Saint-Étienne : 5 h 57 · 534 km
  • From Nice : 6 h 03 · 539 km
  • From Chambéry : 6 h 17 · 566 km
  • From Annecy : 6 h 42 · 625 km
  • From Genève : 7 h 12 · 663 km
  • From Dijon : 7 h 44 · 708 km
  • From Besançon : 8 h 15 · 768 km
  • From Paris : 9 h 31 · 832 km
  • From Nancy : 9 h 51 · 919 km
  • From Strasbourg : 10 h 39 · 1006 km

Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.

By train

Ria-Sirach station

halt · then 36 min by road (29 km)

Nearest main station: Perpignan, 1 h 06 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

  • Perpignan-Rivesaltes (PGF) : 1 h 11 by road · 71 km
  • Carcassonne-Salvaza (CCF) : 1 h 36 by road · 88 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

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.