Getting to Col de Plainpalais
Col de Plainpalais is 27 min by road from Chambéry (19 km), 6 h 16 from Paris, 25 min from Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux railway station.
Col de Plainpalais is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Les Déserts. The village sits at 1,173 m.
Getting to Col de Plainpalais
By road
- From Chambéry : 27 min · 19 km
- From Annecy : 46 min · 39 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 01 · 72 km
- From Genève : 1 h 15 · 77 km
- From Lyon : 1 h 39 · 118 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 2 h 04 · 165 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 12 · 167 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 31 · 319 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 32 · 287 km
- From Besançon : 3 h 35 · 250 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 11 · 369 km
- From Marseille : 4 h 16 · 379 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 30 · 467 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 33 · 517 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 38 · 530 km
- From Nice : 5 h 54 · 537 km
- From Paris : 6 h 16 · 588 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 29 · 604 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 30 · 673 km
- From Pau : 8 h 23 · 794 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux station
main station, high-speed rail · then 25 min by road (18 km)
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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 40 min by road · 27 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 1 h 23 by road · 109 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
- Savoie Route ↗ — 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.