Combloux

Northern Alps Linked area Évasion Mont-Blanc Updated on 23 September 2026
1,181 mVillage altitude
1,930 mTop of the ski area
12Ski lifts
€52.50Adult day pass · 2026-2027

Not retained (conflicting sources): km of alpine pistes.

Combloux is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. A mountain village in the French Alps, it is also popular as a ski resort. Combloux is located 4 km (2.5 mi) from Megève and 30 km (19 mi) from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.

Combloux — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Live webcams

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Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.

Snow, opening and weather

Snow report →

0 of 108 pistes open · 2 of 54 lifts · recorded on 15 October at 11:22, official source

0 cmSnow at the bottom
95 cmSnow at the top
31 March 2026Last snowfall

Right now at the MONT ARBOIS station (1,833 m)

Source: Météo-France, MONT ARBOIS weather station, 5 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 292 cm of fresh snow, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “COMBLOUX” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 27 measured winters →

3-day forecast

Village 1,181 m · top 1,930 m

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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.

7-day forecast →

SkiRadar ratings

How ratings are computed →Computed on 14 October 2026

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.

  1. SnowCan you count on the snow?
    2.5 / 5

    Top of the ski area: 1,930 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,020 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 47 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%

  2. Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?
    4 / 5

    Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 445 km · Lifts: 12

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    3 / 5

    Adult day pass: €52.50 · Adult 6-day pass: €262.50

  4. Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?
    3.5 / 5

    Share of green and blue pistes: 70% · Magic carpets: 1 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0 · Famille Plus label

  5. AccessIs it easy to get to?
    4.5 / 5

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 22 · Nearest railway station: 11 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 11 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 20

  6. Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?
    2.5 / 5

    Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 14 · Upcoming events: 6 · Collective tourist beds: 1,016 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?
    2 / 5

    5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 67% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 1 · Adult day pass: €52.50 — 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).

€262.50 6 days€45 Child, 1 day€18 Beginner, 1 day€19.50 Pedestrian, 1 day€65 1 day · Evasion Mont-Blanc pass (linked area)

Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗

Skiable vertical
910 m
Cross-country skiing
11 named trails — 43 km of marked loops (32 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Megeve Mont Arbois area, 2.1 km from the resort
Snowpark
Yes

Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) . In a linked ski area the map cannot tell where the resort ends: its own km stay “n/a” until the resort declares them.

The ski area in figures

Measured on 7 October 2026
3 kmLongest piste — Mandarines (green), 530 m of vertical
548 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,755 → 1,207 m, 2 km
1,754 mHighest lift top — TSD du Pertuis (detachable chairlift), national lift register
14,156Total lift capacity, people per hour — 12 installations: 3 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
29 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1960, newest 2022
3,000Biggest lift, people per hour — TSD du Pertuis (detachable chairlift, 2007)
77 kmTotal length of lifts — 85 lifts mapped
9,335 haSki area boundary (OSM)
2,093Inhabitants — Combloux (INSEE 74083)

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.

Source: national register of mechanical lifts (STRMTG, CAIRN), fleet as of 1 January 2025 — lifts attributed to Combloux only (“COMBLOUX”), magic carpets included.

Staying and hiring gear in Combloux

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Collective accommodation

1,016 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels

  • 5 hotels · 135 rooms (2 × 4★, 1 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
  • 3 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,016 bed spaces

Commune: Combloux · 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.
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Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
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Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
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Ski hire

Skiset UK
Skiset’s UK site: ski hire in the resort shops, booked in English, paid in pounds.
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Gear & equipment

Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
Browse the shop
Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
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Picture
Ski and snowboard jackets, pants and accessories — a French brand.
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All about staying in Combloux →

Beyond skiing at Combloux

Without skis on — 1 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run

Toboggan runs

Ice rink

Swimming pool

Spa and thermal baths

Paragliding

Museum

  • Musée de l'Ermitage du Calvaire · Megève · 4.6 km away
  • Château des Rubins - Observatoire des Alpes · Sallanches · 4.6 km away
  • Pile Pont Expo · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 5.1 km away
  • La Cure · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 5.4 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. Lines marked OpenStreetMap come from the map, within 3 km — opening times on site. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.

Ski schools and practical information

Ski school

ESF Combloux

📞 04 50 58 63 02

🌐 esf-combloux.com

128 instructors

🇬🇧 98 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available

🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in Combloux →

Resort contacts and documents

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 Combloux and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October

Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring

The resorts for off-piste skiing →
0 Marked off-piste itineraries
15 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 Combloux — up to 1,100 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
Sommet des Salles · Depuis Ormaret par les pistesn/a · F660 m1,080 → 1,757 mE2.9 km
Col du Jaillet · Par la Croix des Salles1.3 · F500 m1,249 → 1,723 mW3.9 km
Petit Croisse Baulet · Depuis Megève ou Combloux1.3 · E1 · F600 m1,402 → 2,009 mSE4.2 km
Croisse Baulet · Depuis Cordon-Cornillon2.3 · E1 · PD+1,100 m1,150 → 2,236 mSE5.1 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 ↗

Official piste map

No downloadable piste map published by the resort.

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 Combloux

From Paris: 6 hr 22 (599 km) by road.

By road

  • From Genève: 55 min · 64 km
  • From Annecy: 1 hr 08 · 88 km
  • From Chambéry: 1 hr 20 · 90 km
  • From Grenoble: 1 hr 36 · 120 km
  • From Lyon: 2 hr 30 · 207 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence: 2 hr 39 · 212 km
  • From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 04 · 238 km
  • From Besançon: 3 hr 23 · 238 km
  • From Dijon: 3 hr 30 · 320 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 12 · 375 km
  • From Montpellier: 4 hr 46 · 417 km
  • From Marseille: 4 hr 52 · 426 km
  • From Strasbourg: 5 hr 19 · 456 km
  • From Nancy: 5 hr 33 · 524 km
  • From Nice: 5 hr 45 · 483 km
  • From Perpignan: 6 hr 08 · 565 km
  • From Paris: 6 hr 22 · 599 km
  • From Toulouse: 7 hr 04 · 651 km
  • From Bordeaux: 8 hr 11 · 764 km
  • From Pau: 8 hr 59 · 841 km

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

By train

Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station

regional station · then 11 min drive (8 km)

Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 06 by road.

  • From Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station (stop “Gare”): line Y83 — SALLANCHES → PRAZ → FLUMET (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 10 min to the “Graniteur” stop — 11 departures a day on weekdays, 13 a day at weekends · first 07:00, last 19:30 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗

Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.

By plane

  • Genève (GVA): 1 hr 20 by road · 73 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 31 by road · 98 km

Take me there

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Charging an electric car

1 charging station within 2 km

3 charging points · up to 24 kW

  • COMBLOUX - Route de la mairie · EASYCHARGE · 3 points · 24 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.

Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Frequently asked questions

How high is Combloux?

Combloux sits at 1,181 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,930 m.

What is the longest piste in Combloux?

The longest piste is Mandarines: 3 km (green run), for 530 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 Combloux?

The highest lift, TSD du Pertuis (detachable chairlift), tops out at 1,754 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.

How many lifts does Combloux have, and what is their capacity?

The French national register of mechanical lifts records 12 installations at Combloux (3 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 14,156 people per hour, of which 3,000 for TSD du Pertuis alone. The fleet spans 1960 to 2022, an average age of 29 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 much is a lift pass in Combloux?

The adult day pass costs €52.50 and the 6-day pass €262.50 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list). The Evasion Mont-Blanc pass, covering the whole linked area, costs €65 a day.

How do I get to Combloux?

By road, Combloux is 55 min from Genève (64 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Sallanches - Combloux - Megève, 11 min by road from the resort. From Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station, line Y83 — SALLANCHES → PRAZ → FLUMET (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie) reaches the “Graniteur” stop in 10 min, 11 departures a day on weekdays, 13 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 20 away.

How long is the drive from Paris to Combloux?

6 hr 22 for 599 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 Combloux?

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 292 cm of fresh snow, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “COMBLOUX” station. This verdict rests on 27 winters of Météo-France measurements (1993-2023); in season the daily report prevails.

Is Combloux good for beginners and families?

The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.

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