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Cordon

Northern Alps Altitude 580 – 1,538 m Linked area Évasion Mont-Blanc Checked on 18 September 2026
580 mVillage altitude
1,538 mTop of the ski area
30 kmAlpine pistes
14Ski lifts
€30Adult day pass · 2026-2027

Cordon is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 580 m and the ski area rises to 1,538 m, a skiable vertical of 507 m.

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Cordon — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The area offers 30 km of alpine pistes, 44 marked pistes (16 green, 14 blue, 12 red, 2 black), 14 ski lifts, plus a snowpark. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.

Cordon belongs to the linked Évasion Mont-Blanc area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.

Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 1 km (L'Herney) and the highest lift tops out at 2,476 m.

Access: 52 min by road from Genève and 8 min from Sallanches - Combloux - Megève railway station.

6 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).

SkiRadar ratings

How ratings are computed →Computed on 18 September 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 322 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

    Top of the ski area: 1,538 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,031 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 17 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 93%

  2. Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?
    3.5 / 5

    Km of pistes at the resort: 30 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 123 km · Lifts: 14 · Balance between piste levels: 89%

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    4 / 5

    Adult day pass: €30 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.24/km · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area

  4. Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?
    2 / 5

    Share of green and blue pistes: 68% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 0 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0

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

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 23 · Nearest railway station: 8 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 6 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 17

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

    Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 13 · Upcoming events: 5 · Collective tourist beds: 0 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?
    2.5 / 5

    5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 2 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 63% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €30 — 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).

Snow and opening

7-day forecast → Snow report →
Status unknown

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 580 m · top 1,538 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.

Average snow depth by month

Good snow from January to April: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.2 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November15 cmInsufficient · 22%
  2. December63 cmVariable · 77%
  3. January103 cmGood skiing · 95%
  4. February126 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March126 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April76 cmGood skiing · 84%
  7. May22 cmInsufficient · 25%

30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.

  • Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
  • Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
  • Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two
Estimate from the ERA5-Land reanalysis (Open-Meteo), about 9 km grid at 911 m. Not a resort measurement: during the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of time with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

13 complete winters measured, from 1996-1997 to 2017-2018 — on average 17 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “REPOSOIR (LE)” station (975 m, 11.8 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec9 cmInsufficient · 8 %
  2. 16-31 Dec10 cmInsufficient · 7 %
  3. 1-15 Jan12 cmInsufficient · 8 %
  4. 16-31 Jan18 cmInsufficient · 20 %
  5. 1-15 Feb21 cmInsufficient · 26 %
  6. 16-29 Feb18 cmInsufficient · 24 %
  7. 1-15 Mar13 cmInsufficient · 16 %
  8. 16-31 Mar4 cmInsufficient · 7 %
  9. 1-15 Apr1 cmInsufficient · 0 %
Best winter of the series
1998-1999 — 76 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2000-2001 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 164 cm a winter on average, spread over 21 days of snowfall. Measured over 19 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
42 cm — 2016-2017
Snowiest winter
1998-1999 — 356 cm
Leanest winter
1996-1997 — 57 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “REPOSOIR (LE)” station (975 m, 11.8 km away), from the open “Daily climatological data” dataset (Open Licence 2.0). The season is counted from 1 December to 15 April; only winters with at least 95 % of those 136 days measured are kept, so no figure here rests on a handful of readings. The reading is taken at 975 m, well below the top of the ski area (1538 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails. Snowfall figures are the fresh snow depth over 24 hours recorded at the same station (the HNEIGEF column): a day of snowfall is a day with 1 cm or more, and only winters measured 95 % of the time on that column are counted — which is why the record can be longer or shorter than the one for snow on the ground. More snow always falls than remains: some melts, settles or blows away.

The ski area

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44 pistes, by level — 30 km

16 green14 blue12 red2 black
Skiable vertical
507 m (1,031 m → 1,538 m)
Lifts
1 gondola, 1 chairlift, 11 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
Cross-country skiing
11 named trails — 43 km of marked loops (32 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Megeve Mont Arbois area, 4.7 km from the resort
See the trails(11)
TrailLevelLength
Megeve-Bettex-St.Nicolasintermediate20 km
Livraz - Cote2000black4.5 km
Planelletred3.6 km
Javenblack2.5 km
Livrazgreen2.5 km
Planayblack2 km
La Croixblue1.8 km
Le Laitblue1.7 km
Odiern/a1.6 km
Le Mazred1.5 km
Petit Vorasset · Megeve Mont Arboiseasy1.3 km
OpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
Snowpark
Yes
Without skis
2 km of snowshoe and walking trails
Piste aspect
N 23% · E 69% · S 1% · W 8% (descent direction of 47 OSM pistes, terrain model)
Mountain restaurants
Chez Albert (1196 m)

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 (2026-2027) detail →

Adult passPrice
1 day€30
Child, 1 day€25

Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Price list of the linked area, read on Portes du Mont-Blanc. Official price list ↗

The ski area in figures

Measured on 9 September 2026
1 kmLongest piste — L'Herney (blue), 299 m of vertical
299 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,536 → 1,237 m, 1 km
1,538 mHighest lift top — TK de l'Herney 1 (platter lift), national lift register
5,555Total lift capacity, people per hour — 7 installations: 7 drag lifts
34 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1983, newest 2005
900Biggest lift, people per hour — TK de Frébouge (platter lift, 1990)
63 kmTotal length of lifts — 69 lifts mapped
9,517 haSki area boundary (OSM)
998Inhabitants — Cordon (INSEE 74089)

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 Cordon only (“CORDON”), magic carpets included.

Staying and hiring gear in Cordon

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Stay & accommodation

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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VVF
Family holiday villages, kids’ clubs included.
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Ski hire

Sport 2000 Location
Skis, boots and helmets booked online, collected in a resort shop.
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Skiset
Network of ski-hire shops in the resorts.
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Live webcams

All webcams (8) →
La Livraz · Megève Open at the operator ↗
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Panoramique vidéole lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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La placele lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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Le Mont Blancle lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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Le Mont-Blancle lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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Arrivée Piste du Darbelinle lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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Arrivée téléskis de l’Herneyle lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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RochebruneMegève

Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 12 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 Cordon

From Paris: 6 hr 18 (596 km) by road.

By road

  • From Genève: 52 min · 61 km
  • From Annecy: 1 hr 04 · 85 km
  • From Chambéry: 1 hr 27 · 95 km
  • From Grenoble: 1 hr 44 · 124 km
  • From Lyon: 2 hr 26 · 204 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence: 2 hr 47 · 217 km
  • From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 04 · 263 km
  • From Besançon: 3 hr 20 · 235 km
  • From Dijon: 3 hr 27 · 317 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 09 · 374 km
  • From Montpellier: 4 hr 54 · 422 km
  • From Marseille: 4 hr 59 · 431 km
  • From Strasbourg: 5 hr 15 · 452 km
  • From Nancy: 5 hr 30 · 520 km
  • From Nice: 5 hr 50 · 485 km
  • From Perpignan: 6 hr 16 · 569 km
  • From Paris: 6 hr 18 · 596 km
  • From Toulouse: 7 hr 12 · 656 km
  • From Bordeaux: 8 hr 07 · 761 km
  • From Pau: 9 hr 06 · 846 km

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

By train

Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station

regional station · then 8 min drive (5 km)

Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 02 by road.

  • From Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station (stop “Gare”): line Y86 — SALLANCHES → CORDON (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 8 min to the “Les Combes” stop — 6 departures a day on weekdays, 6 a day at weekends · first 06:55, last 18:27 · 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 17 by road · 69 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 35 by road · 126 km

Take me there

These links open the app with Cordon as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.

Charging an electric car

1 charging station within 2 km

2 charging points · up to 22 kW

  • CORDON - Parking Centre Village · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.4 km

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.

Off-piste & ski touring

The resorts for off-piste skiing →
0 Marked off-piste itineraries
9 km Ski touring routes
507 m Skiable vertical · top 1,538 m
Safety. Off-piste terrain is neither marked nor made safe by the resort: a transceiver, a shovel, a probe and reading the avalanche bulletin are the minimum — and going with a mountain guide is better still. Today's avalanche risk (Météo-France scale of 1 to 5) will appear here during the season.

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

Resorts for ski touring →

12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Cordon — up to 1,341 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
La Miaz · Depuis le pont de la Flée3.1 · E1 · AD1,330 m2,336 mn/a2.4 km
Cabane du Petit Pâtre · Depuis le Péray1.3640 m1,276 → 1,915 mn/a2.7 km
Tête Noire (Cordon) · En boucle par la Croix du Planet1.3 · E1 · PD-562 m1,276 → 1,691 mE2.7 km
Croisse Baulet · Traversée face E depuis Cordonn/a · PD+1,000 m1,150 → 2,236 mNE2.9 km
Cabane du Petit Pâtre · Depuis les Chars2.1650 m1,267 → 1,915 mE2.9 km
Arête de la Besse · Couloir S depuis les Frédysn/a · E2 · AD1,260 m990 → 2,205 mS3.1 km
Croisse Baulet · Tour et face W, depuis Cordon4.1 · E2 · AD+1,000 m1,240 → 2,236 mW3.2 km
Col de Niard · Par les Seytets et la cabane du Petit Pâtren/a · F840 m1,207 → 1,915 mE3.3 km
Passage de la Grande Forclaz · Par le vallon de Coeur3.1 · E1 · AD-1,341 m970 → 2,311 mSE3.4 km
Croisse Baulet · Depuis Cordon-Cornillon2.3 · E1 · PD+1,100 m1,150 → 2,236 mSE3.5 km
Sommet des Salles · Depuis Ormaret par les pistesn/a · F660 m1,080 → 1,757 mE3.6 km
Petit Croisse Baulet · Depuis Cordon par le Col de Jaillet2.1 · E1 · PD-900 m1,125 → 2,009 mE3.8 km
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 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 Cordon

Toboggan runs

Ice rink

Swimming pool

Spa and thermal baths

Paragliding

Museum

  • Château des Rubins - Observatoire des Alpes · Sallanches · 2.4 km away
  • Musée de l'Ermitage du Calvaire · Megève · 7 km away
  • Pile Pont Expo · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 8.2 km away
  • La Cure · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 8.5 km away

Cinema

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

  • 5 hotels · 100 rooms (3 × 4★, 2 × 3★)
  • 1 campsite · 25 pitches

Commune: Cordon · 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 Cordon

📍 Place du Mont-Blanc, 74700 Cordon

📞 +33 4 50 58 01 57

🌐 cordon.fr

Ski school

ESF Cordon

📞 04 50 58 13 63

🌐 esf-cordon.fr

13 instructors

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in Cordon →

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 Cordon

All events →

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

Portes du Mont-Blanc 4 kmCombloux 4 kmMegève 7 kmLa Giettaz-en-Aravis 9 kmSaint-Gervais-les-Bains 9 kmDomaine de Praz sur Arly 10 km

Frequently asked questions

How high is Cordon?

Cordon sits at 580 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,538 m.

How many kilometres of pistes does Cordon have?

Cordon has 30 km of pistes served by 14 lifts, within the linked Évasion Mont-Blanc area (OpenStreetMap survey).

What is the longest piste in Cordon?

The longest piste is L'Herney: 1 km (blue run), for 299 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 Cordon?

The highest lift, TK de l'Herney 1 (platter lift), tops out at 1,538 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.

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

The French national register of mechanical lifts records 7 installations at Cordon (7 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 5,555 people per hour, of which 900 for TK de Frébouge alone. The fleet spans 1983 to 2005, an average age of 34 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 Cordon?

The adult day pass costs €30 (2026-2027, read on the official price list, shared with Portes du Mont-Blanc).

How do I get to Cordon?

By road, Cordon is 52 min from Genève (61 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Sallanches - Combloux - Megève, 8 min by road from the resort. From Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station, line Y86 — SALLANCHES → CORDON (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie) reaches the “Les Combes” stop in 8 min, 6 departures a day on weekdays, 6 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 17 away.

How long is the drive from Paris to Cordon?

6 hr 18 for 596 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 Cordon?

Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to ten winters of reanalysis (estimate); in season the daily report prevails.

Is Cordon good for beginners and families?

68% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.

Full page in French. The French page carries the editorial guides and a few extra readings; every figure, webcam and price on this page is the same one. Cordon in French →

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