Cordon
1,031 mBottom of the pistes
1,538 mTop of the ski area
7Ski lifts
€65Adult day pass · Evasion Mont-Blanc · 2026-2027
Not retained (conflicting sources): km of alpine pistes.
Cordon is a French commune situated in the département of Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Because of the panoramic view of the massif du Mont-Blanc, this village is nicknamed the "balcony of Mont Blanc". Its inhabitants are the Cordonnants.
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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 COMBLOUX station (1,183 m)
Source: Météo-France, COMBLOUX weather station, 3.2 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 17 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 164 cm of fresh snow, measured over 13 winters at the Météo-France “REPOSOIR (LE)” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 13 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,031 m · top 1,538 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.
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.
- 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%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 445 km · Lifts: 7
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €65 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.15/km · Adult 6-day pass: €324.50 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 68% · Magic carpets: 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- 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
- 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: 6 · Collective tourist beds: 0 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- 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: €65 — 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).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€324.50 6 days
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Evasion Mont-Blanc pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Combloux. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 507 m
- 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
- Snowpark
- Yes
Ski-area figures — bottom: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, 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 20261 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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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 ↗
Stay & accommodation
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Gear & equipment
Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
Beyond skiing at Cordon
Without skis on — 2 km of snowshoe and walking trails
Toboggan runs
- Piste sur neige "La Luge" · Demi-Quartier · 6.1 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire olympique · Megève · 6.4 km away
- Patinoire de plein air · Megève · 6.7 km away
Swimming pool
- Centre aquatique Sallanches Mont Blanc · Sallanches · 3.3 km away
- Piscines intérieures · Megève · 6.5 km away
- Piscine olympique extérieure · Megève · 6.5 km away
- Pataugeoire intérieure · Megève · 6.5 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Saunas · Megève · 6.4 km away
- Hammam · Megève · 6.4 km away
- Pure Altitude Longevity Spa du Lodge Park · Megève · 6.7 km away
- Les Thermes de Saint-Gervais - Les cures thermales · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 8 km away
Paragliding
- Megève Parapente · Megève · 6.8 km away
- Elévation Parapente · Passy · 7.6 km away
- Itinér’Air Parapente · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 8.7 km away
- A2L-Parapente · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 8.7 km away
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
- Cinéma La Caméra · Passy · 8.1 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.
Ski schools and practical information
Tourist office
Office de tourisme de Cordon
📍 Place du Mont-Blanc, 74700 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.
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 0 Marked off-piste itineraries
9 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 Cordon — up to 1,341 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Miaz · Depuis le pont de la Flée | 3.1 · E1 · AD | 1,330 m | 2,336 m | n/a | 2.4 km |
| Cabane du Petit Pâtre · Depuis le Péray | 1.3 | 640 m | 1,276 → 1,915 m | n/a | 2.7 km |
| Tête Noire (Cordon) · En boucle par la Croix du Planet | 1.3 · E1 · PD- | 562 m | 1,276 → 1,691 m | E | 2.7 km |
| Croisse Baulet · Traversée face E depuis Cordon | n/a · PD+ | 1,000 m | 1,150 → 2,236 m | NE | 2.9 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 ↗
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Official piste map
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 · 372 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 49 · 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
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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 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Cordon?
The Cordon pistes start at 1,031 m, and its ski area rises to 1,538 m.
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 for the Evasion Mont-Blanc linked area costs €65 and the 6-day pass €324.50 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Combloux).
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?
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 17 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 164 cm of fresh snow, measured over 13 winters at the Météo-France “REPOSOIR (LE)” station. This verdict rests on 13 winters of Météo-France measurements (1996-2018); in season the daily report prevails.
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