Courchevel

Northern Alps Linked area Les 3 Vallées Updated on 23 September 2026
1,850 mVillage altitude
3,200 mTop of the ski area
600 kmLinked pistes · Les 3 Vallées
66Ski lifts
€84.20Adult day pass · Les 3 Vallées · 2026-2027

Courchevel is a French Alps ski resort located in the Tarentaise Valley. It is a part of Les Trois Vallées, the largest linked ski areas in the world.

Courchevel — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Live webcams

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Col de la Loze Open at the operator ↗
ChenusSkaping
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Each player is the camera operator’s own, loaded only when you ask for it — it may set its own trackers.

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 →

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.

Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 127 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 481 cm of fresh snow, measured over 41 winters at the Météo-France “La Plagne” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 41 measured winters →

3-day forecast

Village 1,850 m · top 3,200 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 11 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?
    4.5 / 5

    Top of the ski area: 3,200 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,850 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 127 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%

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

    Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 600 km · Lifts: 66

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    2.5 / 5

    Adult day pass: €84.20 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.14/km · Adult 6-day pass: €421 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area

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

    Share of green and blue pistes: 69% · Magic carpets: 13 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2 · Famille Plus label

  5. AccessIs it easy to get to?
    2.5 / 5

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 49 · Nearest railway station: 28 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 36

  6. Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?
    3 / 5

    Bars and pubs: 6 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 46 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 1,014 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?
    4.5 / 5

    5-star hotels: 3 · 4-star hotels: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 79% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 6 · Adult day pass: €84.20 — 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).

€421 6 days

Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Les 3 Vallées pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Les Menuires. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗

Skiable vertical
1,350 m
Cross-country skiing
7 named trails — 69 km of marked loops (21 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), right by the resort
Snowpark
1 mapped zone, 2.3 km from the resort — Courchevel Aventure

Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); km of the linked area: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept); 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
7 kmLongest piste — Biolley (blue), 334 m of vertical
1,052 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,489 → 1,437 m, 4 km
2,698 mHighest lift top — Saulire (aerial tramway), national lift register
81,749Total lift capacity, people per hour — 66 installations: 1 aerial tramway, 10 gondolas, 17 chairlifts, 24 drag lifts, 13 magic carpets, 1 funicular or similar
31 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1956, newest 2024
3,300Biggest lift, people per hour — Biollay (detachable chairlift, 2012)
108 kmTotal length of lifts — 92 lifts mapped
15,583 haSki area boundary (OSM)
2,290Inhabitants — Courchevel (INSEE 73227)

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 Courchevel only (“COURCHEVEL”), magic carpets included.

Staying and hiring gear in Courchevel

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Collective accommodation

1,014 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels

  • 47 hotels · 2,076 rooms (23 × 5★, 12 × 4★, 7 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
  • 2 holiday villages and family centres · 386 bed spaces
  • 5 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 628 bed spaces

Commune: Courchevel · 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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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.
Browse the shop
Picture
Ski and snowboard jackets, pants and accessories — a French brand.
Browse the shop

All about staying in Courchevel →

Beyond skiing at Courchevel

Without skis on — 6 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 7 sledging runs

Toboggan runs

Ice rink

Swimming pool

  • Aquamotion · Courchevel · 1 km away
  • Piscine en plein-air de la Tania · Courchevel · 3.6 km away
  • Parc Olympique · Les Allues · 5.8 km away
  • Piscine municipale · Champagny-en-Vanoise · 6.4 km away

Spa and thermal baths

Dog sledding

Paragliding

Museum

Cinema

  • Cinéma Méribel-Mottaret · Les Allues · 6.2 km away
  • Cinéma Le Doron · Brides-les-Bains · 6.7 km away
  • Megarama Le Tremplin · OpenStreetMap

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 Courchevel 1850

📞 04 79 08 07 72

🌐 esfcourchevel.com

453 instructors

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

🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in Courchevel →

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 COURCHEVEL TOURISME and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October

Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring

The resorts for off-piste skiing →
10 Marked off-piste itineraries · 8 km
0 km Ski touring routes

Named itineraries: Tétras · Bouc Blanc · Couloir Tournier · Grand Couloir · Couloir « Émile Allais » · Couloir « Sous le téléphérique »

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 Courchevel — up to 1,510 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
Aiguille du Fruit · Couloir N3.3 · E1 · AD+550 m1,850 → 2,926 mN1.5 km
Croix des Verdons / Dent de Burgin · Couloir Ouest4.1 · E1 · PD1,240 m1,440 → 2,650 mW3.6 km
La Saulire · Par les pistes de Courchevel2.1 · E1 · PD900 m1,850 → 2,740 mN4 km
Rocher de Plassa · Tour de la Grande Val par le Rocher de la Plassa2.2 · E3 · PD1,510 m1,760 → 2,867 mn/a4.2 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

Open the piste map (PDF, 606 KB) ↗

Published by Les 3 Vallées (ski-area operator) · link checked on 10 October 2026 · official page

Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.

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 Courchevel

From Paris: 7 hr 12 (670 km) by road.

By road

  • From Chambéry: 1 hr 24 · 101 km
  • From Annecy: 1 hr 40 · 95 km
  • From Grenoble: 1 hr 41 · 130 km
  • From Genève: 2 hr 22 · 141 km
  • From Lyon: 2 hr 35 · 200 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence: 2 hr 44 · 223 km
  • From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 08 · 248 km
  • From Dijon: 4 hr 27 · 401 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 28 · 365 km
  • From Besançon: 4 hr 41 · 313 km
  • From Montpellier: 4 hr 51 · 428 km
  • From Marseille: 4 hr 56 · 437 km
  • From Perpignan: 6 hr 13 · 576 km
  • From Nice: 6 hr 18 · 515 km
  • From Nancy: 6 hr 34 · 611 km
  • From Strasbourg: 6 hr 36 · 531 km
  • From Toulouse: 7 hr 09 · 662 km
  • From Paris: 7 hr 12 · 670 km
  • From Bordeaux: 8 hr 26 · 755 km
  • From Pau: 9 hr 03 · 852 km

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

By train

Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station

regional station · then 28 min drive (24 km)

Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 23 by road.

No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 2026): ask the resort about a private shuttle or a taxi.

Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.

By plane

  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 36 by road · 109 km
  • Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 14 by road · 176 km

Take me there

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

Charging an electric car

2 charging stations within 2 km

4 charging points · up to 50 kW

  • AVIA VOLT - Courchevel · Bump · 2 points · 50 kW · 0.5 km
  • Alpine résidences Courchevel - Manali Lodge - powered by DRIVECO · DRIVECO Partner Network · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.7 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 Courchevel?

Courchevel sits at 1,850 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 3,200 m.

How many kilometres of pistes does Courchevel have?

From Courchevel you can ski 600 km of slopes across Les 3 Vallées, 66 lifts.

What is the longest piste in Courchevel?

The longest piste is Biolley: 7 km (blue run), for 334 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 Courchevel?

The highest lift, Saulire (aerial tramway), tops out at 2,698 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.

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

The French national register of mechanical lifts records 66 installations at Courchevel (1 aerial tramway, 10 gondolas, 17 chairlifts, 24 drag lifts, 13 magic carpets, 1 funicular or similar), for an authorised capacity of 81,749 people per hour, of which 3,300 for Biollay alone. The fleet spans 1956 to 2024, an average age of 31 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 Courchevel?

The adult day pass for the Les 3 Vallées linked area costs €84.20 and the 6-day pass €421 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Les Menuires).

How do I get to Courchevel?

By road, Courchevel is 1 hr 24 from Chambéry (101 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains, 28 min by road from the resort. No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables. The nearest airport is Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 36 away.

How long is the drive from Paris to Courchevel?

7 hr 12 for 670 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 Courchevel?

Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 127 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 481 cm of fresh snow, measured over 41 winters at the Météo-France “La Plagne” station. This verdict rests on 41 winters of Météo-France measurements (1981-2026); in season the daily report prevails.

Is Courchevel good for beginners and families?

The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.

Nearby resorts

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