Courchevel
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.

Live webcams
All webcams (8) →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.
Avalanche danger
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
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?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%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 600 km · Lifts: 66
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€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 2026Measured 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
The partners covering this resort, shown side by side, and the shop to kit out before you leave. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.
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
Gear & equipment
Beyond skiing at Courchevel
Without skis on — 6 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 7 sledging runs
Toboggan runs
- Piste de luge (Courchevel 1850 - Courchevel Village) · Courchevel · 0.2 km away
- Piste de luge Moriond Racing · Courchevel · 1.4 km away
Ice rink
- Curling (uniquement en hiver) · Pralognan-la-Vanoise · 8 km away
- Patinoire · Pralognan-la-Vanoise · 8.1 km away
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
- Aquamotion - SPA · Courchevel · 1 km away
- Les Thermes de Brides-Les-Bains · Brides-les-Bains · 6.6 km away
- Le Grand Spa Thermal · Brides-les-Bains · 6.7 km away
Dog sledding
- Génération Musher - Traîneau à chiens · Champagny-en-Vanoise · 9.9 km away
Paragliding
- TandemTOP Paragliding · Courchevel · 0.1 km away
- Team FBI Parapente Tandem · Courchevel · 2.1 km away
- DEJOUY Jean-Jacques - Parapente · Courchevel · 2.3 km away
- Smiles Parapente · Bozel · 3.4 km away
Museum
- Tour Sarrazine, musée · Bozel · 3.3 km away
- Musée des Allues · Les Allues · 6.3 km away
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
453 instructors
🇬🇧 385 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- COURCHEVEL TOURISME · 9 rue de l'église, 73120 · 0479080029 · info@courchevel.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- 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 →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 route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiguille du Fruit · Couloir N | 3.3 · E1 · AD+ | 550 m | 1,850 → 2,926 m | N | 1.5 km |
| Croix des Verdons / Dent de Burgin · Couloir Ouest | 4.1 · E1 · PD | 1,240 m | 1,440 → 2,650 m | W | 3.6 km |
| La Saulire · Par les pistes de Courchevel | 2.1 · E1 · PD | 900 m | 1,850 → 2,740 m | N | 4 km |
| Rocher de Plassa · Tour de la Grande Val par le Rocher de la Plassa | 2.2 · E3 · PD | 1,510 m | 1,760 → 2,867 m | n/a | 4.2 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
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
Open the piste map (PDF, 606 KB) ↗
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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