Courchevel Le Praz
Off season1,264 mSector altitude
Courchevel Le Praz is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Courchevel. The village sits at 1,264 m and the ski area rises to 2,305 m, a skiable vertical of 955 m.
A sector of Courchevel
The Courchevel resort page →Courchevel Le Praz is one of the ski villages of Courchevel, and shares its ski area (66 lifts). The area, the lift passes, the piste map, the off-piste routes and the SkiRadar ratings are described once, on the Courchevel page — this page keeps what belongs to Courchevel Le Praz: its own altitude, its webcams, where to stay in the village, how to get there and its ski school.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Le SignalSkaping
ChenusSkaping
La CroisetteSkaping
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 25 September 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.
Right now at the LA PLAGNE_SAPC station (2,120 m)
Source: Météo-France, LA PLAGNE_SAPC weather station, 8.7 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 115 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 344 cm of fresh snow, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “Meribel Mottaret” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 27 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,264 m · top 2,305 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.
Staying and hiring gear in Courchevel Le Praz
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
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
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 Courchevel Le Praz
Without skis on — 4 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 7 sledging runs
Toboggan runs
- Piste de luge (Courchevel 1850 - Courchevel Village) · Courchevel · 2.1 km away
- Piste de luge Moriond Racing · Courchevel · 3 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire de Courchevel · 2 km away · OpenStreetMap
Swimming pool
- Piscine en plein-air de la Tania · Courchevel · 2 km away
- Aquamotion · Courchevel · 2.7 km away
- Piscine publique · Brides-les-Bains · 4.7 km away
- Parc Olympique · Les Allues · 6 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Aquamotion - SPA · Courchevel · 2.7 km away
- Le Grand Spa Thermal · Brides-les-Bains · 4.7 km away
- Les Thermes de Brides-Les-Bains · Brides-les-Bains · 4.7 km away
Paragliding
- Team FBI Parapente Tandem · Courchevel · 0.2 km away
- DEJOUY Jean-Jacques - Parapente · Courchevel · 1.2 km away
- TandemTOP Paragliding · Courchevel · 2.2 km away
- Smiles Parapente · Bozel · 2.9 km away
Museum
- Tour Sarrazine, musée · Bozel · 2.5 km away
- Musée des Allues · Les Allues · 5 km away
- Musée d'Histoire et d'Archéologie · Moûtiers · 8.8 km away
- Galerie d'exposition / Patio au Centre Culturel Marius Hudry · Moûtiers · 8.9 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Le Doron · Brides-les-Bains · 4.7 km away
- Cinéma Méribel-Mottaret · Les Allues · 7.2 km away
- Cinéma "Le Rex" · Moûtiers · 9.2 km away
- Megarama Le Tremplin · 2.2 km away · 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 La Tania
36 instructors
🇬🇧 33 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 25 September
Getting to Courchevel Le Praz
From Paris: 7 hr 02 (662 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 15 · 93 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 30 · 87 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 31 · 123 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 12 · 133 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 25 · 192 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 34 · 215 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 59 · 241 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 17 · 393 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 18 · 360 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 32 · 306 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 41 · 420 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 47 · 429 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 03 · 568 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 07 · 507 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 24 · 604 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 27 · 523 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 59 · 654 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 02 · 662 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 16 · 747 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 54 · 844 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station
regional station · then 18 min drive (17 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 13 by road.
- From Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station (stop “Gare Routiere”): line S65 — COURCHEVEL ↔ MOUTIERS (REGION - cars Région Savoie), 29 min to the “Grand Carrey” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays · first 13:00, last 17:45 · 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 26 by road · 101 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 04 by road · 168 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Courchevel Le Praz as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 September 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.
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.
Nearby resorts
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. Courchevel Le Praz in French →
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