Getting to Gavarnie-Gèdre
Gavarnie-Gèdre is 1 h 44 by road from Pau (96 km), 9 h 38 from Paris, 58 min from Lourdes railway station.
Gavarnie-Gèdre is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Hautes-Pyrénées). The village sits at 1,812 m and the ski area rises to 2,258 m, a skiable vertical of 438 m.
Getting to Gavarnie-Gèdre
By road
- From Pau : 1 h 44 · 96 km
- From Toulouse : 3 h 00 · 233 km
- From Bordeaux : 3 h 45 · 306 km
- From Perpignan : 4 h 50 · 428 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 18 · 463 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 6 h 53 · 602 km
- From Marseille : 6 h 58 · 626 km
- From Valence : 7 h 08 · 661 km
- From Grenoble : 8 h 05 · 753 km
- From Lyon : 8 h 15 · 760 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 8 h 18 · 639 km
- From Nice : 8 h 36 · 784 km
- From Chambéry : 8 h 50 · 811 km
- From Annecy : 9 h 15 · 870 km
- From Paris : 9 h 38 · 883 km
- From Genève : 9 h 45 · 908 km
- From Dijon : 9 h 48 · 898 km
- From Besançon : 10 h 24 · 956 km
- From Nancy : 11 h 55 · 1108 km
- From Strasbourg : 12 h 47 · 1194 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Lourdes station
main station, high-speed rail · then 58 min by road (56 km)
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées (LDE) : 1 h 12 by road · 68 km
- Pau-Pyrénées (PUF) : 1 h 50 by road · 105 km
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By electric car
1 charging location within 2 km
2charging points · up to44 kW
- FR-S65-E65188-001 · Load Stations · 2points · 44 kW · 1.7 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain municipalities (French “loi Montagne II”).
Driving times: OpenStreetMap (OSRM); stations: SNCF open data; airports: Wikidata — read on 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.