Getting to Issarbe
Issarbe is 1 h 33 by road from Pau (69 km), 9 h 42 from Paris, 55 min from Lurbe-Saint-Christau railway station.
Issarbe is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in the commune of Lanne-en-Barétous. The village sits at 1,500 m.
Getting to Issarbe
By road
- From Pau : 1 h 33 · 69 km
- From Toulouse : 3 h 43 · 264 km
- From Bordeaux : 3 h 49 · 279 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 33 · 459 km
- From Montpellier : 6 h 01 · 494 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 7 h 36 · 632 km
- From Marseille : 7 h 41 · 657 km
- From Valence : 7 h 51 · 692 km
- From Grenoble : 8 h 48 · 783 km
- From Lyon : 8 h 58 · 791 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 9 h 01 · 670 km
- From Nice : 9 h 19 · 815 km
- From Chambéry : 9 h 33 · 842 km
- From Paris : 9 h 42 · 857 km
- From Annecy : 9 h 58 · 901 km
- From Genève : 10 h 28 · 939 km
- From Dijon : 10 h 31 · 928 km
- From Besançon : 11 h 07 · 987 km
- From Nancy : 12 h 38 · 1139 km
- From Strasbourg : 13 h 30 · 1224 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Lurbe-Saint-Christau station
halt · then 55 min by road (37 km)
Nearest main station: Pau, 1 h 33 by road.
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
- Pau-Pyrénées (PUF) : 1 h 50 by road · 78 km
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées (LDE) : 2 h 08 by road · 114 km
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By electric car
No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 September 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute 64 (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) ↗ — passes, snow chains, winter maintenance
- Bison Futé (national) ↗
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.