Getting to La Chapelle d'Abondance
La Chapelle d'Abondance is 1 h 14 by road from Genève (66 km), 6 h 50 from Paris, 37 min from Thonon-les-Bains railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
La Chapelle d'Abondance is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 999 m and the ski area rises to 1,571 m, a skiable vertical of 577 m.
Getting to La Chapelle d'Abondance
By road
- From Genève : 1 h 14 · 66 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 43 · 114 km
- From Chambéry : 2 h 10 · 156 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 44 · 212 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 58 · 218 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Besançon : 2 h 58 · 197 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 42 · 292 km
- From Valence : 3 h 42 · 314 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 50 · 273 km
- From Strasbourg : 4 h 24 · 371 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 41 · 388 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 33 · 444 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 49 · 518 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 54 · 528 km
- From Nice : 6 h 44 · 527 km
- From Paris : 6 h 50 · 610 km
- From Perpignan : 7 h 11 · 666 km
- From Toulouse : 8 h 07 · 752 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 39 · 775 km
- From Pau : 10 h 01 · 942 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Thonon-les-Bains station
regional station · then 37 min by road (33 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 h 41 by road.
- From Thonon-les-Bains station (stop « LES ARTS ») : 12 — Thonon Les Arts ↔ Châtel Linga (EVIAN - ÉVA'D), 54 min to the “LES PLAGNES” stop — 6 departures a day on weekdays, 4 a day at weekends · first 06:45, last 19:15 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, Oùra (agrégat Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 38 by road · 74 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 2 h 14 by road · 155 km
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By electric car
1 charging location within 2 km
2charging points · up to24 kW
- LA CHAPELLE D'ABONDANCE - Parking de l'église · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 0.4 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute 74 (Haute-Savoie) ↗ — 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.