La Colmiane
Off season1,500 mVillage altitude
1,800 mTop of the ski area
30 kmAlpine pistes
7Ski lifts
€25Adult day pass
La Colmiane is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Alpes-Maritimes), in the commune of Valdeblore. The village sits at 1,500 m and the ski area rises to 1,800 m, a skiable vertical of 400 m.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image.
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
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 23 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 147 cm of fresh snow, measured over 18 winters at the Météo-France “BEUIL-OBS” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 18 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,500 m · top 1,800 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?2 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,800 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,400 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 23 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 22%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 30 km · Lifts: 7 · Balance between piste levels: 95%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €25 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.83/km
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 56% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 7 hr 02 · Nearest railway station: 1 hr 17 · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 12
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 3 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 90 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · Spas and saunas: 1 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €25 — 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
All prices (child, family, season) →Price declared by the resort to ANMSM (the French ski resorts’ mayors association) — not the official price list, which prevails. Season not stated by the resort. ANMSM ↗
18 pistes, by level
5 green5 blue6 red2 black
- Skiable vertical
- 400 m
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (25 Sept) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 20261 kmLongest piste — Le Suc (blue), 134 m of vertical
292 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,773 → 1,480 m, 1 km
1,791 mHighest lift top — Le Pic (detachable chairlift), national lift register
5,257Total lift capacity, people per hour — 7 installations: 1 chairlift, 5 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
31 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1965, newest 2012
1,800Biggest lift, people per hour — Le Pic (detachable chairlift, 2011)
3 kmTotal length of lifts — 5 lifts mapped
307 haSki area boundary (OSM)
835Inhabitants — Valdeblore (INSEE 06153)
Measured 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 La Colmiane only (“COLMIANE (LA)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in La Colmiane
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Collective accommodation
90 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 3 hotels · 20 rooms (1 × 2★)
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 90 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 132 pitches
Commune: Valdeblore · 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.
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 La Colmiane
Toboggan runs
- Luge d'été de La Colmiane · 0.8 km away · OpenStreetMap
Spa and thermal baths
- Roquebilliere Thermal - Cure et Spa Thermal · Roquebillière · 6.9 km away
Cinema
- Espace Jean Grinda · Saint-Martin-Vésubie · 2.5 km away
- Salle de Cinéma · Valdeblore · 4.4 km away
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 Colmiane
37 instructors
🇬🇧 19 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme Métropolitain La Colmiane Valdeblore · La Colmiane, 06420 · 0493232590 · otcolmiane@orange.fr (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 Office de Tourisme Métropolitain La Colmiane Valdeblore and distributed by ANMSM · read on 25 September
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of La Colmiane — up to 1,300 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont Pétoumier · Par le Lac d'En Veillos | n/a · PD+ | 950 m | 1,750 → 2,604 m | SW | 1.9 km |
| Mont Pétoumier · Couloir SSW | n/a · AD- | 774 m | 1,830 → 2,604 m | S | 1.9 km |
| Mont Pétoumier · Par Baus de la Frema | n/a · PD | 1,104 m | 1,500 → 2,604 m | S | 2 km |
| Mont Pépoiri · Par le Lac d'En Veillos | 2.2 · E2 | 634 m | 2,040 → 2,674 m | SW | 2.4 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
Not a piste. Neither marked, nor patrolled, nor secured: transceiver, shovel, probe, the day’s avalanche bulletin and, better still, a guide. Ski grade (1.1–5.6) = steepness and commitment; exposure (E1–E4) = consequence of a fall.
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 September 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
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 La Colmiane
From Paris: 10 hr 46 (989 km) by road.
By road
- From Nice: 1 hr 17 · 70 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 18 · 254 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 40 · 383 km
- From Valence: 4 hr 53 · 427 km
- From Grenoble: 5 hr 50 · 519 km · avoids Col de la Bonette, closed in winter
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon: 6 hr 00 · 527 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 01 · 531 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 6 hr 15 · 546 km
- From Chambéry: 6 hr 50 · 550 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 57 · 617 km
- From Annecy: 7 hr 19 · 597 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Genève: 7 hr 35 · 605 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 7 hr 47 · 690 km
- From Dijon: 8 hr 01 · 719 km
- From Besançon: 8 hr 33 · 605 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 52 · 807 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 21 · 859 km
- From Nancy: 10 hr 09 · 930 km
- From Strasbourg: 10 hr 12 · 806 km
- From Paris: 10 hr 46 · 989 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
L'Ariane La Trinité station
halt · then 1 hr 17 drive (72 km)
Nearest main station: Nice, 1 hr 18 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 20 September 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
- Nice-Côte d’Azur (NCE): 1 hr 12 by road · 66 km
- Cuneo (CUF): 3 hr 57 by road · 217 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
4 charging points · up to 22 kW
- Valdeblore - Col de la Colmiane · IZIVIA · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- Valdeblore - Saint Delmas/Les Mûres · IZIVIA · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.5 km
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.
The area offers 30 km of alpine pistes, 18 marked pistes (5 green, 5 blue, 6 red, 2 black), 7 ski lifts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 1 km (Le Suc) and the highest lift tops out at 1,787 m.
The resort holds the Famille Plus and Flocon Vert labels.
Access: 1 h 17 by road from Nice and 1 h 17 from L'Ariane La Trinité railway station.
4 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is La Colmiane?
La Colmiane sits at 1,500 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,800 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does La Colmiane have?
La Colmiane has 30 km of slopes, 7 lifts.
What is the longest piste in La Colmiane?
The longest piste is Le Suc: 1 km (blue run), for 134 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 La Colmiane?
The highest lift, Le Pic (detachable chairlift), tops out at 1,791 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does La Colmiane have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 7 installations at La Colmiane (1 chairlift, 5 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 5,257 people per hour, of which 1,800 for Le Pic alone. The fleet spans 1965 to 2012, 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 La Colmiane?
The adult day pass costs €25 (season not stated by the resort, declared by the resort to ANMSM (the French ski resorts’ mayors association)).
How do I get to La Colmiane?
By road, La Colmiane is 1 hr 17 from Nice (70 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is L'Ariane La Trinité, 1 hr 17 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 Nice-Côte d’Azur, 1 hr 12 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to La Colmiane?
10 hr 46 for 989 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 La Colmiane?
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 23 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 147 cm of fresh snow, measured over 18 winters at the Météo-France “BEUIL-OBS” station. This verdict rests on 18 winters of Météo-France measurements (1994-2022); in season the daily report prevails.
Is La Colmiane good for beginners and families?
56% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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