La Giettaz-en-Aravis
1,101 mVillage altitude
1,930 mTop of the ski area
100 kmLinked pistes · les Portes du Mont-Blanc
8Ski lifts
€65Adult day pass · Evasion Mont-Blanc · 2026-2027
La Giettaz-en-Aravis is a winter sports resort in the Aravis, located in the communal territory of La Giettaz, in the département of Savoie in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The ski area is linked to the large Portes du Mont-Blanc area with the possibility of joining that of Évasion Mont-Blanc.
Live webcams
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Panoramique vidéole lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →0 of 108 pistes open · 2 of 54 lifts · recorded on 15 October at 11:22, official source
0 cmSnow at the bottom
95 cmSnow at the top
31 March 2026Last snowfall
Right now at the COMBLOUX station (1,183 m)
Source: Météo-France, COMBLOUX weather station, 8.8 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 121 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 19 winters at the Météo-France “COL-DES-SAISIES” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 19 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,101 m · top 1,930 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?3 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,930 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,200 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 121 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 93%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 100 km · Lifts: 8
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?2.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €65 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.65/km · Adult 6-day pass: €324.50 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?1.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 44% · Magic carpets: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 24 · Nearest railway station: 41 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 24
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 2 · Upcoming events: 2 · Collective tourist beds: 68 — 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: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €65 — 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 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€324.50 6 days
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Evasion Mont-Blanc pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Combloux. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 730 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 3 named trails — 3.3 km of marked loops, right by the resort
- Snowpark
- Yes
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of the linked area: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) . In a linked ski area the map cannot tell where the resort ends: its own km stay “n/a” until the resort declares them.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20263 kmLongest piste — Mandarines (green), 530 m of vertical
548 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,755 → 1,207 m, 2 km
1,982 mHighest lift top — TK de Torraz (platter lift), national lift register
6,701Total lift capacity, people per hour — 8 installations: 2 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
22 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1977, newest 2012
2,000Biggest lift, people per hour — TS de La Grande Rare (chairlift, 2012)
37 kmTotal length of lifts — 44 lifts mapped
9,335 haSki area boundary (OSM)
381Inhabitants — La Giettaz (INSEE 73123)
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 Giettaz-en-Aravis only (“GIETTAZ (LA)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in La Giettaz-en-Aravis
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Collective accommodation
68 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 hotel · 9 rooms (1 × 2★)
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 68 bed spaces
Commune: La Giettaz · 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 Giettaz-en-Aravis
Without skis on — 2 sledging runs
Toboggan runs
- Luge des Prés · La Clusaz · 7.8 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire · Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe · 7.4 km away
- Patinoire olympique · Megève · 8.1 km away
- Patinoire de plein air · Megève · 8.3 km away
Swimming pool
- Espace Aquatique La Clusaz · La Clusaz · 7.6 km away
- Piscines intérieures · Megève · 8.1 km away
- Piscine olympique extérieure · Megève · 8.1 km away
- Pataugeoire intérieure · Megève · 8.1 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Saunas · Megève · 8.1 km away
- Hammam · Megève · 8.1 km away
- Pure Altitude Longevity Spa du Lodge Park · Megève · 8.2 km away
Paragliding
- Aravis Parapente · La Clusaz · 0.7 km away
- Megève Aventure Parapente · Praz-sur-Arly · 6 km away
- Parapente : terrain d'atterrissage "Les Potais" · Le Grand-Bornand · 7.8 km away
- Megève Parapente · Megève · 8.2 km away
Museum
- Musée digital - L'agriculture de montagne et nos savoir-faire fromagers · Flumet · 6.2 km away
- Musée de la Maison du Meunier et Moulin à Tienne · Flumet · 6.4 km away
- Le Hameau des Alpes · La Clusaz · 7.4 km away
- Musée "La Maison des Contes de Fées" · Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe · 8.1 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Les Rhodos · Le Grand-Bornand · 9.8 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. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF La Giettaz
15 instructors
🇬🇧 13 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- OTI Val d'Arly-Bureau de La Giettaz · Chef Lieu, 73590 · 0479329190 (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 OTI Val d'Arly-Bureau de La Giettaz and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 9 Marked off-piste itineraries · 7 km
5 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Rare II Haut · Goulet Noire · Charmots · Crête-Rhodos · Ravine · Coupure
Itineraries surveyed on OpenStreetMap within a 4 km radius (7 September 2026): “marked” means an itinerary exists on the map, not that it is open or safe on the day.
Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of La Giettaz-en-Aravis — up to 1,320 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petit Croisse Baulet · Depuis la Giettaz Crépinière | 2.1 · E1 · F | 719 m | 1,280 → 2,009 m | SW | 0.7 km |
| Croisse Baulet · Depuis la Giettaz Crépinière / Descente par le Nant de l'Enfer | 3.2 · E1 · AD | 1,100 m | 1,200 → 2,236 m | SW | 0.8 km |
| Trou de la Mouche · Versant E depuis le Plan | 3.3 · E1 · AD+ | 1,250 m | 1,270 → 2,453 m | SE | 1.3 km |
| Les Parossaz - Antécime E · Couloir S du Repère | 5.2 · E3 · TD | 1,320 m | 1,170 → 2,489 m | S | 1.5 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 October 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 Giettaz-en-Aravis
From Paris: 6 hr 36 (599 km) by road.
By road
- From Annecy: 1 hr 00 · 46 km
- From Genève: 1 hr 09 · 64 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 13 · 85 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 29 · 114 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 23 · 183 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 32 · 207 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 57 · 232 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 38 · 238 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 44 · 320 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 16 · 349 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 39 · 411 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 45 · 420 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 33 · 456 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 47 · 524 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 01 · 559 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 06 · 498 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 36 · 599 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 57 · 645 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 14 · 738 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 52 · 835 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station
regional station · then 41 min drive (32 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 00 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 24 by road · 92 km
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 34 by road · 73 km
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Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 October 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 October 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is La Giettaz-en-Aravis?
La Giettaz-en-Aravis sits at 1,101 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,930 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does La Giettaz-en-Aravis have?
From La Giettaz-en-Aravis you can ski 100 km of slopes across les Portes du Mont-Blanc, 8 lifts.
What is the longest piste in La Giettaz-en-Aravis?
The longest piste is Mandarines: 3 km (green run), for 530 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 Giettaz-en-Aravis?
The highest lift, TK de Torraz (platter lift), tops out at 1,982 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does La Giettaz-en-Aravis have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 8 installations at La Giettaz-en-Aravis (2 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 6,701 people per hour, of which 2,000 for TS de La Grande Rare alone. The fleet spans 1977 to 2012, an average age of 22 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 Giettaz-en-Aravis?
The adult day pass for the Evasion Mont-Blanc linked area costs €65 and the 6-day pass €324.50 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Combloux).
How do I get to La Giettaz-en-Aravis?
By road, La Giettaz-en-Aravis is 1 hr 00 from Annecy (46 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Sallanches - Combloux - Megève, 41 min 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 Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 24 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to La Giettaz-en-Aravis?
6 hr 36 for 599 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 Giettaz-en-Aravis?
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 121 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 19 winters at the Météo-France “COL-DES-SAISIES” station. This verdict rests on 19 winters of Météo-France measurements (1996-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
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