La Plagne
Off season · opens 12 December 2026La Plagne is a French ski area in the alpine valley of the Tarentaise (Savoie). Since 2003, La Plagne and the neighbouring resort of Les Arcs form the Paradiski ski area. It is currently owned by Compagnie des Alpes.

Live webcams
All webcams (24) →Each player is the camera operator’s own, loaded only when you ask for it — it may set its own trackers.
Official players of the resort, live image. 20 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 12 December 2026 and close on 24 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the BELLECOTE-NIVOSE station (2,992 m)
Source: Météo-France, BELLECOTE-NIVOSE weather station, 7.6 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 127 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 481 cm of fresh snow, measured over 41 winters at the Météo-France “La Plagne” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 41 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,250 m · top 3,250 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?4 / 5
Top of the ski area: 3,250 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,250 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 127 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4.5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 425 km · Lifts: 109
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €58 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.14/km · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 75% · Magic carpets: 23 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 5
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 59 · Nearest railway station: 23 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 45
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 13 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 50 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 11,577 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?2.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 12% · Spas and saunas: 1 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 1 · Adult day pass: €58 — 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 2025-2026
All prices (child, family, season) →€45 Child, 1 day€39 Beginner, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. La Plagne pass, covering the whole linked area. 2025-2026 season, the latest price list published. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 2,000 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 5 named trails — 44 km of marked loops (18 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Plateau du Tovet area, 11 km from the resort
- Snowpark
- Yes
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); km of the linked area: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept); 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 2026Measured 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 Plagne only (“PLAGNE (LA)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in La Plagne
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Collective accommodation
11,577 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 8 hotels · 386 rooms (1 × 4★, 4 × 3★)
- 4 holiday villages and family centres · 1,977 bed spaces
- 24 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 8,898 bed spaces
- 2 youth hostels and sports centres · 702 bed spaces
- 2 campsites · 74 pitches
Commune: La Plagne Tarentaise · 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
Gear & equipment
Beyond skiing at La Plagne
Without skis on — 1 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Ice rink
- Patinoire de Plagne Centre · La Plagne Tarentaise · 0.1 km away
- Patinoire · La Plagne Tarentaise · 6.8 km away
- Ice Rink - Seasonal · OpenStreetMap
Swimming pool
- Piscine municipale · Champagny-en-Vanoise · 6 km away
- Les Bains de Belle Plagne · 2.4 km away · OpenStreetMap
Spa and thermal baths
- Spa Bellecôte · La Plagne Tarentaise · 1.8 km away
- Spa Nuxe Araucaria · OpenStreetMap
Dog sledding
- Génération Musher - Traîneau à chiens · Champagny-en-Vanoise · 7.5 km away
Paragliding
- Air La Plagne Parapente · Aime-la-Plagne · 0.1 km away
- Fly in Paradise - Sébastien - Parapente · La Plagne Tarentaise · 0.2 km away
- Plagn'Air - Parapente · La Plagne Tarentaise · 1.7 km away
- Paradifly, école de parapente et Snakegliss · Aime-la-Plagne · 1.8 km away
Museum
- Tour Sarrazine, musée · Bozel · 7.4 km away
- Muséum des Animaux de Montagne · Landry · 9.9 km away
Cinema
- Salle de spectacle et de cinéma · Aime-la-Plagne · 5.8 km away
- Cinéma Montchavin-Les Coches · La Plagne Tarentaise · 7.5 km away
- Cinéma l'Eterlou · Bourg-Saint-Maurice · 8.6 km away
- Cinema - Espace les Ecrins · OpenStreetMap
Bowling
- Bowling le Holidays · OpenStreetMap
- Bowling de Belle Plagne · 2.4 km away · OpenStreetMap
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 Plagne-Centre
174 instructors
🇬🇧 166 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 de la Grande Plagne · Plagne Centre, 73210 · 0479090201 · info@la-plagne.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (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 de la Grande Plagne and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Named itineraries: Les Étroits · Frisbee · Grande Pente · Hara Kiri · Tracé de l'ancien téléski des Leitchoums · Gavotte
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 Plagne — up to 1,500 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roc du Bécoin · Traversée des arêtes du Dou de Moûtiers, Mont Jovet, Roc du Bécoin, Roc des Verdons | 2.2 · E2 · PD+ | 1,500 m | 1,250 → 2,594 m | n/a | 1.9 km |
| Roc du Bécoin · Couloir NW | 4.3 · E2 · D+ | 1,150 m | 1,400 → 2,550 m | NW | 1.9 km |
| Mont Saint-Jacques · Couloir N | 3.2 · E1 · D+ | 800 m | 1,600 → 2,457 m | N | 2.6 km |
| Col du Lac · Versant E depuis Montalbert | 2.1 · E1 · F | 750 m | 1,620 → 2,378 m | E | 2.7 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
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
Open the piste map (PDF, 8.3 MB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
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 Plagne
From Paris: 7 hr 21 (679 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 34 · 110 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 49 · 104 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 50 · 140 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 31 · 150 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 44 · 209 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 53 · 232 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 18 · 257 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 36 · 410 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 37 · 374 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 51 · 323 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 00 · 437 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 06 · 446 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 22 · 585 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 27 · 524 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 43 · 621 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 46 · 540 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 18 · 671 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 21 · 679 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 35 · 764 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 13 · 861 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Aime - La Plagne station
regional station · then 23 min drive (19 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 32 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 45 by road · 118 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 23 by road · 185 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
6 charging points · up to 125 kW
- LA PLAGNE - Parking les mines · TotalEnergies Charging Services · 6 points · 125 kW · 0.9 km
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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Frequently asked questions
How high is La Plagne?
La Plagne sits at 1,250 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 3,250 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does La Plagne have?
From La Plagne you can ski 425 km of slopes across Paradiski, 109 lifts.
What is the longest piste in La Plagne?
The longest piste is Bauches: 7 km (blue run), for 269 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 Plagne?
The highest lift, Glacier (chairlift), tops out at 3,167 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does La Plagne have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 109 installations at La Plagne (3 aerial tramways, 11 gondolas, 28 chairlifts, 44 drag lifts, 23 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 149,594 people per hour, of which 4,000 for Arpette alone. The fleet spans 1969 to 2024, an average age of 24 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 Plagne?
The adult day pass for the La Plagne linked area costs €58 (2025-2026 season, the latest price list published, read on the official price list).
How do I get to La Plagne?
By road, La Plagne is 1 hr 34 from Chambéry (110 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Aime - La Plagne, 23 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 45 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to La Plagne?
7 hr 21 for 679 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
When does La Plagne open?
According to the dates declared by the resort (ANMSM feed), the resort opens on 12 December 2026 and closes on 24 April 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in La Plagne?
Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 127 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 481 cm of fresh snow, measured over 41 winters at the Météo-France “La Plagne” station. This verdict rests on 41 winters of Météo-France measurements (1981-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
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