Le Cernix

Northern Alps Linked area Espace Diamant Updated on 21 September 2026
1,240 mVillage altitude
1,930 mTop of the ski area
€52Adult day pass · Domaine Espace Diamant · 2025-2026

Not retained (conflicting sources): km of alpine pistes, ski lifts.

Le Cernix is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Cohennoz. The village sits at 1,240 m and the ski area rises to 1,930 m, a skiable vertical of 1,015 m.

Le Cernix — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Live webcams

All webcams (8) →
Crest voland Le Cernix · Skaping 1.7 km away Open at the operator ↗
Bisanne 1500Bisanne 1500 · 0.0 km away
RosieresBisanne 1500 · 0.1 km away
▶ Watch at the operator ↗
Le Mont BlancBisanne 1500 · 0.2 km away

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. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.

Webcams provided by windy.com — add a webcam.

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.

Right now at the COL-DES-SAISIES station (1,614 m)

Source: Météo-France, COL-DES-SAISIES weather station, 4.1 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.

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 1,240 m · top 1,930 m

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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.

7-day forecast →

SkiRadar ratings

How ratings are computed →Computed on 16 October 2026

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.

  1. SnowCan you count on the snow?
    3 / 5

    Top of the ski area: 1,930 m · Bottom of the pistes: 915 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 121 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 94%

  2. Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?
    4 / 5

    Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 192 km

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    3 / 5

    Adult day pass: €52 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.27/km · Adult 6-day pass: €260 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area

  4. Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?
    3 / 5

    Share of green and blue pistes: 70% · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0 · Famille Plus label

  5. AccessIs it easy to get to?
    3 / 5

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 23 · Nearest railway station: 29 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 17

  6. Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?
    3 / 5

    Bars and pubs: 3 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 15 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 0 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?
    2 / 5

    5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 100% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €52 — 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).

€312 6 days

Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Domaine Espace Diamant pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Domaine de Praz sur Arly. 2025-2026 season, the latest price list published. Official price list ↗

Skiable vertical
1,015 m
Cross-country skiing
13 named trails — 104 km of marked loops (35 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Les Saisies area, 1.3 km from the resort

Ski-area figures — bottom, top: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct) . 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 2026
6 kmLongest piste — Sangliers (red), 357 m of vertical
445 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,765 → 1,320 m, 2 km
2,039 mHighest lift top — Douce (chairlift)
63 kmTotal length of lifts — 80 lifts mapped
7,208 haSki area boundary (OSM)
137Inhabitants — Cohennoz (INSEE 73088)

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.

Staying and hiring gear in Le Cernix

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Collective accommodation

  • 1 hotel · 20 rooms (1 × 4★)

Commune: Cohennoz · 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.
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Gear & equipment

Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
Browse the shop
Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
Browse the shop
Picture
Ski and snowboard jackets, pants and accessories — a French brand.
Browse the shop

Beyond skiing at Le Cernix

Without skis on — 8 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run

Ice rink

  • Patinoire · Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe · 3.3 km away

Swimming pool

Paragliding

  • Megève Aventure Parapente · Praz-sur-Arly · 8.3 km away

Museum

  • Musée "La Maison des Contes de Fées" · Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe · 3.5 km away
  • Musée de la Maison du Meunier et Moulin à Tienne · Flumet · 4.2 km away
  • Musée digital - L'agriculture de montagne et nos savoir-faire fromagers · Flumet · 5 km away
  • Ecomusée de Hauteluce · Hauteluce · 7.6 km away

Cinema

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 Crest Voland

📞 04 79 31 60 03

🌐 esf-crest-voland.com

66 instructors

🇬🇧 41 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available

🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in Le Cernix →

Tourist office

Office de tourisme "le cernix"

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.

Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring

The resorts for off-piste skiing →
2 Marked off-piste itineraries · 1 km
— Ski touring routes

Named itineraries: Chemin de la Palettaz · Ancienne Liaison Saisie - Crest Voland/Cohennoz

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 Le Cernix — up to 2,800 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
Mont Bisanne · La Légette1.1 · E1 · F500 m1,500 → 2,000 mE4 km
Praz Vechin · Par Hery-sur-Uginen/a · F543 m1,200 → 1,743 mSE4.5 km
Mont Charvin · Voie Tardivel5.5 · E41,800 mn/aSE · S6.3 km
La Croix Cartier · Par le Plan Dessus2.2 · E1 · PD600 m1,320 → 1,834 mn/a6.3 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 ↗

Official piste map

No downloadable piste map published by the resort.

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 Le Cernix

From Paris: 6 hr 48 (620 km) by road.

By road

  • From Annecy: 1 hr 05 · 51 km
  • From Chambéry: 1 hr 06 · 78 km
  • From Genève: 1 hr 21 · 85 km
  • From Grenoble: 1 hr 23 · 107 km
  • From Lyon: 2 hr 16 · 176 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence: 2 hr 26 · 200 km
  • From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 50 · 225 km
  • From Besançon: 3 hr 50 · 259 km
  • From Dijon: 3 hr 57 · 341 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 10 · 342 km
  • From Montpellier: 4 hr 33 · 404 km
  • From Marseille: 4 hr 38 · 413 km
  • From Strasbourg: 5 hr 45 · 476 km
  • From Perpignan: 5 hr 55 · 552 km
  • From Nancy: 5 hr 59 · 544 km
  • From Nice: 6 hr 00 · 491 km
  • From Paris: 6 hr 48 · 620 km
  • From Toulouse: 6 hr 51 · 638 km
  • From Bordeaux: 8 hr 08 · 731 km
  • From Pau: 8 hr 45 · 828 km

Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.

By train

Albertville station

regional station · then 29 min drive (26 km)

Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 05 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 17 by road · 85 km
  • Genève (GVA): 1 hr 46 by road · 93 km

Take me there

These links open the app with Le Cernix as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.

Charging an electric car

3 charging stations within 2 km

6 charging points · up to 44 kW

  • QOWATT 22KW |CHALET DE MONT CHARVIN · DREAM ENERGY · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
  • QOWATT 22KW |CHALET DE MONT CHARVIN · QoWatt · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
  • Mairie de Crest Voland · RAIDEN · 2 points · 44 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 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.

What's on around Le Cernix

All events →
  • 3 November 2026 · 18:00

    Sorda

    Cinéma Chantecler · Ugine

    Version st-sme - Angela est sourde, Hector est entendant. Ils forment un couple épanoui et heureux malgré leur différence. Mais la naissance de leur premier enfant inquiète Angela : saura-t-elle cr...

    Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Les Amis du Cinéma” · View on OpenAgenda ↗

    Also near: Les Rafforts (6.5 km), Bisanne 1500 (6.6 km), Crest-Voland Cohennoz (8.5 km), Les Saisies (9.2 km)

Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.

Le Cernix belongs to the linked Espace Diamant area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.

Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 6 km (Sangliers) and the highest lift tops out at 2,039 m.

The resort holds the Famille Plus and Flocon Vert labels.

Access: 1 h 05 by road from Annecy and 29 min from Albertville railway station.

1 official webcam shows the pistes live (on the French page).

Frequently asked questions

How high is Le Cernix?

Le Cernix sits at 1,240 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,930 m.

What is the longest piste in Le Cernix?

The longest piste is Sangliers: 6 km (red run), for 357 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 Le Cernix?

The highest lift, Douce, tops out at 2,039 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 80 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 63 km.

How much is a lift pass in Le Cernix?

The adult day pass for the Domaine Espace Diamant linked area costs €52 and the 6-day pass €312 (2025-2026 season, the latest price list published, read on the official price list of Domaine de Praz sur Arly).

How do I get to Le Cernix?

By road, Le Cernix is 1 hr 05 from Annecy (51 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Albertville, 29 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 17 away.

How long is the drive from Paris to Le Cernix?

6 hr 48 for 620 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 Le Cernix?

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.

Is Le Cernix good for beginners and families?

The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.

Nearby resorts

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