Le Chinaillon
1,300 mVillage altitude
1,814 mTop of the ski area
61 kmAlpine pistes
25Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Le Chinaillon is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Le Grand-Bornand. The village sits at 1,300 m and the ski area rises to 1,814 m, a skiable vertical of 539 m.
Live webcams
All webcams (5) →ChinaillonSkaping
Mont LachatSkaping
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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. 1 more camera on the webcam page. Checked on 12 September 2026.
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 LE GRAND-BORNAND station (1,430 m)
Source: Météo-France, LE GRAND-BORNAND weather station, 1.6 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-January to late March. 115 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 11 winters at the Météo-France “LE GRAND-BORNAND” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 11 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,300 m · top 1,814 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: 1,814 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,275 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 115 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 87%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 61 km · Lifts: 25 · Balance between piste levels: 86%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: no official price list could be found.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 78% · Magic carpets: 4 · Sledging runs: 0 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 30 · Nearest railway station: 33 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 23
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 17 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 1,775 — 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: 19% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 — 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).
77 pistes, by level
36 green24 blue12 red5 black
- Skiable vertical
- 539 m
- Lifts
- 2 gondolas, 9 chairlifts, 10 drag lifts, 4 magic carpets
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone, 3 km from the resort — Snowpark
- Cross-country skiing
- 4 km of nordic trails
Ski-area figures — bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20263 kmLongest piste — Le Lac (green), 281 m of vertical
589 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,019 → 1,430 m, 2 km
2,027 mHighest lift top — Lachat (chairlift)
19 kmTotal length of lifts — 20 lifts mapped
n/aSki area boundary (OSM)
2,050Inhabitants — Le Grand-Bornand (INSEE 74136)
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 Chinaillon
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Collective accommodation
1,775 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 12 hotels · 219 rooms (2 × 4★, 8 × 3★, 2 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 161 bed spaces
- 3 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,614 bed spaces
- 2 campsites · 245 pitches
Commune: Le Grand-Bornand · 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 Le Chinaillon
Without skis on — 0 km of snowshoe and walking trails
Toboggan runs
- Luge des Prés · La Clusaz · 7.8 km away
Swimming pool
- Espace Aquatique La Clusaz · La Clusaz · 7.2 km away
Paragliding
- Parapente : décollage du Lachat · Le Grand-Bornand · 2.4 km away
- AirLinks : école de parapente · Le Grand-Bornand · 3.2 km away
- Parapente : terrain d'atterrissage "Les Potais" · Le Grand-Bornand · 4 km away
- Aire de décollage de parapente de Brison/Solaison · Brizon · 9.1 km away
Museum
- La Maison du patrimoine · Le Grand-Bornand · 3.6 km away
- Le Hameau des Alpes · La Clusaz · 8.5 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Les Rhodos · Le Grand-Bornand · 3.7 km away
- Le Charmieux · 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
Tourist office
Bureau d'informations touristiques du grand-bornand chinaillon
🌐 legrandbornand.com/bureau-d-informations-touristiques-du-grand-bornand-chinaillon.html
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 → 0 Marked off-piste itineraries
16 km Ski touring routes
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 Chinaillon — up to 2,100 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roc des Tours · Variante par La Gaudinière (couloir) | 2.2 · E2 · AD- | 630 m | 1,364 → 1,994 m | SE | 1 km |
| Roc des Tours · Depuis le Chinaillon (voie normale) | n/a · PD- | 630 m | 1,370 → 1,994 m | SE | 1 km |
| Aiguille Verte du Chinaillon · Arête S depuis Samance | n/a · PD- | 700 m | 1,350 → 2,045 m | E | 1.1 km |
| Col de l'Aiguille Verte du Chinaillon · Depuis le Chinaillon | n/a · PD | 550 m | 1,350 → 1,900 m | E | 1.1 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 Le Chinaillon
From Paris: 6 hr 25 (588 km) by road.
By road
- From Annecy: 51 min · 38 km
- From Genève: 58 min · 54 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 25 · 91 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 54 · 136 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 23 · 178 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 57 · 227 km
- From Valence: 2 hr 58 · 229 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 27 · 228 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 33 · 309 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 16 · 364 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 04 · 433 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 10 · 442 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 22 · 445 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 36 · 513 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 17 · 518 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 25 · 588 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 26 · 581 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 22 · 667 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 14 · 754 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 17 · 857 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny station
regional station · then 33 min drive (26 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 51 min 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
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 23 by road · 62 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 28 by road · 90 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
5 charging points · up to 24 kW
- LE GRAND-BORNAND - Chinaillon 2 · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 24 kW · 0.3 km
- LE GRAND BORNAND - Route de l'envers du Chinaillon · EASYCHARGE · 3 points · 24 kW · 0.4 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.
The area offers 61 km of alpine pistes, 77 marked pistes (36 green, 24 blue, 12 red, 5 black), 25 ski lifts, plus a snowpark. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 3 km (Le Lac) and the highest lift tops out at 2,027 m.
The resort holds the Flocon Vert and Station classée de tourisme labels.
Access: 51 min by road from Annecy and 33 min from Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny railway station.
5 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Le Chinaillon?
Le Chinaillon sits at 1,300 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,814 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Chinaillon have?
Le Chinaillon has 61 km of slopes, 25 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Le Chinaillon?
The longest piste is Le Lac: 3 km (green run), for 281 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 Chinaillon?
The highest lift, Lachat, tops out at 2,027 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 20 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 19 km.
How do I get to Le Chinaillon?
By road, Le Chinaillon is 51 min from Annecy (38 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, 33 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 Genève, 1 hr 23 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Chinaillon?
6 hr 25 for 588 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 Chinaillon?
Good snow from mid-January to late March. 115 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 11 winters at the Météo-France “LE GRAND-BORNAND” station. This verdict rests on 11 winters of Météo-France measurements (2015-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Le Chinaillon good for beginners and families?
78% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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