Getting to Le Chinaillon
Le Chinaillon is 51 min by road from Annecy (38 km), 6 h 25 from Paris, 33 min from Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny railway station.
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.
Getting to Le Chinaillon
By road
- From Annecy : 51 min · 38 km
- From Genève : 58 min · 54 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 25 · 91 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 54 · 136 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 23 · 178 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 57 · 227 km
- From Valence : 2 h 58 · 229 km
- From Besançon : 3 h 27 · 228 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 33 · 309 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 16 · 367 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 04 · 433 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 10 · 442 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 22 · 445 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 36 · 513 km
- From Nice : 6 h 18 · 518 km
- From Paris : 6 h 25 · 588 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 26 · 581 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 22 · 667 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 14 · 754 km
- From Pau : 9 h 17 · 857 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny station
regional station · then 33 min by road (26 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 51 min by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 23 by road · 62 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 28 by road · 90 km
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By electric car
2 charging locations within 2 km
5charging points · up to24 kW
- LE GRAND-BORNAND - Chinaillon 2 · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 0.3 km
- LE GRAND BORNAND - Route de l'envers du Chinaillon · EASYCHARGE · 3points · 24 kW · 0.4 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute 74 (Haute-Savoie) ↗ — passes, snow chains, winter maintenance
- Bison Futé (national) ↗
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain municipalities (French “loi Montagne II”).
Driving times: OpenStreetMap (OSRM); stations: SNCF open data; airports: Wikidata — read on 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.