Le Grand Puy
Off season1,373 mVillage altitude
1,759 mTop of the ski area
11 kmAlpine pistes
5Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Le Grand Puy is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), in the commune of Seyne. The village sits at 1,373 m and the ski area rises to 1,759 m, a skiable vertical of 478 m.
Le Grand Puy webcams
▶ Watch at the operator ↗
Webcams de la stationimages en direct sur la page officielle de la station
Le Grand Puy broadcasts its images on its own page: the link takes you there. 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 MONTCLAR_SAPC station (1,197 m)
Source: Météo-France, MONTCLAR_SAPC weather station, 9.1 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 5 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 110 cm of fresh snow, measured over 48 winters at the Météo-France “SEYNE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 48 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,373 m · top 1,759 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?2 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,759 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,281 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 5 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 37%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 11 km · Lifts: 5 · Balance between piste levels: 57%
- 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?1.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 8% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 1 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 21 · Nearest railway station: 50 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 25
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 1 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 175 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1 / 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 — 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).
13 pistes, by level
0 green1 blue9 red3 black
- Skiable vertical
- 478 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 17 km of marked loops (16 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), right by the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap; top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 20263 kmLongest piste — Tourtourel (blue), 383 m of vertical
447 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,729 → 1,281 m, 2 km
1,759 mHighest lift top — TSF Les Crêtes (chairlift), national lift register
3,635Total lift capacity, people per hour — 5 installations: 1 chairlift, 4 drag lifts
18 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1979, newest 2016
1,200Biggest lift, people per hour — TSF Les Crêtes (chairlift, 2016)
2 kmTotal length of lifts — 4 lifts mapped
242 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,379Inhabitants — Seyne (INSEE 04205)
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 Le Grand Puy only (“GRAND PUY (LE)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Le Grand Puy
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Collective accommodation
175 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 hotel · 18 rooms (1 × 2★)
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 175 bed spaces
- 2 campsites · 200 pitches
Commune: Seyne · 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 Grand Puy
Without skis on — 1 sledging run
Swimming pool
- Centre Aqualudique de Seyne · Seyne · 3.8 km away
Museum
- La Maison du Mulet · Seyne · 5.6 km away
- Musée archéologique de Montclar · Montclar · 9.3 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
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 →Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Le Grand Puy — up to 1,460 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiguillette de Seyne · Par la Crête de Conforan | 2.3 · E2 · AD- | 1,265 m | 1,345 → 2,610 m | W | 3.5 km |
| Aiguillette de Seyne · Couloir SW | n/a · D- | 1,200 m | 1,450 → 2,610 m | SW | 3.8 km |
| Col la Pierre (Seyne) · Versant SW | n/a · AD | 1,000 m | 1,460 → 2,452 m | W | 3.9 km |
| La Moutière ou Dos du Chameau · Couloir W | n/a · D | 1,150 m | 1,450 → 2,596 m | W | 4 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 September 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 Grand Puy
From Paris: 8 hr 38 (725 km) by road.
By road
- From Marseille: 2 hr 27 · 175 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 49 · 152 km
- From Nice: 3 hr 10 · 185 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 28 · 211 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 38 · 210 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 46 · 298 km
- From Annecy: 3 hr 57 · 258 km
- From Lyon: 4 hr 01 · 254 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 27 · 296 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 34 · 303 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 07 · 446 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 53 · 455 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 54 · 423 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 03 · 532 km
- From Besançon: 6 hr 12 · 485 km
- From Pau: 7 hr 58 · 722 km
- From Nancy: 8 hr 00 · 666 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 27 · 774 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 35 · 723 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 38 · 725 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Chorges station
halt · then 50 min drive (44 km)
Nearest main station: Les Arcs - Draguignan, 2 hr 40 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 20 September 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
- Marseille-Provence (MRS): 2 hr 25 by road · 171 km
- Cuneo (CUF): 2 hr 57 by road · 167 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Le Grand Puy as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 September 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 September 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 11 km of alpine pistes, 13 marked pistes (1 blue, 9 red, 3 black), 5 ski lifts. The share of black runs makes it a rather technical area.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 3 km (Tourtourel) and the highest lift tops out at 1,749 m.
Access: 2 h 27 by road from Marseille and 50 min from Chorges railway station.
1 official webcam shows the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Le Grand Puy?
Le Grand Puy sits at 1,373 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,759 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Grand Puy have?
Le Grand Puy has 11 km of slopes, 5 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Le Grand Puy?
The longest piste is Tourtourel: 3 km (blue run), for 383 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 Grand Puy?
The highest lift, TSF Les Crêtes (chairlift), tops out at 1,759 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Le Grand Puy have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 5 installations at Le Grand Puy (1 chairlift, 4 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 3,635 people per hour, of which 1,200 for TSF Les Crêtes alone. The fleet spans 1979 to 2016, an average age of 18 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 do I get to Le Grand Puy?
By road, Le Grand Puy is 2 hr 27 from Marseille (175 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Chorges, 50 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 Marseille-Provence, 2 hr 25 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Grand Puy?
8 hr 38 for 725 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 Grand Puy?
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 5 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 110 cm of fresh snow, measured over 48 winters at the Météo-France “SEYNE” station. This verdict rests on 48 winters of Météo-France measurements (1959-2018); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Le Grand Puy good for beginners and families?
8% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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