Le Manon
Le Manon refers to the small ski resort located in the locality of the same name, in the territory of the French commune of Septmoncel, in the department of Jura and the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 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?n/a
Not rated: “top of the ski area” is missing from this page.
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?1.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 5 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 5 km · Lifts: 4 · Balance between piste levels: 61%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: “adult day pass” is missing from this page.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 78% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 0 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 20 · Nearest railway station: 25 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 00
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 1 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 0 — 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 (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; 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).
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 MIJOUX station (1,002 m)
7-day forecast
Village 1,179 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.
Snow actually measured, winter by winter
21 complete winters measured, from 2004-2005 to 2025-2026 — on average 36 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 21 %
- 16-31 Dec16 cmInsufficient · 29 %
- 1-15 Jan14 cmInsufficient · 19 %
- 16-31 Jan23 cmInsufficient · 42 %
- 1-15 Feb27 cmInsufficient · 40 %
- 16-29 Feb25 cmInsufficient · 38 %
- 1-15 Mar22 cmInsufficient · 30 %
- 16-31 Mar12 cmInsufficient · 16 %
- 1-15 Apr3 cmInsufficient · 4 %
- Best winter of the series
- 2008-2009 — 108 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 2025-2026 — 0 day at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 260 cm a winter on average, spread over 37 days of snowfall. Measured over 11 complete winters, from 2004-2005 to 2018-2019.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 44 cm — 2018-2019
- Snowiest winter
- 2012-2013 — 333 cm
- Leanest winter
- 2010-2011 — 89 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →9 pistes, by level — 5 km
- Lifts
- 4 drag lifts
- Cross-country skiing
- 14 named trails — 136 km of marked loops (63 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 500 m from the resortOpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 13 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
See the trails(14)
Trail Level Length Les Arobiers red 33 km Boulu-1 blue 25 km La Pellagrue blue 16 km La Petite Grand red 14 km Forêts Monts blue 14 km La Puthod blue 11 km La Perissode green 4.5 km Tourbières blue 3.9 km Liaison black 3.8 km Tour du Lac easy 3.7 km Alain Girod green 2.8 km Futaie green 2.2 km Liaison La Regarde n/a 1.4 km Piste multiactivités n/a 0.8 km - Night skiing
- 1 floodlit pistes (OSM)
- Piste aspect
- N 53% · E 0% · S 0% · W 47% (descent direction of 10 OSM pistes, terrain model)
Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.
Lift passes detail →
The price list for this resort is being collected: most resorts publish winter prices between September and November.
Staying and hiring gear in Le Manon
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
Le Manon publishes no public webcam (checked on 12 September 2026 on its website, its tourist office and the operators’ directories). Know of one? Tell us.
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗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 Manon
From Paris: 5 hr 40 (488 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 1 hr 00 · 47 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 29 · 89 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 57 · 131 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 01 · 136 km
- From Besançon: 2 hr 21 · 128 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Dijon: 2 hr 26 · 169 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 31 · 186 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 50 · 195 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 07 · 235 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 44 · 306 km
- From Nancy: 4 hr 29 · 373 km
- From Strasbourg: 4 hr 50 · 407 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 10 · 436 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 15 · 446 km
- From Paris: 5 hr 40 · 488 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 31 · 584 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 52 · 604 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 27 · 670 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 42 · 693 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 22 · 860 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Claude station
halt · then 25 min drive (19 km)
Nearest main station: Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, 54 min by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 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
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 00 by road · 43 km
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS): 1 hr 51 by road · 130 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Le Manon 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.
Ski touring routes described
Resorts for ski touring →12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Le Manon — up to 1,500 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crêt Pela · GTJ section S - Giron >> Bois d'Amont | n/a · F | 1,500 m | 1,060 → 1,400 m | n/a | 0.7 km |
| Mont Rond · Face NE | n/a · F | 300 m | 1,300 → 1,596 m | NE | 4.9 km |
| Colomby de Gex · Par le petit Mont Rond et le Pas de l'échine | n/a · E1 · AD+ | 1,450 m | 1,000 → 1,688 m | E | 5 km |
| Borne 1605 (Balcon du Léman) · Face SE | 4.3 · D+ | 885 m | 720 → 1,605 m | SE | 5.2 km |
| Colomby de Gex · Couloir Tartif | 4.1 · E2 · D- | 838 m | 850 → 1,688 m | n/a | 6 km |
| Colomby de Gex · Colomby de Gex et ses voisins en boucle depuis Lélex | 2.1 · E1 · PD | 800 m | 889 → 1,688 m | NW · W | 6 km |
| Colomby de Gex · Depuis Septfontaines | 2.2 · PD | 787 m | 900 → 1,687 m | W | 6 km |
| Colomby de Gex · Couloir Chica | 4.2 · D | 980 m | 720 → 1,688 m | SE | 6.2 km |
| Colomby de Gex · Par le Creux de l'Envers | n/a · PD | 940 m | 750 → 1,688 m | SE | 6.2 km |
| Colomby de Gex · Par le Pas de l'Echine | n/a · PD- | 900 m | 750 → 1,688 m | SE | 6.2 km |
| Mont Chanais · Par le Chemin Neuf | n/a · PD | 750 m | 700 → 1,450 m | N | 6.8 km |
| Le Reculet · Col de la Faucille - Le Reculet Traverse | 2.3 · E1 · PD- | 940 m | 869 → 1,717 m | N · NE · E · SE · S · SW · W · NW | 7.2 km |
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 ↗
Beyond skiing at Le Manon
Toboggan runs
- Luge sur rails · Mijoux · 5.2 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine couverte - Village vacance George Moustaki · Les Moussières · 6.4 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Mélanie massage - Réflexologie et Massage bien-être à Saint-Claude · Saint-Claude · 7 km away
Dog sledding
- Sentiers Nordiques - Chiens de traîneaux · Prémanon · 6.2 km away
- Chiens de traîneaux : cani-rando / cani-remorque · Mijoux · 6.8 km away
Paragliding
- Site de parapente de la Faucille - Mijoux · Mijoux · 4.9 km away
- Site de parapente du Petit Mont Rond · Gex · 5.5 km away
- Site de parapente Les deux potes · Crozet · 7.7 km away
- Stages de parapente · Gex · 9.9 km away
Museum
- Musée des pierres et du lapidaire · Mijoux · 3.8 km away
- Musée des Lapidaires · Lamoura · 4.1 km away
- Musée de l'Abbaye / donations Guy Bardone - René Genis · Saint-Claude · 6.7 km away
- Musée de la Pipe et du Diamant · Saint-Claude · 6.7 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma de la Maison du Peuple · Saint-Claude · 6.9 km away
- Cinéma le Patio · Gex · 9.4 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.
Practical information
Collective accommodation
- 4 hotels · 42 rooms (1 × 3★)
Commune: Septmoncel les Molunes · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Tourist office
Bureau d'information touristique
🌐 saint-claude-haut-jura.com/horaires-et-points-d-accueil.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.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Le Manon?
Le Manon sits at 1,179 m at village level.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Manon have?
Le Manon has 5 km of pistes served by 4 lifts (OpenStreetMap survey).
How do I get to Le Manon?
By road, Le Manon is 1 hr 00 from Genève (47 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Claude, 25 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 00 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Manon?
5 hr 40 for 488 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is Le Manon good for beginners and families?
78% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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