Le Mont-Dore
Off season · opens 19 December 20261,300 mVillage altitude
1,850 mTop of the ski area
17Ski lifts
€42.70Adult day pass · 2025-2026
Not retained (conflicting sources): km of alpine pistes.
Le Mont-Dore is a winter sports resort of the Massif central located in the Le Grand Sancy ski area, at the foot of the Sancy.
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Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026 and close on 21 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the CHASTREIX station (1,385 m)
Source: Météo-France, CHASTREIX weather station, 3.2 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late January. 38 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 14 winters at the Météo-France “SUPERBESSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 14 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,300 m · top 1,850 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: 1,850 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,200 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 38 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 1%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?n/a
Not rated: neither the resort nor the map gives the length of its pistes.
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?4 / 5
Adult day pass: €42.70 · Adult 6-day pass: €231.60
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 70% · Magic carpets: 2 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 32 · Nearest railway station: 47 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 12
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 4 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 591 — 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 · Adult day pass: €42.70 — 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).
Lift passes 2025-2026
All prices (child, family, season) →€231.60 6 days€584.60 Season€30.40 Child, 1 day€30.90 Beginner, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2025-2026 season, the latest price list published. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 650 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 29 km of nordic trails
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) . 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 20263 kmLongest piste — Bois Joli (green), 224 m of vertical
464 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,768 → 1,304 m, 3 km
1,821 mHighest lift top — Pas De L'ane (platter lift), national lift register
14,390Total lift capacity, people per hour — 17 installations: 2 aerial tramways, 3 chairlifts, 10 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
31 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1961, newest 2017
2,000Biggest lift, people per hour — Tremplin (chairlift, 2006)
27 kmTotal length of lifts — 38 lifts mapped
551 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,163Inhabitants — Mont-Dore (INSEE 63236)
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 Mont-Dore only (“MONT DORE (LE)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Le Mont-Dore
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Collective accommodation
591 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 15 hotels · 371 rooms (6 × 3★, 8 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 444 bed spaces
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 40 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 107 bed spaces
- 4 campsites · 336 pitches
Commune: Mont-Dore · 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.
Ski hire
Skiset UK
Skiset’s UK site: ski hire in the resort shops, booked in English, paid in pounds.
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 Mont-Dore
Without skis on — 13 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs
Toboggan runs
- Luge d'été Lego® du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 2.9 km away
- Luge d'été de Super-Besse · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 4.3 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire · Mont-Dore · 3.5 km away
Swimming pool
- Centre ludo-sportif Les Hermines : Espace aquatique · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 4.8 km away
- Sancy' O - Pôle Aqualudique de La Bourboule · La Bourboule · 7.3 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Escapade Beauté · Mont-Dore · 3.5 km away
- Cures médicales - Thermes du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 3.6 km away
- Spa de l'Etablissement Thermal du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 3.6 km away
- Centre ludo-sportif Les Hermines : Espace Bien-être · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 4.7 km away
Dog sledding
- Chiens de traîneau des volcans · Picherande · 9.2 km away
Paragliding
- Sites de parapente du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 3.5 km away
- Site de Parapente de Super-Besse · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 4.5 km away
- Terrain de pratique de parapente - Le Puy de l'Ouire · Orcival · 9.8 km away
Museum
- Espace culturel Joseph Foret · Mont-Dore · 3.5 km away
- Musée Joseph Forêt · Mont-Dore · 3.5 km away
- Minéralexpo · La Bourboule · 7.7 km away
- Scénomusée Toinette et Julien · Murat-le-Quaire · 8.8 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma : L'Olympic · Mont-Dore · 3.8 km away
- Cinéma : Ciné-Super · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 4.5 km away
- Cinéma : Le Roxy · La Bourboule · 7.7 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
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de tourisme du Mont-Dore · Avenue de La Libération, 63240 · +33(0)473652021 · accueil-otsancy@sancy.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
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.
Resort data: declared by Office de tourisme du Mont-Dore and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 2 Marked off-piste itineraries · 3 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Pradets - Retour Village
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 Mont-Dore — up to 1,200 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puy de Cliergue · Face E | 3.1 · E2 · PD | n/a | 1,300 → 1,620 m | E | 0.5 km |
| Puy Redon · Couloir NW | n/a · PD+ | 484 m | 1,300 → 1,784 m | NW | 0.6 km |
| Puy de Sancy · Sancy En Traversee | n/a · AD | 1,200 m | 1,350 → 1,885 m | N | 0.7 km |
| Puy de Sancy · Par le Val de Courre, Fontaine Salée et Col de la Cabane | n/a · PD- | 830 m | 1,320 → 1,885 m | n/a | 0.7 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 Mont-Dore
From Paris: 5 hr 05 (471 km) by road.
By road
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 55 min · 49 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 28 · 196 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 47 · 218 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 50 · 314 km
- From Bordeaux: 3 hr 53 · 347 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Toulouse: 3 hr 57 · 351 km
- From Grenoble: 3 hr 57 · 319 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 59 · 315 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 07 · 369 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 12 · 349 km
- From Annecy: 4 hr 18 · 353 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 25 · 372 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 43 · 427 km
- From Paris: 5 hr 05 · 471 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 07 · 450 km
- From Pau: 5 hr 54 · 543 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 58 · 525 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 14 · 579 km
- From Strasbourg: 7 hr 06 · 665 km
- From Nice: 7 hr 36 · 683 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Durtol - Nohanent station
halt · then 47 min drive (44 km)
Nearest main station: Clermont-Ferrand, 55 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
- Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne (CFE): 1 hr 12 by road · 62 km
- Limoges (LIG): 2 hr 29 by road · 211 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
3 charging points · up to 25 kW
- CHARGEZY - Mont Dore - Sancy · SPIE CityNetworks · 3 points · 25 kW · 0.2 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Le Mont-Dore?
Le Mont-Dore sits at 1,300 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,850 m.
What is the longest piste in Le Mont-Dore?
The longest piste is Bois Joli: 3 km (green run), for 224 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 Mont-Dore?
The highest lift, Pas De L'ane (platter lift), tops out at 1,821 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Le Mont-Dore have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 17 installations at Le Mont-Dore (2 aerial tramways, 3 chairlifts, 10 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 14,390 people per hour, of which 2,000 for Tremplin alone. The fleet spans 1961 to 2017, an average age of 31 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 much is a lift pass in Le Mont-Dore?
The adult day pass costs €42.70 and the 6-day pass €231.60 (2025-2026 season, the latest price list published, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Le Mont-Dore?
By road, Le Mont-Dore is 55 min from Clermont-Ferrand (49 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Durtol - Nohanent, 47 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 Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne, 1 hr 12 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Mont-Dore?
5 hr 05 for 471 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
When does Le Mont-Dore open?
According to the dates declared by the resort (ANMSM feed), the resort opens on 19 December 2026 and closes on 21 March 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Le Mont-Dore?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late January. 38 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 14 winters at the Météo-France “SUPERBESSE” station. This verdict rests on 14 winters of Météo-France measurements (2005-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Le Mont-Dore good for beginners and families?
The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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