Le Planolet
Off season1,085 mVillage altitude
1,356 mTop of the ski area
5 kmAlpine pistes
11Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Le Planolet is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse. The village sits at 1,085 m and the ski area rises to 1,356 m, a skiable vertical of 273 m.
Live webcams
Le Planolet publishes no public webcam (checked on 12 September 2026 on its website, its tourist office and the operators’ directories). Know of one? Tell us.
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 COL DE PORTE-NIVOSE station (1,325 m)
Source: Météo-France, COL DE PORTE-NIVOSE weather station, 10 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-January to mid-March. 91 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 16 winters at the Météo-France “COL DE PORTE-NIVOSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 16 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,085 m · top 1,356 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: 1,356 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,083 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 91 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 22%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 5 km · Lifts: 11 · Balance between piste levels: 75%
- 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?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 79% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 0 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 3 hr 54 · Nearest railway station: 33 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 1 · Nearest airport: 58 min
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 0 · 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 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).
14 pistes, by level
7 green4 blue3 red0 black
- Skiable vertical
- 273 m
- Lifts
- 1 gondola, 2 chairlifts, 10 drag lifts
- Cross-country skiing
- 4 named trails — 26 km of marked loops (12 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Centre Nordique La Ruchère area, 4.6 km from the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 20261 kmLongest piste — Col (red), 178 m of vertical
187 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,270 → 1,083 m, 1 km
1,270 mHighest lift top — Écureuils (drag lift)
1 kmTotal length of lifts — 5 lifts mapped
n/aSki area boundary (OSM)
581Inhabitants — Saint-Pierre-d'Entremont (INSEE 38446)
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 Planolet
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Collective accommodation
- 1 hotel · 9 rooms (1 × 2★)
Commune: Saint-Pierre-d'Entremont · 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 Planolet
Swimming pool
- Piscine municipale · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 4.2 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Espace Bien-être - L'évasion au naturel · Plateau-des-Petites-Roches · 6.6 km away
- O d'là de l'O · Lumbin · 9 km away
Paragliding
- Site de décollage parapente · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 2.7 km away
- Ecole de Parapente les Gens d'air · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 3.5 km away
- Site d'atterissage parapente · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 4.1 km away
- Là-Haut Parapente · Plateau-des-Petites-Roches · 7.6 km away
Museum
- Musée de la Grande Chartreuse · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 4.2 km away
- Musée Arcabas en Chartreuse · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 5.7 km away
- Musée de l'ours des cavernes · Entremont-le-Vieux · 9.8 km away
Cinema
- Salle Notre-Dame, cinéma et théâtre · Saint-Pierre-d'Entremont · 5.6 km away
- Cinéma Le Cartus · Saint-Laurent-du-Pont · 8.6 km away
- Cinéma le Montcelet · Entre-deux-Guiers · 9.5 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
Tourist office
Office de tourisme
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
6 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 Planolet — up to 2,350 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Scia · Par les pistes du Planolet | 1.1 · E1 · F | 715 m | 1,080 → 1,791 m | W | 1.2 km |
| Grand Som · Face E en traversée par la Combe des Éparres | 4.2 · E2 · D- | 1,060 m | 970 → 2,026 m | E | 1.8 km |
| Grand Som · Face E | 4.2 · E2 · D- | 924 m | 1,102 → 2,026 m | SE | 1.8 km |
| Grand Som · Face E en boucle par l'Arête N et la Combe du Frenay | 4.2 · E2 · D- | 1,400 m | 813 → 2,026 m | E | 2 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 Planolet
From Paris: 6 hr 21 (591 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 36 min · 32 km
- From Chambéry: 45 min · 32 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 16 · 86 km
- From Valence: 1 hr 30 · 112 km
- From Lyon: 1 hr 44 · 121 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Genève: 1 hr 45 · 124 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 17 · 170 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 36 · 322 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 36 · 290 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 37 · 316 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 42 · 325 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 55 · 352 km
- From Perpignan: 4 hr 59 · 464 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 20 · 483 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 43 · 533 km
- From Toulouse: 5 hr 55 · 550 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 00 · 514 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 21 · 591 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 35 · 676 km
- From Pau: 7 hr 49 · 740 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Béron - La Bridoire station
halt · then 33 min drive (28 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 36 min by road.
- From Grenoble station (stop “Gare Routiere”): line T40 — ST PIERRE DE CHARTREUSE-GRENOBLE (REGION - cars Région Isère), 1 hr 20 to the “Le Planolet Station” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays, 1 a day at weekends · first 08:50, last 08:50 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.
By plane
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 58 min by road · 46 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 58 min by road · 61 km
Take me there
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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 5 km of alpine pistes, 14 marked pistes (7 green, 4 blue, 3 red), 11 ski lifts. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 1 km (Col) and the highest lift tops out at 1,270 m.
Access: 36 min by road from Grenoble and 33 min from Saint-Béron - La Bridoire railway station.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Le Planolet?
Le Planolet sits at 1,085 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,356 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Planolet have?
Le Planolet has 5 km of slopes, 11 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Le Planolet?
The longest piste is Col: 1 km (red run), for 178 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 Planolet?
The highest lift, Écureuils, tops out at 1,270 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 5 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 1 km.
How do I get to Le Planolet?
By road, Le Planolet is 36 min from Grenoble (32 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Béron - La Bridoire, 33 min by road from the resort. From Grenoble station, line T40 — ST PIERRE DE CHARTREUSE-GRENOBLE (REGION - cars Région Isère) reaches the “Le Planolet Station” stop in 1 hr 20, 1 departure a day on weekdays, 1 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Chambéry-Savoie, 58 min away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Planolet?
6 hr 21 for 591 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 Planolet?
Good snow from mid-January to mid-March. 91 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 16 winters at the Météo-France “COL DE PORTE-NIVOSE” station. This verdict rests on 16 winters of Météo-France measurements (2007-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Le Planolet good for beginners and families?
79% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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