Le Sauze
Off season · opens 19 December 20261,352 mVillage altitude
2,347 mTop of the ski area
42 kmAlpine pistes
22Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Le Sauze is a winter sports resort, located in the Ubaye valley, in the Alps massif (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence).
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026 and close on 29 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the JAUSIERS-ST ANNE station (1,240 m)
Source: Météo-France, JAUSIERS-ST ANNE weather station, 5.8 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to mid-March. 53 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 186 cm of fresh snow, measured over 52 winters at the Météo-France “LES ORRES” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 52 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,352 m · top 2,347 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?3 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,347 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,374 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 53 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 95%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 42 km · Lifts: 22 · Balance between piste levels: 84%
- 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 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 65% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 3
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 52 · Nearest railway station: 1 hr 04 · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 08
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 5 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 189 — 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).
89 pistes, by level
23 green35 blue29 red2 black
- Skiable vertical
- 973 m
- Snowpark
- 3 mapped zones, 3.1 km from the resort — Skieur Cross M (easy) · Skieur Cross L (intermediate) · Stade de Slalom (easy)
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20262 kmLongest piste — Soudane (blue), 442 m of vertical
442 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,128 → 1,686 m, 2 km
2,347 mHighest lift top — Dome (platter lift), national lift register
18,340Total lift capacity, people per hour — 22 installations: 3 chairlifts, 19 drag lifts
48 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1946, newest 2012
1,500Biggest lift, people per hour — Le Brec (detachable chairlift, 2012)
16 kmTotal length of lifts — 20 lifts mapped
n/aSki area boundary (OSM)
399Inhabitants — Enchastrayes (INSEE 04073)
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 Sauze only (“SAUZE (LE)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Le Sauze
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Collective accommodation
189 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 4 hotels · 81 rooms (3 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 102 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 87 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 79 pitches
Commune: Enchastrayes · 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 Sauze
Without skis on — 1 sledging run
Swimming pool
- Piscine du Sauze · Enchastrayes · 0.2 km away
- Grand bassin · 3 km away · OpenStreetMap
Paragliding
- Ubaye Parapente · Faucon-de-Barcelonnette · 2.2 km away
- Incondition'Aile Parapente · Saint-Pons · 4.9 km away
- Pra Loup Parapente · Uvernet-Fours · 6.3 km away
Museum
- Musée de la Vallée - La Sapinière · Barcelonnette · 2.6 km away
- Centre d'art "L'art vient à vous" · Jausiers · 6.7 km away
Cinema
- Ciné Sauze · Enchastrayes · 0.1 km away
- Cinéma Ubaye - Barcelonnette · Barcelonnette · 2.7 km away
- Cinéma de Sauze · OpenStreetMap
- Ciné Ubaye · 2.7 km away · OpenStreetMap
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. Lines marked OpenStreetMap come from the map, within 3 km — opening times on site. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF Le Sauze
48 instructors
🇬🇧 23 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
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 → 12 Marked off-piste itineraries · 7 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Grand C · Petit Brec Hors Piste · Grand Quartier Hors Piste · Brec Hors Piste
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 Sauze — up to 1,340 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapeau de Gendarme - Le Lan · Depuis le Super-Sauze | n/a | 980 m | 1,700 → 2,685 m | NE | 2.9 km |
| Col Bas de l'Alpe · Boucle de Terres Pleines - depuis Super-Sauze (la Rente) | n/a · F | 1,226 m | 1,680 → 2,496 m | n/a | 3.5 km |
| Col du Vallon Julien · Versant N | 2.1 · E1 · PD- | 950 m | 1,680 → 2,630 m | N | 4.1 km |
| Soleil Bœuf · Depuis Faucon de Barcelonnette | n/a · E1 · F | 1,030 m | 1,186 → 2,214 m | n/a | 4.2 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 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 Sauze
From Paris: 8 hr 57 (746 km) by road.
By road
- From Marseille: 3 hr 02 · 232 km
- From Grenoble: 3 hr 08 · 174 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 45 · 246 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 57 · 231 km
- From Annecy: 4 hr 14 · 293 km
From other major cities (14)
- From Lyon: 4 hr 20 · 276 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 20 · 355 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 44 · 331 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 53 · 324 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 42 · 503 km
- From Dijon: 6 hr 12 · 477 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 6 hr 13 · 441 km
- From Besançon: 6 hr 31 · 506 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 38 · 589 km
- From Nancy: 8 hr 19 · 687 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 33 · 779 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 54 · 744 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 57 · 746 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 02 · 831 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
halt · then 1 hr 04 drive (56 km)
Nearest main station: Les Arcs - Draguignan, 3 hr 30 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
- Cuneo (CUF): 2 hr 08 by road · 119 km
- Turin-Caselle (TRN): 3 hr 20 by road · 217 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
4 charging points · up to 24 kW
- ENCHASTRAYES - Le Sauze · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.2 km
- ENCHASTRAYES - Parking le Super Sauze · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 24 kW · 1.7 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 Sauze?
Le Sauze sits at 1,352 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,347 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Sauze have?
Le Sauze has 42 km of slopes, 22 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Le Sauze?
The longest piste is Soudane: 2 km (blue run), for 442 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 Sauze?
The highest lift, Dome (platter lift), tops out at 2,347 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Le Sauze have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 22 installations at Le Sauze (3 chairlifts, 19 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 18,340 people per hour, of which 1,500 for Le Brec alone. The fleet spans 1946 to 2012, an average age of 48 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 Sauze?
By road, Le Sauze is 3 hr 02 from Marseille (232 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre, 1 hr 04 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 Cuneo, 2 hr 08 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Sauze?
8 hr 57 for 746 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 Sauze open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 19 December 2026 and closes on 29 March 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Le Sauze?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to mid-March. 53 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 186 cm of fresh snow, measured over 52 winters at the Météo-France “LES ORRES” station. This verdict rests on 52 winters of Météo-France measurements (1968-2023); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Le Sauze good for beginners and families?
65% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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