Le Seignus
Off season · opens 12 December 20261,514 mVillage altitude
2,395 mTop of the ski area
26 kmAlpine pistes
4Ski lifts
€35Adult day pass · 2026-2027
Le Seignus d'Allos is the first resort of Val d'Allos. The resort is located at an altitude of 1,500 m. Bordering the Parc du Mercantour, the resort also benefits from summer tourism from hikers.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Centre StationWebcam-HD
Seignus BasWebcam-HD
Seignus HautWebcam-HD
Each player is the camera operator’s own, loaded only when you ask for it — it may set its own trackers.
Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 12 December 2026 and close on 4 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the ALLOS_SAPC station (1,400 m)
Source: Météo-France, ALLOS_SAPC weather station, 0.8 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next. Snow cover month by month →
3-day forecast
Village 1,514 m · top 2,395 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: 2,395 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,514 m · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 64%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 26 km · Lifts: 4 · Balance between piste levels: 87%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €35 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €1.35/km
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 50% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 0 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 6 hr 13 · Nearest railway station: 1 hr 52 · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 20
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 6 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 1,337 — 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: €35 — 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 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€420 Season€32 Child, 1 day€9 Pedestrian, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
18 pistes, by level
1 green8 blue5 red4 black
- Skiable vertical
- 881 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 20 km of marked loops (11 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 6.5 km from the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan); lifts, pistes by level: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept) . The national register attributes 10 lifts to Le Seignus alone; the figure above comes from the most reliable source.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20264 kmLongest piste — Valcibière (red), 817 m of vertical
817 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,332 → 1,515 m, 4 km
2,395 mHighest lift top — Autapie 2 (platter lift), national lift register
9,760Total lift capacity, people per hour — 10 installations: 3 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
35 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1965, newest 2014
2,400Biggest lift, people per hour — Clos Bertrand (detachable chairlift, 2014)
21 kmTotal length of lifts — 22 lifts mapped
4,537 haSki area boundary (OSM)
812Inhabitants — Allos (INSEE 04006)
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 Seignus only (“SEIGNUS D'ALLOS (LE)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Le Seignus
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Collective accommodation
1,337 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 7 hotels · 109 rooms (2 × 3★, 2 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 220 bed spaces
- 3 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,117 bed spaces
Commune: Allos · 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 Seignus
Without skis on — 2 km of snowshoe and walking trails
Toboggan runs
- Luge multisaison Verdon Express · Allos · 7.1 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire · Allos · 6.5 km away
Paragliding
- Parapente bi places · Allos · 0.7 km away
- Flying Nomad Speedriding et parapente · Allos · 6.8 km away
Museum
- Maison Musée et Chemin de Ronde · Colmars · 6.7 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
Ski school
ESF Allos Le Seignus
39 instructors
🇬🇧 16 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 → 2 Marked off-piste itineraries · 1 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 Seignus — up to 1,250 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Autapie · Versant NE | n/a · PD | 800 m | 1,600 → 2,435 m | NE | 1.8 km |
| Rochegrand · Pentes N | n/a · F | 900 m | 1,500 → 2,409 m | N | 1.9 km |
| Tête de Pra Bertrand · Depuis la Baumelle | n/a · F | 944 m | 1,520 → 2,364 m | N | 2.9 km |
| Sommet de Valdemars · Par le Vallon de Valdemars | n/a · PD | 1,030 m | 1,529 → 2,559 m | N | 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 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 Seignus
From Paris: 9 hr 23 (771 km) by road.
By road
- From Nice: 2 hr 25 · 130 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 05 · 210 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 24 · 333 km
- From Grenoble: 4 hr 26 · 258 km · via Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban station
- From Valence: 4 hr 35 · 353 km · avoids Col d’Allos, closed in winter
From other major cities (15)
- From Chambéry: 5 hr 04 · 317 km · via Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban station
- From Genève: 5 hr 12 · 342 km
- From Annecy: 5 hr 34 · 364 km · via Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban station
- From Lyon: 5 hr 38 · 360 km · via Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban station
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 45 · 480 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 5 hr 58 · 472 km · avoids Col d’Allos, closed in winter
- From Dijon: 6 hr 38 · 502 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 6 hr 39 · 467 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 41 · 567 km
- From Besançon: 6 hr 57 · 531 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 36 · 757 km
- From Nancy: 8 hr 45 · 713 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 05 · 809 km
- From Strasbourg: 9 hr 20 · 769 km
- From Paris: 9 hr 23 · 771 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban station
halt · then 1 hr 52 drive (100 km)
Nearest main station: Les Arcs - Draguignan, 2 hr 23 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
- Nice-Côte d’Azur (NCE): 2 hr 20 by road · 126 km
- Toulon-Hyères (TLN): 3 hr 12 by road · 206 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
3 charging stations within 2 km
7 charging points · up to 60 kW
- ALLOS - Le Seignus · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 24 kW · 0.5 km
- ALLOS - Parking La Ville · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.9 km
- ALLOS - Parking de la poste · EASYCHARGE · 3 points · 60 kW · 1.1 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 Seignus?
Le Seignus sits at 1,514 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,395 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Seignus have?
Le Seignus has 26 km of slopes, 4 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Le Seignus?
The longest piste is Valcibière: 4 km (red run), for 817 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 Seignus?
The highest lift, Autapie 2 (platter lift), tops out at 2,395 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Le Seignus have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 10 installations at Le Seignus (3 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 9,760 people per hour, of which 2,400 for Clos Bertrand alone. The fleet spans 1965 to 2014, an average age of 35 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 Seignus?
The adult day pass costs €35 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Le Seignus?
By road, Le Seignus is 2 hr 25 from Nice (130 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, 1 hr 52 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 Nice-Côte d’Azur, 2 hr 20 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Seignus?
9 hr 23 for 771 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 Seignus open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 12 December 2026 and closes on 4 April 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Le Seignus?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next. This verdict rests on 10 winters of reanalysis (estimate, 2015-2025); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Le Seignus good for beginners and families?
50% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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