Getting to Le Somport-Candanchu
Le Somport-Candanchu is 1 h 39 by road from Pau (87 km), 9 h 48 from Paris, 34 min from Bedous railway station.
Le Somport-Candanchu is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in the commune of Urdos. The village sits at 1,594 m and the ski area rises to 2,197 m, a skiable vertical of 497 m.
Getting to Le Somport-Candanchu
By road
- From Pau : 1 h 39 · 87 km
- From Toulouse : 3 h 49 · 281 km
- From Bordeaux : 3 h 55 · 296 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 39 · 477 km
- From Montpellier : 6 h 07 · 512 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 7 h 42 · 650 km
- From Marseille : 7 h 47 · 674 km
- From Valence : 7 h 57 · 709 km
- From Grenoble : 8 h 54 · 801 km
- From Lyon : 9 h 04 · 809 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 9 h 07 · 688 km
- From Nice : 9 h 25 · 832 km
- From Chambéry : 9 h 39 · 860 km
- From Paris : 9 h 48 · 874 km
- From Annecy : 10 h 04 · 918 km
- From Genève : 10 h 34 · 956 km
- From Dijon : 10 h 37 · 946 km
- From Besançon : 11 h 13 · 1004 km
- From Nancy : 12 h 44 · 1157 km
- From Strasbourg : 13 h 36 · 1242 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Bedous station
halt · then 34 min by road (30 km)
Nearest main station: Pau, 1 h 39 by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Pau-Pyrénées (PUF) : 1 h 55 by road · 95 km
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées (LDE) : 2 h 13 by road · 119 km
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By electric car
No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 September 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute 64 (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) ↗ — passes, snow chains, winter maintenance
- Bison Futé (national) ↗
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain municipalities (French “loi Montagne II”).
Driving times: OpenStreetMap (OSRM); stations: SNCF open data; airports: Wikidata — read on 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.