Les Brévières
1,560 mSector altitude
Tignes-les-Brevières is a small skiing village in the French Alps that is the lowest point of the ski resort of Tignes.
A sector of Tignes
The Tignes resort page →Les Brévières is one of the ski villages of Tignes, and shares its ski area (39 lifts). The area, the lift passes, the piste map, the off-piste routes and the SkiRadar ratings are described once, on the Tignes page — this page keeps what belongs to Les Brévières: its own altitude, its webcams, where to stay in the village, how to get there and its ski school.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →▶ Watch at the operator ↗
Tignes le LacRoundshot
▶ Watch at the operator ↗
Tignes Val ClaretRoundshot
▶ Watch at the operator ↗
La Grande MotteRoundshot
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 16 October 2026.
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 LE CHEVRIL-NIVOSE station (2,559 m)
Source: Météo-France, LE CHEVRIL-NIVOSE weather station, 2.9 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 127 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 499 cm of fresh snow, measured over 39 winters at the Météo-France “Tignes” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 39 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,560 m · top 3,036 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.
Staying and hiring gear in Les Brévières
The partners covering this resort, shown side by side, and the shop to kit out before you leave. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.
Collective accommodation
8,802 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 25 hotels · 1,007 rooms (4 × 5★, 5 × 4★, 7 × 3★, 3 × 2★, 1 × 1★)
- 3 holiday villages and family centres · 811 bed spaces
- 21 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 7,661 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 330 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 97 pitches
Commune: Tignes · 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 Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
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 Les Brévières
Without skis on — 0 km of snowshoe and walking trails
Swimming pool
- Espace Plage - La piscine · Val-d'Isère · 8.1 km away
Museum
- Musée Val Histoire · Val-d'Isère · 8 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 Tignes Le Lac
198 instructors
🇬🇧 160 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Tignes Information · BP 51, 73320 · 04.79.40.04.40 · information@tignes.net (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- FPA4-S83-AURA-Hiver2025-FH-SAVOIE VF (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 Tignes Information and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Getting to Les Brévières
From Paris: 7 hr 41 (697 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 54 · 128 km
- From Annecy: 2 hr 09 · 121 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 10 · 157 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 51 · 168 km · avoids Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard, closed in winter
- From Lyon: 3 hr 04 · 226 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 3 hr 14 · 250 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 38 · 275 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 56 · 427 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 57 · 392 km
- From Besançon: 5 hr 11 · 340 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 21 · 454 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 26 · 464 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 40 · 490 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 42 · 602 km
- From Nice: 7 hr 04 · 621 km · via Bourg-Saint-Maurice station
- From Nancy: 7 hr 04 · 638 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 38 · 688 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 41 · 697 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 55 · 782 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 33 · 878 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Bourg-Saint-Maurice station
regional station · then 28 min drive (23 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 52 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 2 hr 05 by road · 135 km
- Genève (GVA): 3 hr 05 by road · 172 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Les Brévières as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
6 charging points · up to 180 kW
- TIGNES 1800 · EASYCHARGE · 6 points · 180 kW · 1.6 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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Nearby resorts
Full page in French. The French page carries the editorial guides and a few extra readings; every figure, webcam and price on this page is the same one. Les Brévières in French →
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