Les Carroz
Off season · opens 12 December 20261,150 mVillage altitude
2,109 mTop of the ski area
265 kmLinked pistes · Grand Massif
15Ski lifts
€63Adult day pass · Grand Massif · 2026-2027
Les Carroz is a village and a winter and summer tourist resort in the département of Haute-Savoie, in the commune of Arâches-la-Frasse.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Carroz 2100Webcam-HD
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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 11 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the FLAINE_SAPC station (1,611 m)
Source: Météo-France, FLAINE_SAPC weather station, 4.8 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. 50 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 325 cm of fresh snow, measured over 12 winters at the Météo-France “LES CARROZ VILLAGE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 12 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,150 m · top 2,109 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 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,109 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,160 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 50 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 93%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 265 km · Lifts: 15
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €63 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.24/km · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 77% · Magic carpets: 5 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 3
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 28 · Nearest railway station: 17 min · Nearest airport: 1 hr 14
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 6 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 19 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 7,795 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?2.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 22% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €63 — 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) →€56.70 Child, 1 day€28 Beginner, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Grand Massif pass, covering the whole linked area. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 949 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 22 km of marked loops (15 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Domaine Nordique d'Agy - Saint-Sigismond area, 3.3 km from the resort
- Snowpark
- 3 mapped zones, 2.1 km from the resort — Boardercross (intermediate) · Cool zone de l'Oasis (easy) · Ze FunkyPark
Ski-area figures — bottom: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan); km of the linked area: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept) . In a linked ski area the map cannot tell where the resort ends: its own km stay “n/a” until the resort declares them.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 202611 kmLongest piste — Cascades (red), 1,594 m of vertical
1,594 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,376 → 781 m, 11 km
2,109 mHighest lift top — TSD de la Tête des Saix (detachable chairlift), national lift register
16,598Total lift capacity, people per hour — 15 installations: 1 gondola, 4 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 5 magic carpets
28 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1963, newest 2018
3,000Biggest lift, people per hour — TSD des Molliets (detachable chairlift, 2009)
56 kmTotal length of lifts — 52 lifts mapped
5,962 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,764Inhabitants — Arâches-la-Frasse (INSEE 74014)
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 Les Carroz only (“CARROZ D'ARACHES (LES)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Les Carroz
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Collective accommodation
7,795 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 5 hotels · 170 rooms (2 × 4★, 2 × 3★)
- 4 holiday villages and family centres · 1,990 bed spaces
- 12 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 5,187 bed spaces
- 2 youth hostels and sports centres · 618 bed spaces
Commune: Arâches-la-Frasse · 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
Vacances Bleues
Club hotels and holiday villages, often full board.
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
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 Carroz
Without skis on — 3 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs
Ice rink
- Jardin de glace à la Patinoire de Samoëns · Samoëns · 8.7 km away
Swimming pool
- Espace piscine -Aquacîme · Arâches-la-Frasse · 1 km away
- Piscine de Samoëns · Samoëns · 8.3 km away
Paragliding
- Atterrissage parapente des Flocons Verts · Arâches-la-Frasse · 0.4 km away
- Décollage parapente de la Kédeuze · Arâches-la-Frasse · 1.8 km away
- Atterrissage parapente Arâches · Arâches-la-Frasse · 1.8 km away
- Agy Plane parapente - Laurent Broisin · Cluses · 6.4 km away
Museum
- Musée de l'Horlogerie et du Décolletage · Cluses · 6 km away
- Ferme Ecomusée du Clos Parchet · Samoëns · 9.6 km away
- Micro-Folie · Marnaz · 9.7 km away
Cinema
- Cinétoiles - Cinéma Art & Essais · Cluses · 6.1 km away
- Ciné Cluses · Cluses · 6.1 km away
- Cinéma Cinébus · Taninges · 9.8 km away
- Le Choucas · 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 Araches Les Carroz
131 instructors
🇬🇧 67 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
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 → 4 Marked off-piste itineraries · 8 km
1 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Corbalanche · Félire · Coccinelle
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 Les Carroz — up to 1,030 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe de l'Arbaron · Versant NW | n/a · PD- | 750 m | 1,844 → 1,953 m | NW | 2.6 km |
| Pointe de Véret · Couloir "aux Poubelles" | 5.1 · E2 · D | 340 m | 1,780 → 2,122 m | NW | 3.7 km |
| Pointe des Biollaires · De Morillon | 1.3 · F | 1,011 m | 700 → 1,711 m | n/a | 3.8 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · depuis les Carroz, par les pistes | n/a · F | 980 m | 1,160 → 2,118 m | NW | 3.8 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 Les Carroz
From Paris: 6 hr 15 (590 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 49 min · 55 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 01 · 79 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 29 · 121 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 03 · 177 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 23 · 198 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 01 · 257 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 01 · 279 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 17 · 229 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 24 · 311 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 06 · 366 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 08 · 483 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 12 · 447 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 13 · 492 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 27 · 515 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 02 · 500 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 15 · 590 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 30 · 631 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 26 · 717 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 04 · 756 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 20 · 907 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Magland station
halt · then 17 min drive (13 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 59 min by road.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 14 by road · 64 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 32 by road · 120 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Les Carroz as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
5 charging stations within 2 km
10 charging points · up to 24 kW
- ARÂCHES LA FRASSE - Route des Moulins · EASYCHARGE · 3 points · 24 kW · 0.3 km
- La Croix de Savoie - 22 kW AC · Zephyre SAS · 1 point · 22 kW · 0.9 km
- ARÂCHES-LA-FRASSE -Parking de la Piscine · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 24 kW · 1 km
- ARÂCHES LA FRASSE - D106 Route de la Barliette · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.1 km
- MAGLAND - Parking de la Beziere · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.8 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 Les Carroz?
Les Carroz sits at 1,150 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,109 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Les Carroz have?
From Les Carroz you can ski 265 km of slopes across Grand Massif, 15 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Les Carroz?
The longest piste is Cascades: 11 km (red run), for 1,594 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 Les Carroz?
The highest lift, TSD de la Tête des Saix (detachable chairlift), tops out at 2,109 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Les Carroz have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 15 installations at Les Carroz (1 gondola, 4 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 5 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 16,598 people per hour, of which 3,000 for TSD des Molliets alone. The fleet spans 1963 to 2018, an average age of 28 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 Les Carroz?
The adult day pass for the Grand Massif linked area costs €63 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Les Carroz?
By road, Les Carroz is 49 min from Genève (55 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Magland, 17 min by road from the resort. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 14 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Les Carroz?
6 hr 15 for 590 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 Les Carroz open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 12 December 2026 and closes on 11 April 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Les Carroz?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to mid-March. 50 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 325 cm of fresh snow, measured over 12 winters at the Météo-France “LES CARROZ VILLAGE” station. This verdict rests on 12 winters of Météo-France measurements (2002-2016); in season the daily report prevails.
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