Getting to Les Contamines
Les Contamines is 1 h 42 by road from Chambéry (94 km), 7 h 30 from Paris, 1 h 27 from Sallanches - Combloux - Megève railway station.
Les Contamines is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Les Contamines-Montjoie. The village sits at 1,955 m and the ski area rises to 2,445 m, a skiable vertical of 1,341 m.
Getting to Les Contamines
By road
- From Chambéry : 1 h 42 · 94 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 54 · 84 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 59 · 123 km
- From Genève : 2 h 11 · 114 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 53 · 192 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 3 h 02 · 216 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 26 · 241 km
- From Besançon : 4 h 39 · 288 km
- From Dijon : 4 h 45 · 393 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 46 · 361 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 09 · 420 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 14 · 430 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 31 · 568 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 34 · 506 km
- From Nice : 6 h 35 · 507 km
- From Nancy : 6 h 49 · 574 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 27 · 654 km
- From Paris : 7 h 30 · 663 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 44 · 748 km
- From Pau : 9 h 21 · 844 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station
regional station · then 1 h 27 by road (58 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 41 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 54 by road · 101 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 2 h 32 by road · 169 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 74 (Haute-Savoie) ↗ — 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.
Resort data: declared by Les Contamines Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September