Les Saisies
Off season · opens 5 December 2026Les Saisies is a ski resort located in Hauteluce, Savoie, France. It is 30 km (19 mi) from Albertville, host of the 1992 Winter Olympics. For those games, the resort hosted the biathlon and cross-country skiing events.

Live webcams
All webcams (10) →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. 6 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 5 December 2026. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the COL-DES-SAISIES station (1,614 m)
Source: Météo-France, COL-DES-SAISIES weather station, 0.4 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 121 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 19 winters at the Météo-France “COL-DES-SAISIES” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 19 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,650 m · top 2,069 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: 2,069 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,150 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 121 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 94%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4.5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 192 km · Lifts: 35
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €52 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.27/km · Adult 6-day pass: €260 · 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: 78% · Magic carpets: 7 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 30 · Nearest railway station: 36 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 24
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 20 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 3,196 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?2 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 13% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 1 · Adult day pass: €52 — 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) →€260 6 days€41.60 Child, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Espace Diamant pass, covering the whole linked area. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 919 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 13 named trails — 104 km of marked loops (35 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Les Saisies area, 700 m from the resort
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of the linked area: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) . 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 2026Measured 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 Saisies only (“SAISIES (LES)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Les Saisies
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Collective accommodation
3,196 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 3 hotels · 93 rooms (1 × 4★, 1 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 2 holiday villages and family centres · 1,274 bed spaces
- 6 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,922 bed spaces
Commune: Hauteluce · 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
Ski hire
Gear & equipment
Beyond skiing at Les Saisies
Without skis on — 4 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Ice rink
- Patinoire · Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe · 6 km away
Swimming pool
- Spa des Cîmes - Hôtel Mont Charvin · Cohennoz · 4.3 km away
Paragliding
- Megève Aventure Parapente · Praz-sur-Arly · 9.3 km away
Museum
- Ecomusée de Hauteluce · Hauteluce · 3.7 km away
- Musée "La Maison des Contes de Fées" · Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe · 5.2 km away
- Musée de la Maison du Meunier et Moulin à Tienne · Flumet · 7 km away
- Musée digital - L'agriculture de montagne et nos savoir-faire fromagers · Flumet · 7.1 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Chantecler · Ugine · 9.4 km away
Bowling
- Le 1650 · 0.6 km away · 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 Les Saisies
186 instructors
🇬🇧 66 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Les Saisies · 316 avenue des Jeux Olympiques, 73620 · 04.79.38.90.30 · info@lessaisies.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- Brochure navettes_21_22 (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 Les Saisies and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Named itineraries: Sapinière · Ancienne piste noire Cuberotte · Chemin de la Palettaz · Ancienne Liaison Saisie - Crest Voland/Cohennoz
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 Saisies — up to 1,350 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont Bisanne · La Légette | 1.1 · E1 · F | 500 m | 1,500 → 2,000 m | E | 2.9 km |
| Mont Clocher · Depuis Hauteluce | 2.1 · E1 · F | 826 m | 1,150 → 1,976 m | SE | 3.4 km |
| Montagne d'Outray - Épaule W · Versant NE | n/a · PD- | 820 m | 1,086 → 1,906 m | NW | 4.8 km |
| Montagne d'Outray - Croix · Versant NW | 3.1 · E1 · AD- | 1,200 m | 1,140 → 2,346 m | NW | 4.9 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
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
Open the piste map (PDF, 13.3 MB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
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 Saisies
From Paris: 6 hr 54 (627 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 13 · 84 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 16 · 59 km
- From Genève: 1 hr 27 · 92 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 29 · 113 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 23 · 182 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 33 · 206 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 57 · 231 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 56 · 266 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 03 · 348 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 16 · 348 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 39 · 410 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 45 · 420 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 51 · 483 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 01 · 558 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 05 · 551 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 06 · 497 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 54 · 627 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 57 · 644 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 14 · 737 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 52 · 834 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Albertville station
regional station · then 36 min drive (32 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 11 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): 1 hr 24 by road · 91 km
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 52 by road · 100 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Les Saisies as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
5 charging points · up to 50 kW
- Les Saisies - Avenue des jeux olympiques · EASYCHARGE · 3 points · 50 kW · 0.3 km
- Commune d'Hauteluce · RAIDEN · 2 points · 40 kW · 0.6 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.
What's on around Les Saisies
All events →-
3 November 2026 · 18:00
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Cinéma Chantecler · Ugine
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Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Les Amis du Cinéma” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Les Rafforts (6.5 km), Bisanne 1500 (6.6 km), Le Cernix (7.3 km), Crest-Voland Cohennoz (8.5 km)
Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Les Saisies?
Les Saisies sits at 1,650 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,069 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Les Saisies have?
From Les Saisies you can ski 192 km of slopes across Espace Diamant, 35 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Les Saisies?
The longest piste is Sangliers: 6 km (red run), for 357 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 Saisies?
The highest lift, Bellasta (detachable chairlift), tops out at 2,052 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Les Saisies have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 35 installations at Les Saisies (1 gondola, 15 chairlifts, 12 drag lifts, 7 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 47,062 people per hour, of which 3,300 for Bisanne alone. The fleet spans 1966 to 2024, an average age of 18 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 Saisies?
The adult day pass for the Espace Diamant linked area costs €52 and the 6-day pass €260 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Les Saisies?
By road, Les Saisies is 1 hr 13 from Chambéry (84 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Albertville, 36 min 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 Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 24 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Les Saisies?
6 hr 54 for 627 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 Saisies open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 5 December 2026 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Les Saisies?
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 121 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 19 winters at the Météo-France “COL-DES-SAISIES” station. This verdict rests on 19 winters of Météo-France measurements (1996-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
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