Longchamp 1650
1,600 mVillage altitude
2,282 mTop of the ski area
165 kmLinked pistes · Le Grand Domaine
€59.70Adult day pass · Valmorel - Le Grand Domaine · 2026-2027
Not retained (conflicting sources): ski lifts.
Longchamp 1650 is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Saint François Longchamp. The village sits at 1,600 m and the ski area rises to 2,282 m, a skiable vertical of 881 m.
Live webcams
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Webcam Front de neige Longchamp 1650mpanoramic
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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.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early February to mid-March. 93 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 355 cm of fresh snow, measured over 24 winters at the Météo-France “Les Menuires” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 24 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,600 m · top 2,282 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 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,282 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,401 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 93 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 98%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 165 km
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?2.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €59.70 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.36/km · Adult 6-day pass: €299.90 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?4 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 73% · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 28 · Nearest railway station: 17 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 15
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 22 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 2,751 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €59.70 — 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) →€299.90 6 days
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Valmorel - Le Grand Domaine pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Valmorel. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 881 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 9 named trails — 47 km of marked loops (16 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Espace Nordique du Grand Coin area, 5.8 km from the resort
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone, 1.7 km from the resort — SnowPark
Ski-area figures — bottom, top: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); km of the linked area: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct) . 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 20267 kmLongest piste — Le Marquis (blue), 420 m of vertical
573 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,177 → 1,604 m, 3 km
2,516 mHighest lift top — Lauzière (chairlift)
42 kmTotal length of lifts — 42 lifts mapped
4,581 haSki area boundary (OSM)
433Inhabitants — Saint François Longchamp (INSEE 73235)
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.
Staying and hiring gear in Longchamp 1650
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Collective accommodation
2,751 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 5 hotels · 101 rooms (3 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 8 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 2,751 bed spaces
Commune: Saint François Longchamp · 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.
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 Longchamp 1650
Without skis on — 1 sledging run
Swimming pool
- Espace aquatique de Valmorel - Kanopé · Les Avanchers-Valmorel · 8 km away
Paragliding
- ENVERGURE PARAPENTE - LA FILLE DE L'AIR · Saint François Longchamp · 0 km away
- Aire de décollage parapente des Lanchettes · Les Avanchers-Valmorel · 6.8 km away
- Aire de décollage parapente de Crève-Tête · Les Avanchers-Valmorel · 7.8 km away
- Aire de décollage parapente du Gollet · Les Avanchers-Valmorel · 8 km away
Museum
- Musée du Félicien · Argentine · 9.4 km away
Cinema
- Le Studio - cinéma · Les Avanchers-Valmorel · 8 km away
- Le Fanny · OpenStreetMap
Bowling
- Le Strike · 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 St Francois Longchamp
67 instructors
🇬🇧 31 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Saint Francois Longchamp Tourisme · Maison du Tourisme, 73130 · 0479591056 · info@saintfrancoislongchamp.fr (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- Faure Transport (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 Saint Francois Longchamp Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 4 Marked off-piste itineraries · 5 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Le Loup · Free Ride de la Procureuse · Free ride du Riondet · La Lauzière
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 Longchamp 1650 — up to 3,700 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traversée du Massif de la Lauzière · S > N à ski | 3.2 · E2 · PD+ | 3,700 m | 1,265 → 2,829 m | n/a | 0.7 km |
| L'Homme de Beurre · Versant S par les pistes | 2.1 · E1 · PD- | 678 m | 1,590 → 2,268 m | S | 1.2 km |
| Roc Rouge · Versant SW | 2.3 · E1 · PD- | 690 m | 1,690 → 2,375 m | n/a | 1.3 km |
| Le Merbelay / La Roche Noire · Versant NW | n/a · AD | 1,036 m | 1,600 → 2,636 m | W | 1.6 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 Longchamp 1650
From Paris: 6 hr 51 (650 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 04 · 81 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 21 · 110 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 33 · 128 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 03 · 166 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 14 · 179 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 24 · 203 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 48 · 228 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 07 · 380 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 07 · 345 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 23 · 338 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 31 · 407 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 36 · 417 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 20 · 431 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 52 · 555 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 14 · 591 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 18 · 556 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 48 · 642 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 51 · 650 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 06 · 735 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 43 · 832 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Avre - La Chambre station
halt · then 17 min drive (15 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 03 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 15 by road · 89 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 1 hr 54 by road · 156 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
3 charging stations within 2 km
6 charging points · up to 22 kW
- SAINT FRANÇOIS LONGCHAMP - Route de la Madeleine · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
- SAINT FRANÇOIS LONGCHAMP - Route de la Madeleine · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
- SAINT FRANÇOIS LONGCHAMP - Parking Mairie · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.5 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.
The area offers 165 km of alpine pistes across Le Grand Domaine, plus a snowpark.
Longchamp 1650 belongs to the linked Le Grand Domaine area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 7 km (Le Marquis) and the highest lift tops out at 2,516 m.
The resort holds the Famille Plus and Flocon Vert and Station classée de tourisme labels.
Access: 1 h 04 by road from Chambéry and 17 min from Saint-Avre - La Chambre railway station.
6 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Longchamp 1650?
Longchamp 1650 sits at 1,600 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,282 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Longchamp 1650 have?
From Longchamp 1650 you can ski 165 km of slopes across Le Grand Domaine.
What is the longest piste in Longchamp 1650?
The longest piste is Le Marquis: 7 km (blue run), for 420 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 Longchamp 1650?
The highest lift, Lauzière, tops out at 2,516 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 42 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 42 km.
How much is a lift pass in Longchamp 1650?
The adult day pass for the Valmorel - Le Grand Domaine linked area costs €59.70 and the 6-day pass €299.90 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Valmorel).
How do I get to Longchamp 1650?
By road, Longchamp 1650 is 1 hr 04 from Chambéry (81 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Avre - La Chambre, 17 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 15 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Longchamp 1650?
6 hr 51 for 650 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is the snow reliable in Longchamp 1650?
Good snow from early February to mid-March. 93 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 355 cm of fresh snow, measured over 24 winters at the Météo-France “Les Menuires” station. This verdict rests on 24 winters of Météo-France measurements (1972-2023); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Longchamp 1650 good for beginners and families?
The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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