Luchon-Superbagnères
Off season · opens 4 December 20261,463 mBottom of the pistes
2,133 mTop of the ski area
31 kmAlpine pistes
14Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Superbagnères is a ski resort above the town of Bagnères-de-Luchon in the French department of Haute-Garonne in the Midi-Pyrénées region.
Luchon-Superbagnères webcams
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Webcams de la stationimages en direct sur la page officielle de la station
Luchon-Superbagnères broadcasts its images on its own page: the link takes you there. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 4 December 2026. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Avalanche danger
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to mid-February. 37 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 10 winters at the Météo-France “LOUDERVIELLE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 10 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,463 m · top 2,133 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: 2,133 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,463 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 37 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 25%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 31 km · Lifts: 14 · Balance between piste levels: 92%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: no official price list could be found.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 64% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 7 hr 12 · Nearest railway station: 1 hr 04 · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 48
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 6 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 431 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 — 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).
39 pistes, by level
7 green18 blue7 red7 black
- Skiable vertical
- 670 m
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20263 kmLongest piste — Les Marmottes (blue), 649 m of vertical
649 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,112 → 1,463 m, 3 km
2,133 mHighest lift top — Hount Estrete (chairlift), national lift register
16,660Total lift capacity, people per hour — 14 installations: 1 gondola, 5 chairlifts, 7 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
33 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1963, newest 2023
2,200Biggest lift, people per hour — Arbesquens (chairlift, 2010)
11 kmTotal length of lifts — 13 lifts mapped
441 haSki area boundary (OSM)
69Inhabitants — Saint-Aventin (INSEE 31470)
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 Luchon-Superbagnères only (“SUPERBAGNERES”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Luchon-Superbagnères
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Collective accommodation
431 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 431 bed spaces
Commune: Saint-Aventin · 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 Luchon-Superbagnères
Without skis on — 8 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs
Swimming pool
- Piscine des Thermes · 2.4 km away · OpenStreetMap
Cinema
- Le Rex · 2.6 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 Luchon-Superbagneres
59 instructors
🇬🇧 17 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Haute-Garonne Montagne
📍 24 Allées d'Étigny, 31110 Bagnères-de-Luchon
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 · 3 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Gouron · Les Dames · entrée bois des coqs · Bois des Coqs
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 Luchon-Superbagnères — up to 1,580 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pic de Céciré · Par les crêtes depuis Superbagnères | 3.3 · E1 · PD | 617 m | 1,786 → 2,403 m | NE | 1.8 km |
| Pic de Céciré · Couloir Sarrat | 4.1 | 600 m | 1,800 → 2,403 m | N | 1.8 km |
| Pic de Subescale · Depuis les granges de l'Espone | n/a · E1 · PD+ | 1,000 m | 1,453 → 2,436 m | E | 3 km |
| Pic de Céciré · Couloir Zébulon | 5.1 · E2 · TD- | 1,130 m | 1,465 → 2,403 m | E · NE | 3.4 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 Luchon-Superbagnères
From Paris: 9 hr 15 (835 km) by road.
By road
- From Pau: 2 hr 11 · 155 km
- From Toulouse: 2 hr 18 · 163 km
- From Perpignan: 4 hr 08 · 359 km
- From Bordeaux: 4 hr 11 · 359 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 36 · 394 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 6 hr 11 · 532 km
- From Marseille: 6 hr 17 · 556 km
- From Valence: 6 hr 26 · 591 km
- From Grenoble: 7 hr 23 · 683 km
- From Lyon: 7 hr 33 · 691 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 7 hr 37 · 570 km
- From Nice: 7 hr 54 · 714 km
- From Chambéry: 8 hr 08 · 742 km
- From Annecy: 8 hr 33 · 800 km
- From Genève: 9 hr 03 · 838 km
- From Dijon: 9 hr 06 · 828 km
- From Paris: 9 hr 15 · 835 km
- From Besançon: 9 hr 42 · 886 km
- From Nancy: 11 hr 13 · 1039 km
- From Strasbourg: 12 hr 05 · 1124 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Montréjeau - Gourdan-Polignan station
regional station · then 1 hr 04 drive (56 km)
Nearest main station: Tarbes, 1 hr 44 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
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées (LDE): 1 hr 48 by road · 124 km
- Pau-Pyrénées (PUF): 2 hr 16 by road · 158 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Luchon-Superbagnères as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 October 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.
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 Luchon-Superbagnères
All events →-
3 November 2026 – 2 December 2026
Les rendez-vous de la Transmission en Haute-Garonne
Bagnères-de-Luchon (31) · Bagnères-de-Luchon
4 réunions d'information
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Chambre d'agriculture de Haute-Garonne” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Peyragudes (10.8 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 Luchon-Superbagnères?
The Luchon-Superbagnères pistes start at 1,463 m, and its ski area rises to 2,133 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Luchon-Superbagnères have?
Luchon-Superbagnères has 31 km of slopes, 14 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Luchon-Superbagnères?
The longest piste is Les Marmottes: 3 km (blue run), for 649 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 Luchon-Superbagnères?
The highest lift, Hount Estrete (chairlift), tops out at 2,133 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Luchon-Superbagnères have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 14 installations at Luchon-Superbagnères (1 gondola, 5 chairlifts, 7 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 16,660 people per hour, of which 2,200 for Arbesquens alone. The fleet spans 1963 to 2023, an average age of 33 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 do I get to Luchon-Superbagnères?
By road, Luchon-Superbagnères is 2 hr 11 from Pau (155 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Montréjeau - Gourdan-Polignan, 1 hr 04 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 Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées, 1 hr 48 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Luchon-Superbagnères?
9 hr 15 for 835 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 Luchon-Superbagnères open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 4 December 2026 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Luchon-Superbagnères?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to mid-February. 37 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 10 winters at the Météo-France “LOUDERVIELLE” station. This verdict rests on 10 winters of Météo-France measurements (2016-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Luchon-Superbagnères good for beginners and families?
64% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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