Manigod
1,030 mBottom of the pistes
1,670 mTop of the ski area
9Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass. Not retained (conflicting sources): km of alpine pistes.
Manigod is a French commune located in the département of Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →MerdassierSkaping
CabeauSkaping
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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. 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
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from early January to mid-March. 70 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 349 cm of fresh snow, measured over 36 winters at the Météo-France “CLUSAZ (LA)” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 36 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,030 m · top 1,670 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
Top of the ski area: 1,670 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,030 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 70 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 67%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?n/a
Not rated: neither the resort nor the map gives the length of its pistes.
- 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?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 66% · Magic carpets: 1 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 18 · Nearest railway station: 30 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 13
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 0 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 210 — 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: 58% · 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).
- Skiable vertical
- 640 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 3 named trails — 2.9 km of marked loops, 2.9 km from the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, 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 20264 kmLongest piste — Les Prises (blue), 395 m of vertical
704 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,980 → 1,276 m, 2 km
1,670 mHighest lift top — TK du Grand Cret (platter lift), national lift register
7,699Total lift capacity, people per hour — 9 installations: 3 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
36 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1968, newest 2021
2,200Biggest lift, people per hour — TS de La Tête de Câbeau (chairlift, 2015)
32 kmTotal length of lifts — 45 lifts mapped
n/aSki area boundary (OSM)
1,000Inhabitants — Manigod (INSEE 74160)
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 Manigod only (“MANIGOD CROIX FRY”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Manigod
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Collective accommodation
210 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 4 hotels · 55 rooms (2 × 4★, 1 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 210 bed spaces
Commune: Manigod · 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 Manigod
Toboggan runs
- Luge des Prés · La Clusaz · 6.2 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine municipale · Thônes · 4.5 km away
- Espace Aquatique La Clusaz · La Clusaz · 6.9 km away
Museum
- Musée Patrimonial du Pays de Thônes - Fondateurs : François et Lucien Cochat · Thônes · 4.3 km away
- Salle des maquettes des Amis du Val de Thônes · Thônes · 4.3 km away
- Le Hameau des Alpes · La Clusaz · 5.8 km away
- Ecomusée du Bois et de la Forêt · Thônes · 5.9 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Edelweiss · Thônes · 4.1 km away
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. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Tourist office
Office de tourisme
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 → 0 Marked off-piste itineraries
7 km Ski touring routes
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 Manigod — up to 1,375 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montagne de Sulens · Intégrale double des arêtes | n/a · AD- | 1,375 m | 1,140 → 1,839 m | NE | 2.5 km |
| Montagne de Sulens · Tour de Sulens et Traversée Petit Sulens | n/a · PD | 1,100 m | 1,120 → 1,839 m | n/a | 2.5 km |
| Montagne de Sulens · Combe N | 3.1 · E1 · AD- | 720 m | 1,120 → 1,839 m | N | 2.5 km |
| Montagne de Sulens · Couloirs E | 3.3 · AD+ | 720 m | 1,120 → 1,839 m | E | 2.5 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 Manigod
From Paris: 6 hr 19 (566 km) by road.
By road
- From Annecy: 36 min · 27 km
- From Genève: 1 hr 04 · 65 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 10 · 80 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 36 · 120 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 09 · 167 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 40 · 213 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 42 · 216 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 24 · 237 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 27 · 287 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 02 · 333 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 47 · 417 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 52 · 427 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 19 · 455 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 30 · 490 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 08 · 565 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 13 · 505 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 19 · 566 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 04 · 652 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 00 · 723 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 59 · 842 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Pringy station
halt · then 30 min drive (27 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 36 min 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 13 by road · 79 km
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 17 by road · 70 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
2 charging points · up to 22 kW
- MANIGOD - Chef Lieu · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.2 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 Manigod?
The Manigod pistes start at 1,030 m, and its ski area rises to 1,670 m.
What is the longest piste in Manigod?
The longest piste is Les Prises: 4 km (blue run), for 395 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 Manigod?
The highest lift, TK du Grand Cret (platter lift), tops out at 1,670 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Manigod have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 9 installations at Manigod (3 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 7,699 people per hour, of which 2,200 for TS de La Tête de Câbeau alone. The fleet spans 1968 to 2021, an average age of 36 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 Manigod?
By road, Manigod is 36 min from Annecy (27 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Pringy, 30 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 13 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Manigod?
6 hr 19 for 566 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 Manigod?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from early January to mid-March. 70 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 349 cm of fresh snow, measured over 36 winters at the Météo-France “CLUSAZ (LA)” station. This verdict rests on 36 winters of Météo-France measurements (1988-2024); in season the daily report prevails.
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