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Megève

Northern Alps Altitude 1,027 – 1,450 m Linked area Évasion Mont-Blanc Checked on 18 September 2026
1,027 mVillage altitude
1,450 mTop of the ski area
123 kmAlpine pistes
37Ski lifts
€30Adult day pass · 2026-2027

Megève is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France with a population of about 2,900 residents. The town is well known as a ski resort near Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Conceived in the 1920s as a French alternative to St. Moritz by the Rothschilds, it was the first purpose-built resort in the Alps. Originally it was a prime destination for the French elite; it remains one of the most famous and affluent ski resorts in the world.

Flocon VertBest of the AlpsOfficially classified tourist resort (France) Full page in French →
Megève — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

SkiRadar ratings

How ratings are computed →Computed on 18 September 2026

Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 French resorts we cover — 5 stars means “among the best in France on this point”, not “perfect”. Nobody types these in.

  1. SnowCan you count on the snow?
    2 / 5

    Top of the ski area: 1,450 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,380 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 47 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 73%

  2. Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?
    4.5 / 5

    Km of pistes at the resort: 123 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 123 km · Lifts: 37 · Balance between piste levels: 95%

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    4 / 5

    Adult day pass: €30 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.24/km · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area

  4. Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?
    2.5 / 5

    Share of green and blue pistes: 59% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 2 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 6

  5. AccessIs it easy to get to?
    4.5 / 5

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 21 · Nearest railway station: 16 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 11 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 25

  6. Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?
    4.5 / 5

    Bars and pubs: 3 · Nightclubs: 1 · Restaurants: 27 · Upcoming events: 5 · Collective tourist beds: 1,545 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?
    4.5 / 5

    5-star hotels: 2 · 4-star hotels: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 78% · Spas and saunas: 1 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 1 · Adult day pass: €30 — 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 (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; 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).

Snow and opening

7-day forecast → Snow report →
Status unknown

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.

7-day forecast

Village 1,027 m · top 1,450 m

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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.

Average snow depth by month

Good snow from January to March.

Météo-France measurements · 6 winters (2016-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.3 h · Dec 5.7 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.5 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November—no record
  2. December—no record
  3. January82 cmGood skiing · 100%
  4. February70 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March73 cmGood skiing · 92%
  6. April—no record
  7. May—no record

30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.

  • Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
  • Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
  • Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two
Météo-France snow observation network (poste nivo « LA GIETTAZ » (1217 m, à 7.5 km)) — total snow depth recorded by the resort observers, open archive. During the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of readings with at least 30 cm on the ground; “—”: month without readings.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

27 complete winters measured, from 1993-1994 to 2022-2023 — on average 47 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “COMBLOUX” station (1183 m, 4.1 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 18 %
  2. 16-31 Dec19 cmInsufficient · 32 %
  3. 1-15 Jan23 cmInsufficient · 31 %
  4. 16-31 Jan35 cmVariable · 53 %
  5. 1-15 Feb39 cmVariable · 59 %
  6. 16-29 Feb38 cmVariable · 53 %
  7. 1-15 Mar30 cmInsufficient · 43 %
  8. 16-31 Mar14 cmInsufficient · 24 %
  9. 1-15 Apr4 cmInsufficient · 3 %
Best winter of the series
2012-2013 — 119 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2000-2001 — 1 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 292 cm a winter on average, spread over 29 days of snowfall. Measured over 27 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
62 cm — 1995-1996
Snowiest winter
1998-1999 — 585 cm
Leanest winter
2010-2011 — 96 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “COMBLOUX” station (1183 m, 4.1 km away), from the open “Daily climatological data” dataset (Open Licence 2.0). The season is counted from 1 December to 15 April; only winters with at least 95 % of those 136 days measured are kept, so no figure here rests on a handful of readings. The reading is taken at 1183 m. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails. Snowfall figures are the fresh snow depth over 24 hours recorded at the same station (the HNEIGEF column): a day of snowfall is a day with 1 cm or more, and only winters measured 95 % of the time on that column are counted — which is why the record can be longer or shorter than the one for snow on the ground. More snow always falls than remains: some melts, settles or blows away.

The ski area

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144 pistes, by level — 123 km

40 green45 blue44 red15 black
Skiable vertical
70 m (1,380 m → 1,450 m)
Lifts
2 cable cars, 6 gondolas, 11 chairlifts, 17 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
Cross-country skiing
11 named trails — 43 km of marked loops (32 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Megeve Mont Arbois area, 1.2 km from the resort
See the trails(11)
TrailLevelLength
Megeve-Bettex-St.Nicolasintermediate20 km
Livraz - Cote2000black4.5 km
Planelletred3.6 km
Javenblack2.5 km
Livrazgreen2.5 km
Planayblack2 km
La Croixblue1.8 km
Le Laitblue1.7 km
Odiern/a1.6 km
Le Mazred1.5 km
Petit Vorasset · Megeve Mont Arboiseasy1.3 km
OpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
Snowpark
Yes
Without skis
0 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs
Piste aspect
N 26% · E 36% · S 9% · W 29% (descent direction of 156 OSM pistes, terrain model)
Mountain restaurants
Ideal (1805 m) · Super Megeve (1755 m) · Chalet Sauvage (1743 m) · Chez Marie (1635 m) · Face au Mont-Blanc (1565 m) · Le Cœur d'Or (1519 m) · La Petite Fontaine (1407 m) · Le Relais des Fermes (1303 m)

Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.

Lift passes (2026-2027) detail →

Adult passPrice
1 day€30
Child, 1 day€25

Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Price list of the linked area, read on Portes du Mont-Blanc. Official price list ↗

The ski area in figures

Measured on 9 September 2026
3 kmLongest piste — Mandarines (green), 530 m of vertical
604 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,256 → 1,651 m, 2 km
2,014 mHighest lift top — TS de la Cote 2000 (chairlift), national lift register
54,670Total lift capacity, people per hour — 39 installations: 1 aerial tramway, 6 gondolas, 11 chairlifts, 15 drag lifts, 6 magic carpets
37 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1933, newest 2024
3,000Biggest lift, people per hour — TSD l'Idéal Sport (detachable chairlift, 1987)
100 kmTotal length of lifts — 110 lifts mapped
14,636 haSki area boundary (OSM)
2,893Inhabitants — Megève (INSEE 74173)

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 Megève only (“MEGEVE”), magic carpets included.

Staying and hiring gear in Megève

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Stay & accommodation

Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
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Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
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VVF
Family holiday villages, kids’ clubs included.
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Ski hire

Sport 2000 Location
Skis, boots and helmets booked online, collected in a resort shop.
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Skiset
Network of ski-hire shops in the resorts.
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Live webcams

All webcams (9) →
La Livraz Open at the operator ↗
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RochebruneSkaping
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AlpetteSkaping
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Lac D ArboisSkaping
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Cote 2000Skaping
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Rochebrune · PanoramiqueSkaping
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Mont D ArboisSkaping
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FontaineSkaping
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VillageSkaping

Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 12 September 2026.

Piste map

Open on OpenSnowMap ↗

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 Megève

From Paris: 6 hr 27 (604 km) by road.

By road

  • From Genève: 1 hr 00 · 69 km
  • From Annecy: 1 hr 12 · 59 km
  • From Chambéry: 1 hr 14 · 85 km
  • From Grenoble: 1 hr 30 · 115 km
  • From Lyon: 2 hr 24 · 184 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence: 2 hr 33 · 207 km
  • From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 57 · 233 km
  • From Besançon: 3 hr 29 · 243 km
  • From Dijon: 3 hr 36 · 325 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 17 · 352 km
  • From Montpellier: 4 hr 40 · 412 km
  • From Marseille: 4 hr 45 · 421 km
  • From Strasbourg: 5 hr 24 · 461 km
  • From Nancy: 5 hr 38 · 528 km
  • From Nice: 5 hr 50 · 487 km
  • From Perpignan: 6 hr 02 · 560 km
  • From Paris: 6 hr 27 · 604 km
  • From Toulouse: 6 hr 58 · 646 km
  • From Bordeaux: 8 hr 15 · 739 km
  • From Pau: 8 hr 52 · 836 km

Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.

By train

Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station

regional station · then 16 min drive (13 km)

Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 11 by road.

  • From Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station (stop “Gare”): line Y83 — SALLANCHES → PRAZ → FLUMET (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 24 min to the “Supermarché” stop — 11 departures a day on weekdays, 13 a day at weekends · first 07:00, last 19:30 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗

Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.

By plane

  • Genève (GVA): 1 hr 25 by road · 78 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 25 by road · 93 km

Take me there

These links open the app with Megève as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.

Charging an electric car

19 charging stations within 2 km

47 charging points · up to 150 kW

  • SH DU PADDOCK · RAIDEN · 6 points · 44 kW · 0.1 km
  • MEGEVE - Rue de la Poste · EASYCHARGE · 3 points · 24 kW · 0.1 km
  • Mairie de Megève · Sowatt Solutions · 9 points · 22 kW · 0.2 km
  • ALFEN 2x22 MAIRIE DE MEGÈVE B · SOWATT SOLUTIONS · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.2 km
  • ALFEN 2x22 MAIRIE DE MEGÈVE A · SOWATT SOLUTIONS · 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 September 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.

Off-piste & ski touring

The resorts for off-piste skiing →
1 Marked off-piste itineraries · 2 km
25 km Ski touring routes
70 m Skiable vertical · top 1,450 m

Named itineraries: Piste Emile Allais

Safety. Off-piste terrain is neither marked nor made safe by the resort: a transceiver, a shovel, a probe and reading the avalanche bulletin are the minimum — and going with a mountain guide is better still. Today's avalanche risk (Météo-France scale of 1 to 5) will appear here during the season.

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

Resorts for ski touring →

12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Megève — up to 840 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
Rochebrune · Par les pistesn/a · F603 m1,150 → 1,754 mNE2.7 km
Col du Jaillet · Par la Croix des Salles1.3 · F500 m1,249 → 1,723 mW3.1 km
Sommet des Salles · Depuis Ormaret par les pistesn/a · F660 m1,080 → 1,757 mE3.3 km
Le Christomet · Versant NE par les pistes2.1 · E1 · F473 m1,380 → 1,853 mNE3.3 km
L'Alpette · Par la Piste Emile Allais, depuis Cassioz2.3 · E1 · PD840 m1,030 → 1,871 mNW3.4 km
Petit Croisse Baulet · Depuis Megève ou Combloux1.3 · E1 · F600 m1,402 → 2,009 mSE3.5 km
Le Christomet · versant S, par le mont du Villard2.3 · E2 · PD823 m1,030 → 1,853 mS3.8 km
Crêt de Véry · Combe NW2.3 · E1 · PD+719 m1,320 → 2,039 mNW4.7 km
Le Poivre · Face N4.1 · E1 · D800 m1,500 → 2,283 mN5 km
Le Sangle · Arête NE et face N4.3 · D-673 m1,320 → 1,993 mn/a5 km
Le Sangle · Face En/a673 m1,320 → 1,993 mE5 km
Le Sangle · Face N4.2 · E3 · D-673 m1,320 → 1,993 mN5 km
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 September 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗

Beyond skiing at Megève

Toboggan runs

Ice rink

Swimming pool

Spa and thermal baths

Paragliding

Museum

  • Musée de l'Ermitage du Calvaire · Megève · 0.6 km away
  • Musée digital - L'agriculture de montagne et nos savoir-faire fromagers · Flumet · 7.7 km away
  • Pile Pont Expo · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 8 km away
  • 2KM3 Acte II · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 8.1 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.

Practical information

Collective accommodation

1,545 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels

  • 24 hotels · 802 rooms (10 × 5★, 5 × 4★, 6 × 3★, 3 × 2★)
  • 3 holiday villages and family centres · 319 bed spaces
  • 3 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,226 bed spaces
  • 1 campsite · 12 pitches

Commune: Megève · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗

Tourist office

Office de tourisme

Ski school

ESF Megeve

📞 04 50 21 00 97

🌐 megeve-ski.com

364 instructors

🇬🇧 306 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available

🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in Megève →

Days without skiing

  • Ice rink · Patinoire de plein air
  • Cinema · Le Panoramic
  • Swimming pool · Bassin intérieur
  • Swimming pool · Petit bain
  • Swimming pool · Pataugeoire intérieure
  • Ice rink · Patinoire

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.

What's on around Megève

All events →

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.

Nearby resorts

Portes du Mont-Blanc 4 kmDomaine de Praz sur Arly 4 kmCombloux 5 kmCordon 7 kmFlumet - Saint-Nicolas-la-Chapelle 8 kmSaint-Nicolas-de-Véroce 8 km

Frequently asked questions

How high is Megève?

Megève sits at 1,027 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,450 m.

How many kilometres of pistes does Megève have?

Megève has 123 km of pistes served by 37 lifts, within the linked Évasion Mont-Blanc area (OpenStreetMap survey).

What is the longest piste in Megève?

The longest piste is Mandarines: 3 km (green run), for 530 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 Megève?

The highest lift, TS de la Cote 2000 (chairlift), tops out at 2,014 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.

How many lifts does Megève have, and what is their capacity?

The French national register of mechanical lifts records 39 installations at Megève (1 aerial tramway, 6 gondolas, 11 chairlifts, 15 drag lifts, 6 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 54,670 people per hour, of which 3,000 for TSD l'Idéal Sport alone. The fleet spans 1933 to 2024, an average age of 37 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 Megève?

The adult day pass costs €30 (2026-2027, read on the official price list, shared with Portes du Mont-Blanc).

How do I get to Megève?

By road, Megève is 1 hr 00 from Genève (69 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Sallanches - Combloux - Megève, 16 min by road from the resort. From Sallanches - Combloux - Megève station, line Y83 — SALLANCHES → PRAZ → FLUMET (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie) reaches the “Supermarché” stop in 24 min, 11 departures a day on weekdays, 13 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 25 away.

How long is the drive from Paris to Megève?

6 hr 27 for 604 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 Megève?

Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; in season the daily report prevails.

Is Megève good for beginners and families?

59% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.

Full page in French. The French page carries the editorial guides and a few extra readings; every figure, webcam and price on this page is the same one. Megève in French →

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