Getting to Menthières
Menthières is 58 min by road from Genève (58 km), 5 h 28 from Paris, 18 min from Bellegarde-sur-Valserine railway station.
Menthières is a ski resort in the Jura (Ain). The village sits at 1,093 m.
Getting to Menthières
By road
- From Genève : 58 min · 58 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 07 · 58 km
- From Lyon : 1 h 36 · 118 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 37 · 121 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 11 · 177 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 25 · 177 km
- From Dijon : 2 h 37 · 230 km
- From Valence : 2 h 42 · 217 km
- From Besançon : 2 h 49 · 247 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 19 · 288 km
- From Nancy : 4 h 40 · 434 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 45 · 418 km
- From Marseille : 4 h 51 · 428 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 10 · 439 km
- From Paris : 5 h 28 · 509 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 07 · 566 km
- From Nice : 6 h 28 · 586 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 03 · 653 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 17 · 675 km
- From Pau : 8 h 57 · 842 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Bellegarde-sur-Valserine station
main station, high-speed rail · then 18 min by road (15 km)
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 01 by road · 50 km
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS) : 1 h 27 by road · 112 km
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By electric car
No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 September 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute Ain ↗ — passes, snow chains, winter maintenance
- Bison Futé (national) ↗
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain municipalities (French “loi Montagne II”).
Driving times: OpenStreetMap (OSRM); stations: SNCF open data; airports: Wikidata — read on 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.
Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme du Pays de Gex and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September