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

Open in a maps app

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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

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