Méribel
Off season · opens 5 December 20261,450 mVillage altitude
2,750 mTop of the ski area
600 kmLinked pistes · Les 3 Vallées
€84.20Adult day pass · Les 3 Vallées · 2026-2027
Not retained (conflicting sources): ski lifts.
Méribel is a ski resort in the Tarentaise Valley in the French Alps. Méribel refers to three neighbouring villages in the Les Allues commune of the Savoie department of France, near the town of Moûtiers, called Méribel Centre, Méribel-Mottaret and Méribel Village. The villages are within Vanoise National Park and a part of the Les Trois Vallées interlinked ski system.
Live webcams
All webcams (9) →Bouquetin — Méribel-MottaretWebcam-HD
Col de la Loze2,304 m
Versant Saulire2,310 m
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. 5 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 5 December 2026 and close on 18 April 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the ST-MARTIN DE BELLEVILLE station (1,443 m)
Source: Météo-France, ST-MARTIN DE BELLEVILLE weather station, 5.6 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 115 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 344 cm of fresh snow, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “Meribel Mottaret” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 27 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,450 m · top 2,750 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?4 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,750 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,450 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 115 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 600 km
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?2.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €84.20 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.14/km · Adult 6-day pass: €421 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 65% · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 41 · Nearest railway station: 19 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 27
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?4 / 5
Bars and pubs: 9 · Nightclubs: 2 · Restaurants: 27 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 3,841 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?4 / 5
5-star hotels: 1 · 4-star hotels: 3 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 53% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €84.20 — 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).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€421 6 days
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Les 3 Vallées pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Les Menuires. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 1,300 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 7 named trails — 69 km of marked loops (21 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 800 m from the resort
- Snowpark
- Yes
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); km of the linked area: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept) . 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 20268 kmLongest piste — Biolley (blue), 375 m of vertical
1,052 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,489 → 1,437 m, 4 km
2,916 mHighest lift top — Mont Vallon (gondola)
130 kmTotal length of lifts — 111 lifts mapped
15,583 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,736Inhabitants — Les Allues (INSEE 73015)
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.
Staying and hiring gear in Méribel
The partners covering this resort, shown side by side, and the shop to kit out before you leave. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.
Collective accommodation
3,841 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 20 hotels · 825 rooms (3 × 5★, 6 × 4★, 6 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 3 holiday villages and family centres · 502 bed spaces
- 10 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 3,339 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 15 pitches
Commune: Les Allues · 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.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
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 Méribel
Without skis on — 1 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 7 sledging runs
Toboggan runs
- Piste de luge (Courchevel 1850 - Courchevel Village) · Courchevel · 5.7 km away
- Piste de luge Moriond Racing · Courchevel · 7 km away
Swimming pool
- Parc Olympique · Les Allues · 0.8 km away
- Piscine en plein-air de la Tania · Courchevel · 4.1 km away
- Piscine publique · Brides-les-Bains · 5.9 km away
- Aquamotion · Courchevel · 6.6 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Le Grand Spa Thermal · Brides-les-Bains · 5.8 km away
- Les Thermes de Brides-Les-Bains · Brides-les-Bains · 5.8 km away
- Aquamotion - SPA · Courchevel · 6.6 km away
Paragliding
- Audacius by Prosneige Parapente · Les Allues · 0.8 km away
- A Parapente · Les Allues · 4.1 km away
- TandemTOP Paragliding · Courchevel · 5.6 km away
- Team FBI Parapente Tandem · Courchevel · 5.6 km away
Museum
- Musée des Allues · Les Allues · 3.5 km away
- Musée de Saint Martin, 150 ans d'histoire d'une haute-vallée de Savoie · Les Belleville · 5.4 km away
- Tour Sarrazine, musée · Bozel · 7.9 km away
- Galerie d'exposition / Patio au Centre Culturel Marius Hudry · Moûtiers · 9.5 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Méribel-Mottaret · Les Allues · 3.4 km away
- Cinéma Le Doron · Brides-les-Bains · 5.7 km away
- Cinéma "Le Rex" · Moûtiers · 9.6 km away
- Auditorium de Méribel · OpenStreetMap
Bowling
- Bowling Méribel · 0.8 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 Meribel Les Allues
375 instructors
🇬🇧 260 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- OFFICE DE TOURISME DE MERIBEL · Parc Olympique - 510 route Albert Gacon - Méribel - Centre, 73550 · +33(0)479086001 · info@meribel.net (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
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.
Resort data: declared by OFFICE DE TOURISME DE MERIBEL and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 10 Marked off-piste itineraries · 10 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Tétras · Bouc Blanc · Couloir Tournier · Grand Couloir · Couloir « Émile Allais » · Couloir « Sous le téléphérique »
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 Méribel — up to 1,350 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Verdet · La Combe Cure | n/a · PD | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | NE | 2.5 km |
| Le Verdet · Itinéraire de Béranger | n/a · PD- | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | NW | 2.5 km |
| Le Verdet · Itinéraire de Saint Martin | n/a · PD- | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | W | 2.5 km |
| Le Verdet · Saint Martin par Villarabout | n/a · PD- | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | W | 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
Open the piste map (PDF, 970 KB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
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 Méribel
From Paris: 7 hr 03 (663 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 16 · 94 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 31 · 87 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 32 · 123 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 13 · 134 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 26 · 192 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 36 · 216 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 00 · 241 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 18 · 393 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 19 · 358 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 33 · 306 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 43 · 420 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 48 · 429 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 04 · 568 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 09 · 507 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 25 · 604 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 28 · 523 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 00 · 654 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 03 · 663 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 17 · 747 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 55 · 844 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station
regional station · then 19 min drive (17 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 14 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 27 by road · 101 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 05 by road · 169 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Méribel 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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Méribel?
Méribel sits at 1,450 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,750 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Méribel have?
From Méribel you can ski 600 km of slopes across Les 3 Vallées.
What is the longest piste in Méribel?
The longest piste is Biolley: 8 km (blue run), for 375 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 Méribel?
The highest lift, Mont Vallon, tops out at 2,916 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 111 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 130 km.
How much is a lift pass in Méribel?
The adult day pass for the Les 3 Vallées linked area costs €84.20 and the 6-day pass €421 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Les Menuires).
How do I get to Méribel?
By road, Méribel is 1 hr 16 from Chambéry (94 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains, 19 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 27 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Méribel?
7 hr 03 for 663 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 Méribel open?
According to the dates declared by the resort (ANMSM feed), the resort opens on 5 December 2026 and closes on 18 April 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Méribel?
Good snow from early January to mid-April. 115 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 344 cm of fresh snow, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “Meribel Mottaret” station. This verdict rests on 27 winters of Météo-France measurements (1991-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
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