Mont-Saxonnex
Off season1,045 mVillage altitude
1,559 mTop of the ski area
9 kmAlpine pistes
7Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Mont-Saxonnex is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 1,045 m and the ski area rises to 1,559 m, a skiable vertical of 522 m.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 18 September 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.
Right now at the LE GRAND-BORNAND station (1,430 m)
Source: Météo-France, LE GRAND-BORNAND weather station, 8.5 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-January to late March. 102 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 444 cm of fresh snow, measured over 23 winters at the Météo-France “Le Grand Bornand” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 23 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,045 m · top 1,559 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 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,559 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,037 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 102 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 87%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 9 km · Lifts: 7 · Balance between piste levels: 77%
- 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?1.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 59% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 20 · Nearest railway station: 14 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 06
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 1 · Restaurants: 3 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 0 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · 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).
17 pistes, by level
4 green6 blue7 red0 black
- Skiable vertical
- 522 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 5 named trails — 18 km of marked loops (9.5 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 5.2 km from the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap; top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 20261 kmLongest piste — Les Blanchots (blue), 100 m of vertical
171 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,219 → 1,049 m, 1 km
1,559 mHighest lift top — TK de la Pyramide (platter lift), national lift register
4,232Total lift capacity, people per hour — 7 installations: 7 drag lifts
44 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1960, newest 2020
880Biggest lift, people per hour — TK des Mouilles (platter lift, 1960)
3 kmTotal length of lifts — 6 lifts mapped
188 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,622Inhabitants — Mont-Saxonnex (INSEE 74189)
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 Mont-Saxonnex only (“MONT SAXONNEX”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Mont-Saxonnex
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Collective accommodation
- 1 hotel · 11 rooms
Commune: Mont-Saxonnex · 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 Mont-Saxonnex
Swimming pool
- Centre Nautique "Guy Châtel" de la CCFG · Ayse · 6 km away
Paragliding
- Terrain d'atterrissage de parapente de Brison/Solaison · Brizon · 3.5 km away
- Aire de décollage de parapente de Brison/Solaison · Brizon · 3.7 km away
- Terrain d'atterrissage de parapente du Noiret · Saint-Sigismond · 7.3 km away
- Ecole de parapente les Choucas · Mieussy · 9.8 km away
Museum
- Micro-Folie · Marnaz · 3.3 km away
- Musée de l'Horlogerie et du Décolletage · Cluses · 7 km away
Cinema
- Ciné-Château · Bonneville · 7 km away
- Cinétoiles - Cinéma Art & Essais · Cluses · 7.1 km away
- Ciné Cluses · Cluses · 7.4 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
Ski school
ESF Mont Saxonnex
7 instructors
🇬🇧 6 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Office du 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 → 1 Marked off-piste itineraries · 0 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 Mont-Saxonnex — up to 2,100 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac Bénit · depuis les Planets | 1.2 · E1 · F | 500 m | 1,050 → 1,501 m | N | 2.6 km |
| Petit Bargy · Par le lac Bénit | 3.2 · E2 · AD | 950 m | 1,220 → 2,098 m | N | 2.9 km |
| Grand Bargy · Par la Combe N d'Encrenaz | 3.2 · E2 · AD | 1,120 m | 1,230 → 2,301 m | N | 3.2 km |
| Grand Bargy · Couloir NW | 4.3 · E2 · D+ | 950 m | 1,250 → 2,301 m | NW | 3.2 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 September 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 Mont-Saxonnex
From Paris: 6 hr 08 (574 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 41 min · 39 km
- From Annecy: 54 min · 63 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 21 · 104 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 55 · 160 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 16 · 182 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 53 · 241 km
- From Valence: 2 hr 53 · 262 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 09 · 213 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 16 · 295 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 58 · 352 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 00 · 467 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 05 · 476 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 05 · 430 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 19 · 498 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 01 · 504 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 08 · 574 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 22 · 615 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 18 · 701 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 57 · 739 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 12 · 891 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Marignier station
regional station · then 14 min drive (11 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 52 min by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 20 September 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
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 06 by road · 47 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 25 by road · 103 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
- MONT SAXONNEX - 89 route de Cluses, Chemin du Bugnon · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.6 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.
The area offers 9 km of alpine pistes, 17 marked pistes (4 green, 6 blue, 7 red), 7 ski lifts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 1 km (Les Blanchots) and the highest lift tops out at 1,544 m.
Access: 41 min by road from Genève and 14 min from Marignier railway station.
1 official webcam shows the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Mont-Saxonnex?
Mont-Saxonnex sits at 1,045 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,559 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Mont-Saxonnex have?
Mont-Saxonnex has 9 km of slopes, 7 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Mont-Saxonnex?
The longest piste is Les Blanchots: 1 km (blue run), for 100 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 Mont-Saxonnex?
The highest lift, TK de la Pyramide (platter lift), tops out at 1,559 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Mont-Saxonnex have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 7 installations at Mont-Saxonnex (7 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 4,232 people per hour, of which 880 for TK des Mouilles alone. The fleet spans 1960 to 2020, an average age of 44 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 Mont-Saxonnex?
By road, Mont-Saxonnex is 41 min from Genève (39 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Marignier, 14 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 Genève, 1 hr 06 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Mont-Saxonnex?
6 hr 08 for 574 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
What time do the lifts open in Mont-Saxonnex?
Lifts are announced open from 09:00 to 17:00 (saison 2025-2026 · du samedi 20 décembre 2025 au 08 mars 2026), according to the official website (read on 15 September 2026).
Is the snow reliable in Mont-Saxonnex?
Good snow from mid-January to late March. 102 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 444 cm of fresh snow, measured over 23 winters at the Météo-France “Le Grand Bornand” station. This verdict rests on 23 winters of Météo-France measurements (1993-2019); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Mont-Saxonnex good for beginners and families?
59% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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