Getting to Montgenèvre
Montgenèvre is 1 h 59 by road from Chambéry (149 km), 7 h 46 from Paris, 16 min from Briançon railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Montgenèvre is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,860 m and the ski area rises to 2,581 m, a skiable vertical of 1,051 m.
Getting to Montgenèvre
By road
- From Chambéry : 1 h 59 · 149 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 12 · 127 km
- From Annecy : 2 h 28 · 196 km
- From Genève : 2 h 58 · 234 km
- From Lyon : 3 h 09 · 248 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 3 h 09 · 216 km
- From Marseille : 3 h 42 · 272 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 43 · 297 km
- From Nice : 4 h 37 · 372 km · avoids Col de Restefond, closed in winter
- From Montpellier : 5 h 00 · 395 km
- From Dijon : 5 h 01 · 449 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 02 · 416 km
- From Besançon : 5 h 18 · 407 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 22 · 543 km
- From Nancy : 7 h 09 · 660 km
- From Strasbourg : 7 h 13 · 624 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 18 · 629 km
- From Paris : 7 h 46 · 718 km
- From Bordeaux : 9 h 00 · 803 km
- From Pau : 9 h 13 · 819 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Briançon station
regional station · then 16 min by road (13 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 57 by road.
- From Briançon station (stop « BRIANCON- GARE SNCF/GARE ROUTIÈRE ») : LIGNE 5 — LIGNE 5 BRIANCON ↔ MONTGENEVRE (ALTIGO), 22 min to the “MONTGENEVRE- LES ALBERTS - BOIS DES ALBERTS” stop — 9 departures a day on weekdays, 6 a day at weekends · first 06:15, last 18:15 · timetable horaires d’été, du 13 septembre 2026 au 29 novembre 2026, Altigo (Briançonnais) · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Turin-Caselle (TRN) : 1 h 39 by road · 110 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 2 h 10 by road · 157 km
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By electric car
3 charging locations within 2 km
12charging points · up to170 kW
- MONTGENEVRE - Office de Tourisme · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.4 km
- MONTGENEVRE - Parking de l'obelisque · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.8 km
- MONTGENEVRE - Le Peychier · EASYCHARGE · 8points · 170 kW · 0.9 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute 05 (Hautes-Alpes) ↗ — 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 DU TOURISME and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September