Getting to Monts Jura
Monts Jura is 1 h 18 by road from Genève (50 km), 5 h 57 from Paris, 52 min from Bellegarde-sur-Valserine railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Monts Jura is a ski resort in the Jura (Ain), in the commune of Lélex. The village sits at 1,182 m and the ski area rises to 1,659 m, a skiable vertical of 793 m.
Getting to Monts Jura
By road
- From Genève : 1 h 18 · 50 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 41 · 75 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 05 · 129 km
- From Chambéry : 2 h 11 · 138 km
- From Besançon : 2 h 45 · 137 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Grenoble : 2 h 45 · 193 km
- From Dijon : 2 h 54 · 179 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 54 · 189 km
- From Valence : 3 h 11 · 229 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 48 · 300 km
- From Nancy : 4 h 57 · 382 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 13 · 416 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 14 · 430 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 20 · 440 km
- From Paris : 5 h 57 · 521 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 36 · 578 km
- From Nice : 6 h 57 · 598 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 32 · 664 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 46 · 687 km
- From Pau : 9 h 26 · 854 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 52 min by road (31 km)
- From Bellegarde-sur-Valserine station (stop « Bellegarde - Gare SNCF ») : A53 — MIJOUX-VALSERHONE (REGION - cars Région Ain), 48 min to the “Grand Pré” stop — 2 departures a day on weekdays, 2 a day at weekends · first 11:15, last 18:14 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, Cars Région Ain · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 18 by road · 46 km
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS) : 1 h 56 by road · 124 km
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By electric car
1 charging location within 2 km
2charging points · up to22 kW
- Pays de Gex - ePremium - Lelex - Chapelle · SPIE CITYNETWORKS · 2points · 22 kW · 0.8 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 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