Morillon
2,046 mVillage altitude
2,108 mTop of the ski area
265 kmLinked pistes · Grand Massif
12Ski lifts
€63Adult day pass · Grand Massif · 2026-2027
Morillon is a French commune in Haute-Savoie (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region), a winter and summer tourist resort.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 4 October 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.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early February to mid-April. 102 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “AIGUILLES ROUGES-NIVOSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 27 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 2,046 m · top 2,108 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: 2,108 m · Bottom of the pistes: 681 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 102 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 80%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 265 km · Lifts: 12
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €63 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.24/km · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 79% · Magic carpets: 2 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 30 · Nearest railway station: 18 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 15
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 5 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 15 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 1,155 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 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 · Adult day pass: €63 — 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) →€1,316 Season€50.40 Child, 1 day€30.50 Beginner, 1 day€23 Pedestrian, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Grand Massif pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Flaine. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 1,427 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 22 km of marked loops (15 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Domaine Nordique d'Agy - Saint-Sigismond area, 2.7 km from the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan); 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 202611 kmLongest piste — Cascades (red), 1,594 m of vertical
1,594 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,376 → 781 m, 11 km
2,108 mHighest lift top — TSD Coulouvrier (detachable chairlift), national lift register
19,232Total lift capacity, people per hour — 12 installations: 1 gondola, 5 chairlifts, 4 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
27 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1966, newest 2024
3,300Biggest lift, people per hour — TSD du Sairon (detachable chairlift, 2022)
56 kmTotal length of lifts — 53 lifts mapped
5,962 haSki area boundary (OSM)
719Inhabitants — Morillon (INSEE 74190)
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 Morillon only (“MORILLON”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Morillon
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Collective accommodation
1,155 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 hotel · 22 rooms (1 × 3★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 368 bed spaces
- 4 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 787 bed spaces
Commune: Morillon · 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.
Ski hire
Skiset UK
Skiset’s UK site: ski hire in the resort shops, booked in English, paid in pounds.
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 Morillon
Ice rink
- Jardin de glace à la Patinoire de Samoëns · Samoëns · 3.5 km away
- Patinoire extérieure · Les Gets · 8.4 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine de Samoëns · Samoëns · 3 km away
- Espace piscine -Aquacîme · Arâches-la-Frasse · 6.9 km away
- Piscine de la Grande Ourse · Taninges · 9.3 km away
- Le Splash · OpenStreetMap
Paragliding
- Profeel parapente · Morillon · 0.1 km away
- Aire d'atterrissage de parapente · Samoëns · 2.9 km away
- ABC Spirale Parapente · Samoëns · 3.9 km away
- Ecole de parapente - Les Hirondailes · Samoëns · 3.9 km away
Museum
- Ferme Ecomusée du Clos Parchet · Samoëns · 2.8 km away
- Maison du Patrimoine · Taninges · 7 km away
- Espace Jacquem'Arts · Taninges · 7 km away
- Musée de l'Horlogerie et du Décolletage · Cluses · 8 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Cinébus · Taninges · 6.9 km away
- Ciné Cluses · Cluses · 7.5 km away
- Cinétoiles - Cinéma Art & Essais · Cluses · 7.8 km away
- Cinéma Le Club · Les Gets · 8.1 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. 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 Morillon - Grand Massif
65 instructors
🇬🇧 46 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Office de tourisme de Morillon
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 → 2 Marked off-piste itineraries · 3 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: ancien Piste rouge Velarge
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 Morillon — up to 1,700 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe des Biollaires · De Morillon | 1.3 · F | 1,011 m | 700 → 1,711 m | n/a | 3.4 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Depuis Morillon par les pistes | 2.1 · E1 · F | 1,030 m | 1,091 → 2,118 m | E | 3.9 km |
| La Bourgeoise · Versant SE - depuis la Combe Eméru | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 500 m | 1,287 → 1,770 m | SE | 4.9 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Pointe de la Corne en circuit. | n/a · PD- | 710 m | 1,615 → 2,118 m | N | 5.1 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
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 Morillon
From Paris: 6 hr 17 (588 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 50 min · 54 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 03 · 77 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 31 · 119 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 05 · 175 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 25 · 197 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 03 · 255 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 03 · 277 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 19 · 228 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 26 · 309 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 08 · 364 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 10 · 481 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 14 · 445 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 15 · 491 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 28 · 513 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 07 · 509 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 17 · 588 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 31 · 629 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 27 · 715 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 06 · 754 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 22 · 905 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Marignier station
regional station · then 18 min drive (15 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 01 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
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 15 by road · 62 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 34 by road · 118 km
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Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
6 charging points · up to 24 kW
- MORILLON - Lac bleu · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 24 kW · 0.4 km
- MORILLON - Parking des Esserts · EASYCHARGE · 4 points · 22 kW · 2 km
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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Morillon?
Morillon sits at 2,046 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,108 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Morillon have?
From Morillon you can ski 265 km of slopes across Grand Massif, 12 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Morillon?
The longest piste is Cascades: 11 km (red run), for 1,594 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 Morillon?
The highest lift, TSD Coulouvrier (detachable chairlift), tops out at 2,108 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Morillon have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 12 installations at Morillon (1 gondola, 5 chairlifts, 4 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 19,232 people per hour, of which 3,300 for TSD du Sairon alone. The fleet spans 1966 to 2024, an average age of 27 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 much is a lift pass in Morillon?
The adult day pass for the Grand Massif linked area costs €63 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Flaine).
How do I get to Morillon?
By road, Morillon is 50 min from Genève (54 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Marignier, 18 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 15 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Morillon?
6 hr 17 for 588 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is the snow reliable in Morillon?
Good snow from early February to mid-April. 102 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “AIGUILLES ROUGES-NIVOSE” station. This verdict rests on 27 winters of Météo-France measurements (1997-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
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