Pelvoux Vallouise
Off season1,461 mVillage altitude
2,221 mTop of the ski area
17 kmAlpine pistes
8Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Pelvoux Vallouise is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of Vallouise-Pelvoux. The village sits at 1,461 m and the ski area rises to 2,221 m, a skiable vertical of 919 m.
Live webcams
All webcams (1) →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. Checked on 12 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 PUY-ST-VINCENT station (1,388 m)
Source: Météo-France, PUY-ST-VINCENT weather station, 4 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Reliable snow mainly in the second half of February; more irregular the rest of the winter. 77 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 276 cm of fresh snow, measured over 56 winters at the Météo-France “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 56 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,461 m · top 2,221 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?3 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,221 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,302 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 77 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 89%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 17 km · Lifts: 8 · Balance between piste levels: 87%
- 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: 68% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 0 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 50 · Nearest railway station: 39 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 2 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 41
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 4 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 7 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 242 — 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).
22 pistes, by level
4 green11 blue5 red2 black
- Skiable vertical
- 919 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 8 km of nordic trails
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 20262 kmLongest piste — Crête (red), 406 m of vertical
409 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,220 → 1,811 m, 1 km
2,221 mHighest lift top — Crete (chairlift), national lift register
7,095Total lift capacity, people per hour — 8 installations: 2 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts
25 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1974, newest 2018
1,695Biggest lift, people per hour — Preron (chairlift, 2012)
2 kmTotal length of lifts — 3 lifts mapped
126 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,138Inhabitants — Vallouise-Pelvoux (INSEE 05101)
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 Pelvoux Vallouise only (“PELVOUX”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Pelvoux Vallouise
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Collective accommodation
242 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 5 hotels · 83 rooms (2 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 142 bed spaces
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 100 bed spaces
- 4 campsites · 360 pitches
Commune: Vallouise-Pelvoux · 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 Pelvoux Vallouise
Paragliding
- Parapente "Pollen" · Vallouise-Pelvoux · 2.9 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
Tourist office
Bureau d'information de Vallouise
📍 05290
🌐 paysdesecrins.com/en/practical-information/pays-des-ecrins-tourist-offices
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 Pelvoux Vallouise — up to 1,900 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Rouya · Versant E | n/a · AD | 1,595 m | 1,235 → 2,750 m | E | 0.8 km |
| La Rouya · Couloir N en traversée | 4.3 · E2 · D+ | 500 m | 1,240 → 2,730 m | N | 0.8 km |
| La Blanche · versant E par le Chastellet | 2.1 · E2 · PD | 1,353 m | 1,600 → 2,953 m | E | 1.1 km |
| Belle Vue · Versant W | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 675 m | 1,235 → 1,909 m | W | 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 Pelvoux Vallouise
From Paris: 8 hr 40 (713 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 51 · 140 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 01 · 186 km
- From Annecy: 3 hr 30 · 233 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 47 · 229 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 50 · 260 km
From other major cities (14)
- From Genève: 4 hr 00 · 270 km
- From Lyon: 4 hr 03 · 242 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 36 · 291 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 08 · 383 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 55 · 443 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 56 · 411 km
- From Besançon: 6 hr 14 · 473 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 30 · 530 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 26 · 617 km
- From Nancy: 8 hr 02 · 654 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 15 · 660 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 40 · 713 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 20 · 807 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 49 · 859 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
L'Argentière Les Écrins station
halt · then 39 min drive (15 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 hr 51 by road.
- From L'Argentière Les Écrins station (stop “Giratoire de la Gare”): line 542 — 542 _ PELVOUX-VALLOUISE-L'ARGENTIERE-BRIANCON (ZOU ! Proximité), 14 min to the “Le Poët” stop — 2 departures a day on weekdays · first 12:45, last 18:45 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.
By plane
- Turin-Caselle (TRN): 2 hr 41 by road · 146 km
- Cuneo (CUF): 3 hr 24 by road · 209 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Pelvoux Vallouise 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 September 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 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.
What's on around Pelvoux Vallouise
All events →-
2 October 2026 · 18:30
Rencontre et dédicace avec Éric Savoldelli
Bibliothèque municipale Vallouise-Pelvoux · Vallouise-Pelvoux
Biblis en folie 2026
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Hautes-Alpes” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Puy-Saint-Vincent (1.6 km)
Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.
The area offers 17 km of alpine pistes, 22 marked pistes (4 green, 11 blue, 5 red, 2 black), 8 ski lifts. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 2 km (Crête) and the highest lift tops out at 2,220 m.
Access: 2 h 51 by road from Grenoble and 39 min from L'Argentière Les Écrins railway station.
1 official webcam shows the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Pelvoux Vallouise?
Pelvoux Vallouise sits at 1,461 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,221 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Pelvoux Vallouise have?
Pelvoux Vallouise has 17 km of slopes, 8 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Pelvoux Vallouise?
The longest piste is Crête: 2 km (red run), for 406 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 Pelvoux Vallouise?
The highest lift, Crete (chairlift), tops out at 2,221 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Pelvoux Vallouise have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 8 installations at Pelvoux Vallouise (2 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 7,095 people per hour, of which 1,695 for Preron alone. The fleet spans 1974 to 2018, an average age of 25 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 Pelvoux Vallouise?
By road, Pelvoux Vallouise is 2 hr 51 from Grenoble (140 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is L'Argentière Les Écrins, 39 min by road from the resort. From L'Argentière Les Écrins station, line 542 — 542 _ PELVOUX-VALLOUISE-L'ARGENTIERE-BRIANCON (ZOU ! Proximité) reaches the “Le Poët” stop in 14 min, 2 departures a day on weekdays. The nearest airport is Turin-Caselle, 2 hr 41 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Pelvoux Vallouise?
8 hr 40 for 713 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 Pelvoux Vallouise?
Reliable snow mainly in the second half of February; more irregular the rest of the winter. 77 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 276 cm of fresh snow, measured over 56 winters at the Météo-France “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station. This verdict rests on 56 winters of Météo-France measurements (1969-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Pelvoux Vallouise good for beginners and families?
68% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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