Plaine Joux
1,360 mVillage altitude
1,723 mTop of the ski area
11 kmAlpine pistes
7Ski lifts
€25.50Adult day pass · 2025-2026
Plaine Joux is a locality in France situated in Haute-Savoie, in the commune of Passy, above Plateau d'Assy and the hamlet of Joux which gave it its name. Accessible by the departmental road 43 which ends there, it is home to the Passy Plaine-Joux winter sports resort for the practice of alpine and Nordic skiing, a free flight take-off area, climbing sites, a panorama over the Arve valley and the massif du Mont-Blanc, holiday camp centres in Guébriant, or even restaurants. The site can be reached on a hike from the bottom of the valley via various routes and it is one of the stages of the GRP Tour du Pays du Mont-Blanc and Tour des Fiz trail.
Live webcams
All webcams (2) →StationSkaping
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Official players of the resort, live image.
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 mid-January to late March. 115 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 10 winters at the Météo-France “FLAINE_SAPC” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 10 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,360 m · top 1,723 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: 1,723 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,330 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 115 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 88%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 11 km · Lifts: 7 · Balance between piste levels: 86%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €25.50 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €2.32/km · Adult 6-day pass: €121
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 75% · Magic carpets: 2 · Sledging runs: 1 · 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 40 · Nearest railway station: 20 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 10 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 31
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 5 · Upcoming events: 5 · Collective tourist beds: 540 — 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: 69% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €25.50 — 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 2025-2026
All prices (child, family, season) →€121 6 days€222 Season€22.50 Child, 1 day€10.50 Beginner, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2025-2026 season, the latest price list published. Official price list ↗
20 pistes, by level
9 green6 blue4 red1 black
- Skiable vertical
- 393 m
- Lifts
- 1 chairlift, 4 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone — Espace nouvelles Glisses
- Cross-country skiing
- 3 km of nordic trails
Ski-area figures — bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20262 kmLongest piste — Blanchot (red), 392 m of vertical
392 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,722 → 1,330 m, 2 km
1,649 mHighest lift top — Barmus (chairlift)
3 kmTotal length of lifts — 5 lifts mapped
190 haSki area boundary (OSM)
10,856Inhabitants — Passy (INSEE 74208)
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.
Staying and hiring gear in Plaine Joux
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Collective accommodation
540 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 3 hotels · 54 rooms (1 × 4★, 1 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 340 bed spaces
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 200 bed spaces
- 4 campsites · 507 pitches
Commune: Passy · 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 Plaine Joux
Without skis on — 1 sledging run
Ice rink
- Patinoire de Saint-Gervais · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 7.3 km away
- Patinoire des Houches · Les Houches · 8 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine de Marlioz · Passy · 5 km away
- Centre aquatique Sallanches Mont Blanc · Sallanches · 7.6 km away
- Piscine de Saint-Gervais · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 7.6 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Les Thermes de Saint-Gervais - Les cures thermales · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 6.6 km away
Paragliding
- Aérofiz parapente · Passy · 0 km away
- De Cimes en Ciel Parapente · Passy · 2.7 km away
- Fly Mont-Blanc - Parapente · Les Houches · 3.4 km away
- Elévation Parapente · Passy · 4.7 km away
Museum
- Maison du Lieutenant · Servoz · 2.4 km away
- Archipel Art Contemporain · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 6.8 km away
- Fresque François Durafour · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 6.9 km away
- La Cure · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 6.9 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma La Caméra · Passy · 2.8 km away
- Espace Animation · Les Houches · 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. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF Passy Plaine Joux
18 instructors
🇬🇧 11 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Maison de la Réserve Naturelle de Passy
📍 321 Chemin des Parchets, 74190 Passy
🌐 cen-haute-savoie.org/accueil-public/maison-reserve-naturelle-passy
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 → 4 Marked off-piste itineraries · 2 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Dérochoir
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 Plaine Joux — up to 1,945 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passage du Dérochoir · Versant S | 4.3 · E2 · D | 890 m | 1,360 → 2,240 m | S | 1 km |
| Le Tour des Ayères | 1.3 · E1 · F | 350 m | 1,360 → 1,641 m | SE | 1.1 km |
| Le Motet · Couloir du Gypaète | 5.2 · E2 · TD | 810 m | 1,292 → 2,100 m | E | 1.3 km |
| Pointe de la Mitraille · Depuis Flaine et retour par le col de Portette | 2.2 · E1 · PD+ | 1,300 m | 2,480 → 2,741 m | W | 2.2 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 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
Open the piste map (PDF, 1.7 MB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
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 Plaine Joux
From Paris: 6 hr 33 (608 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 1 hr 06 · 73 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 19 · 97 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 46 · 138 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 06 · 141 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 41 · 216 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 3 hr 10 · 234 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 18 · 275 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 35 · 247 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 41 · 329 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 24 · 384 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 17 · 439 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 22 · 448 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 27 · 436 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 44 · 532 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 52 · 480 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 33 · 608 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 38 · 586 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 34 · 673 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 22 · 773 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 29 · 863 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Chedde station
halt · then 20 min drive (11 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 17 by road.
- From Chedde station (stop “Prés Moulin”): line Y85 — SALLANCHES → PASSY (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 40 min to the “Guébriant” stop — 10 departures a day on weekdays, 8 a day at weekends · first 06:27, last 19:17 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.
By plane
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 31 by road · 81 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 50 by road · 137 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Plaine Joux 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 October 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 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 Plaine Joux?
Plaine Joux sits at 1,360 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,723 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Plaine Joux have?
Plaine Joux has 11 km of slopes, 7 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Plaine Joux?
The longest piste is Blanchot: 2 km (red run), for 392 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 Plaine Joux?
The highest lift, Barmus, tops out at 1,649 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 5 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 3 km.
How much is a lift pass in Plaine Joux?
The adult day pass costs €25.50 and the 6-day pass €121 (2025-2026 season, the latest price list published, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Plaine Joux?
By road, Plaine Joux is 1 hr 06 from Genève (73 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Chedde, 20 min by road from the resort. From Chedde station, line Y85 — SALLANCHES → PASSY (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie) reaches the “Guébriant” stop in 40 min, 10 departures a day on weekdays, 8 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 31 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Plaine Joux?
6 hr 33 for 608 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 Plaine Joux?
Good snow from mid-January to late March. 115 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 10 winters at the Météo-France “FLAINE_SAPC” station. This verdict rests on 10 winters of Météo-France measurements (2016-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Plaine Joux good for beginners and families?
75% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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