Getting to Praz de Lys - Sommand
Praz de Lys - Sommand is 1 h 02 by road from Genève (52 km), 6 h 29 from Paris, 32 min from Marignier railway station.
Praz de Lys - Sommand is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Taninges. The village sits at 1,462 m and the ski area rises to 1,678 m, a skiable vertical of 248 m.
Getting to Praz de Lys - Sommand
By road
- From Genève : 1 h 02 · 52 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 16 · 86 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 44 · 128 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 18 · 183 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 37 · 195 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 16 · 264 km
- From Valence : 3 h 16 · 286 km
- From Besançon : 3 h 31 · 226 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 37 · 308 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 19 · 366 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 22 · 415 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 23 · 490 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 28 · 499 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 40 · 511 km
- From Nice : 6 h 21 · 518 km
- From Paris : 6 h 29 · 587 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 45 · 638 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 41 · 724 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 18 · 752 km
- From Pau : 9 h 35 · 914 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Marignier station
regional station · then 32 min by road (24 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 h 14 by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 27 by road · 60 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 47 by road · 127 km
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By electric car
2 charging locations within 2 km
4charging points · up to24 kW
- TANINGES - Route de Chevaly · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 0.3 km
- TANINGES (PRAZ DE LYS) - Route de la Ramaz · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.4 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 74 (Haute-Savoie) ↗ — 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.