Réallon
Réallon is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,000 m and the ski area rises to 2,115 m, a skiable vertical of 563 m.
The area offers 12 km of alpine pistes, 27 marked pistes (8 green, 10 blue, 8 red, 1 black), 6 ski lifts, plus a snowpark. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 1 km (Saturne) and the highest lift tops out at 2,111 m.
The resort holds the Flocon Vert label.
Access: 2 h 26 by road from Grenoble and 21 min from Chorges railway station.
1 official webcam shows the pistes live (on the French page).
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 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: 2,115 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,552 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 53 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 64%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 12 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 12 km · Lifts: 6 · Balance between piste levels: 87%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: “adult day pass” is missing from this page.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 67% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 12 · Nearest railway station: 21 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 52
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 4 · Upcoming events: 1 · Collective tourist beds: 94 — 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 · 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 (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; 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).
The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026 and close on 21 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Avalanche danger
7-day forecast
Village 1,000 m · top 2,115 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.
Average snow depth by month
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 7.2 h · Dec 6.7 h · Jan 7.1 h · Feb 8.3 h · Mar 9.7 h · Apr 10.6 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November—no record
- December32 cmVariable · 59%
- January40 cmVariable · 65%
- February49 cmVariable · 75%
- March43 cmVariable · 58%
- April—no record
- May—no record
30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.
- Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
- Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
- Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two
Snow actually measured, winter by winter
52 complete winters measured, from 1968-1969 to 2022-2023 — on average 53 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec11 cmInsufficient · 15 %
- 16-31 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 22 %
- 1-15 Jan26 cmInsufficient · 38 %
- 16-31 Jan34 cmVariable · 53 %
- 1-15 Feb39 cmVariable · 65 %
- 16-29 Feb41 cmVariable · 61 %
- 1-15 Mar34 cmVariable · 53 %
- 16-31 Mar19 cmInsufficient · 33 %
- 1-15 Apr8 cmInsufficient · 12 %
- Best winter of the series
- 1976-1977 — 114 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 1992-1993 — 0 day at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 186 cm a winter on average, spread over 21 days of snowfall. Measured over 53 complete winters, from 1969-1970 to 2022-2023.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 57 cm — 1981-1982
- Snowiest winter
- 2017-2018 — 335 cm
- Leanest winter
- 1992-1993 — 21 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →27 pistes, by level — 12 km
- Skiable vertical
- 563 m (1,552 m → 2,115 m)
- Lifts
- 2 chairlifts, 3 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 10 km of marked loops, 600 m from the resortOpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
See the trails(2)
Trail Level Length Les Mallets intermediate 9.2 km Pra Prunier easy 1.1 km - Snowpark
- 2 mapped zones, 1.7 km from the resort — Bordercross · Snowpark
OpenStreetMap, surveyed on 12 September 2026. OpenStreetMap does not map individual features (kickers, rails): what is counted here are the named zones. - Without skis
- 1 sledging run
- Piste aspect
- N 30% · E 53% · S 17% · W 0% (descent direction of 22 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Mountain restaurants
- Restaurant des 4 Saisons (1555 m) · Le Chamois (1555 m) · La Spatule en bois (1554 m)
- Season 2026-2027
- opens on 19 December 2026, closes on 21 March 2027 · lifts 9h à 16h30
Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.
Lift passes detail →
The price list for this resort is being collected: most resorts publish winter prices between September and November.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 2026Measured 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 Réallon only (“REALLON”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Réallon
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (1) →Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 18 September 2026.
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗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 Réallon
From Paris: 8 hr 14 (701 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 26 · 129 km
- From Marseille: 2 hr 39 · 209 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 04 · 187 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 22 · 217 km
- From Annecy: 3 hr 34 · 234 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon: 3 hr 37 · 231 km
- From Nice: 3 hr 58 · 317 km · avoids Col de Restefond, closed in winter
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 58 · 331 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 03 · 272 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 11 · 279 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 19 · 479 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 30 · 431 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 30 · 399 km
- From Besançon: 5 hr 49 · 461 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 15 · 565 km
- From Nancy: 7 hr 37 · 642 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 10 · 755 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 12 · 699 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 14 · 701 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 39 · 808 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Chorges station
halt · then 21 min drive (17 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 hr 25 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 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
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 52 by road · 170 km
- Cuneo (CUF): 3 hr 10 by road · 176 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Réallon 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.
Off-piste & ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Named itineraries: Ariès
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
Resorts for ski touring →12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Réallon — up to 1,550 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiguilles de Chabrières · Tour par le couloir E | n/a · AD- | 1,150 m | 1,560 → 2,403 m | n/a | 2.4 km |
| Aiguilles de Chabrières · Couloir E | 4.2 · E2 · AD- | 900 m | 1,530 → 2,403 m | E | 2.4 km |
| Revire Souleou · Combe de la Règue | n/a · PD+ | 1,250 m | 1,470 → 2,717 m | N | 2.6 km |
| Piarra · Couloir SW du col 2560 m | 4.2 · E2 · D | 1,250 m | 1,477 → 2,633 m | SW | 2.9 km |
| La Fourche · Versant N depuis les Gourniers | 2.3 · E1 · PD | 900 m | 1,420 → 2,303 m | n/a | 3.3 km |
| La Fourche · Versant NE | n/a · E1 · PD+ | 870 m | 1,432 → 2,303 m | n/a | 3.3 km |
| Cabane de Chargès · Depuis les Gourniers | 1.2 · E1 · F | 750 m | 1,477 → 2,206 m | W | 3.3 km |
| Mourre Froid · Versant SW | n/a · AD | 1,550 m | 1,470 → 2,993 m | SW | 3.5 km |
| Crête de la Gardette · Versant NE | 2.2 · E1 · F+ | 740 m | 1,420 → 2,160 m | NE | 3.5 km |
| Pointe de Serre · Face NE | 4.1 · E1 · D- | 1,470 m | 1,430 → 2,904 m | NE | 3.8 km |
| L'Esillon · Versant NE | 3.1 · E1 | 876 m | 1,432 → 2,308 m | NE | 3.9 km |
| La Gardette · Versant E | 1.3 · E1 · F | 830 m | 1,470 → 2,271 m | E · SE · S | 3.9 km |
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 ↗
Beyond skiing at Réallon
Spa and thermal baths
- Excellence Spa · Chorges · 9.6 km away
Paragliding
- Parapente - Site Mont Guillaume · Puy-Sanières · 6.2 km away
- Parapente - Site de Chorges · Chorges · 6.8 km away
- Jennif'Air Parapente et multi-activités aériennes · Puy-Sanières · 7.1 km away
- Parapente Serre-Ponçon · Savines-le-Lac · 8.3 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.
Practical information
Collective accommodation
94 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 94 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 50 pitches
Commune: Réallon · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Tourist office
Office de tourisme
Ski school
ESF Reallon
25 instructors
🇬🇧 16 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Days without skiing
- Cinema · Réallon - Cinéma de Pays
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.
What's on around Réallon
All events →-
19 September 2026 · 10:00
Sortie à la découverte des murets en pierres sèches
Iscle de Réallon · Réallon
Les murets en pierres sèches des terrasses de la vallée de Réallon : histoire, et biodiversité associée à ce patrimoine.
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Hautes-Alpes” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Serre-Eyraud (9.3 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.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Réallon?
Réallon sits at 1,000 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,115 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Réallon have?
Réallon has 12 km of pistes served by 6 lifts (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Réallon?
The longest piste is Saturne: 1 km (blue run), for 231 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 Réallon?
The highest lift, Chabrieres (chairlift), tops out at 2,117 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Réallon have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 7 installations at Réallon (2 chairlifts, 4 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 7,630 people per hour, of which 2,200 for Clos Des Aurans alone. The fleet spans 1985 to 2023, an average age of 23 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 Réallon?
By road, Réallon is 2 hr 26 from Grenoble (129 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Chorges, 21 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 Grenoble-Alpes-Isère, 2 hr 52 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Réallon?
8 hr 14 for 701 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
When does Réallon open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 19 December 2026 and closes on 21 March 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Réallon?
It varies from one winter to the next according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; in season the daily report prevails.
Is Réallon good for beginners and families?
67% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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