Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
Not retained (conflicting sources): km of alpine pistes, ski lifts.
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern France. The village is best known for tourism and has been a popular holiday destination since the early 1900s. It has 445 km (277 mi) of pistes, the third largest domain exclusively in France, and is one of the least busy ski areas of its size. In 1892, two hundred people were killed when a water pocket in a glacier above the town suddenly burst open and caused flooding.

Live webcams
All webcams (8) →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. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →0 of 60 pistes open · 2 of 29 lifts · recorded on 15 October at 11:23, official source
Right now at the MONT ARBOIS station (1,833 m)
Source: Météo-France, MONT ARBOIS weather station, 5.4 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 292 cm of fresh snow, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “COMBLOUX” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 27 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 571 m · top 2,373 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: 2,373 m · Bottom of the pistes: 819 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 47 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4.5 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 445 km
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €65 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.15/km · Adult 6-day pass: €324.50 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 58% · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 24 · Nearest railway station: 8 min · Nearest airport: 1 hr 20
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 7 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 23 · Upcoming events: 7 · Collective tourist beds: 735 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?2.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 27% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 1 · Adult day pass: €65 — 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) →€324.50 6 days
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Evasion Mont-Blanc pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Combloux. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 1,554 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 11 named trails — 43 km of marked loops (32 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Megeve Mont Arbois area, 3 km from the resort
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone, 2.5 km from the resort — Snowpark
Ski-area figures — bottom, top: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct) . 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 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.
Staying and hiring gear in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
The partners covering this resort, shown side by side, and the shop to kit out before you leave. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.
Collective accommodation
735 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 19 hotels · 381 rooms (1 × 5★, 2 × 4★, 6 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 2 holiday villages and family centres · 402 bed spaces
- 3 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 234 bed spaces
- 2 youth hostels and sports centres · 99 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 151 pitches
Commune: Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 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
Gear & equipment
Beyond skiing at Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
Without skis on — 4 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs
Toboggan runs
- Piste sur neige "La Luge" · Demi-Quartier · 5.3 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire de Saint-Gervais · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.5 km away
- Patinoire des Houches · Les Houches · 6.7 km away
- Patinoire de plein air · Megève · 8.2 km away
- Patinoire olympique · Megève · 8.2 km away
- Patinoire municipale · OpenStreetMap
Swimming pool
- Piscine de Saint-Gervais · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.9 km away
- Piscine de Marlioz · Passy · 3 km away
- Centre aquatique Sallanches Mont Blanc · Sallanches · 6.8 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Les Thermes de Saint-Gervais - Les cures thermales · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.7 km away
- Saunas · Megève · 8.2 km away
- Ascenseur des Thermes · 0.7 km away · OpenStreetMap
Paragliding
- Itinér’Air Parapente · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.1 km away
- A2L-Parapente · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.1 km away
- 2D : Didier Daval Parapente · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.1 km away
- Elévation Parapente · Passy · 2.7 km away
Museum
- Fresque François Durafour · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.1 km away
- Archipel Art Contemporain · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.1 km away
- La Cure · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.2 km away
- Fresque 2KM3 : Mur de la Poste · Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · 0.2 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma La Caméra · Passy · 5.2 km away
- Espace Animation · Les Houches · 6.6 km away
- Théatre Montjoie · OpenStreetMap
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 Saint Gervais Mont Blanc
118 instructors
🇬🇧 98 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Maison de Saint-Gervais
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 →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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains — up to 1,500 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tête Noire · Depuis Vaudagne par le col de la Forclaz | 2.3 · E1 · PD- | 700 m | 1,100 → 1,746 m | n/a | 3 km |
| Le Prarion · Depuis le Châtelard | 2.1 · E1 · F | 1,320 m | 800 → 1,969 m | n/a | 3.1 km |
| Le Prarion · from Les Houches via Granges des Chavants | n/a · F+ | 838 m | 1,130 → 1,968 m | E | 4 km |
| Bionnassay - le Crozat · Bionnassay Crozat | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4.5 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
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, 2.7 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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
From Paris: 6 hr 22 (603 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 55 min · 68 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 08 · 92 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 26 · 97 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 43 · 126 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 30 · 212 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 46 · 219 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 08 · 270 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 24 · 242 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 31 · 324 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 13 · 379 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 53 · 423 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 58 · 432 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 15 · 433 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 33 · 528 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 40 · 477 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 15 · 571 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 22 · 603 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 11 · 657 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 11 · 769 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 05 · 847 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Le Fayet station
regional station · then 8 min drive (5 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 06 by road.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 20 by road · 77 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 38 by road · 104 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Saint-Gervais-les-Bains as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
4 charging points · up to 22 kW
- SAINT GERVAIS LES BAINS - Parking Patinoire · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.5 km
- PASSY - Parking Mattel · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.9 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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains sits at 571 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,373 m.
What is the longest piste in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
The longest piste is Mandarines: 3 km (green run), for 530 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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
The highest lift, Véleray, tops out at 2,444 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 79 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 74 km.
How much is a lift pass in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
The adult day pass for the Evasion Mont-Blanc linked area costs €65 and the 6-day pass €324.50 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Combloux).
How do I get to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
By road, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is 55 min from Genève (68 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Le Fayet, 8 min by road from the resort. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 20 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
6 hr 22 for 603 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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 292 cm of fresh snow, measured over 27 winters at the Météo-France “COMBLOUX” station. This verdict rests on 27 winters of Météo-France measurements (1993-2023); in season the daily report prevails.
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