SkiRadar FR

Saint-Gervais-les-Bains

Northern Alps Altitude 571 – 2,373 m Linked area Évasion Mont-Blanc Checked on 18 September 2026
571 mVillage altitude
2,373 mTop of the ski area
32 kmAlpine pistes
17Ski lifts
€30Adult day pass · 2026-2027

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.

Flocon VertOfficially classified tourist resort (France) Full page in French →
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

SkiRadar ratings

How ratings are computed →Computed on 18 September 2026

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.

  1. 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%

  2. Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?
    3.5 / 5

    Km of pistes at the resort: 32 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 123 km · Lifts: 17 · Balance between piste levels: 87%

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    4 / 5

    Adult day pass: €30 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.24/km · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area

  4. Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?
    2.5 / 5

    Share of green and blue pistes: 54% · Magic carpets: 3 · Sledging runs: 2 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2

  5. AccessIs it easy to get to?
    4.5 / 5

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 24 · Nearest railway station: 8 min · Nearest airport: 1 hr 20

  6. 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: 6 · Collective tourist beds: 735 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. 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: €30 — 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).

Snow and opening

7-day forecast → Snow report →
Status unknown

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.

7-day forecast

Village 571 m · top 2,373 m

Loading the forecast…

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

Good snow from December to May: a long, reliable season.

Estimate · 10-winter average (2015-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.2 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 5.9 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.5 h · Apr 10.2 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November27 cmInsufficient · 40%
  2. December96 cmGood skiing · 96%
  3. January151 cmGood skiing · 100%
  4. February181 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March197 cmGood skiing · 100%
  6. April169 cmGood skiing · 100%
  7. May102 cmGood skiing · 83%

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
Estimate from the ERA5-Land reanalysis (Open-Meteo), about 9 km grid at 834 m. Not a resort measurement: during the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of time with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

27 complete winters measured, from 1993-1994 to 2022-2023 — on average 47 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “COMBLOUX” station (1183 m, 6.7 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 18 %
  2. 16-31 Dec19 cmInsufficient · 32 %
  3. 1-15 Jan23 cmInsufficient · 31 %
  4. 16-31 Jan35 cmVariable · 53 %
  5. 1-15 Feb39 cmVariable · 59 %
  6. 16-29 Feb38 cmVariable · 53 %
  7. 1-15 Mar30 cmInsufficient · 43 %
  8. 16-31 Mar14 cmInsufficient · 24 %
  9. 1-15 Apr4 cmInsufficient · 3 %
Best winter of the series
2012-2013 — 119 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2000-2001 — 1 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 292 cm a winter on average, spread over 29 days of snowfall. Measured over 27 complete winters.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
62 cm — 1995-1996
Snowiest winter
1998-1999 — 585 cm
Leanest winter
2010-2011 — 96 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “COMBLOUX” station (1183 m, 6.7 km away), from the open “Daily climatological data” dataset (Open Licence 2.0). The season is counted from 1 December to 15 April; only winters with at least 95 % of those 136 days measured are kept, so no figure here rests on a handful of readings. The reading is taken at 1183 m, well below the top of the ski area (2373 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails. Snowfall figures are the fresh snow depth over 24 hours recorded at the same station (the HNEIGEF column): a day of snowfall is a day with 1 cm or more, and only winters measured 95 % of the time on that column are counted — which is why the record can be longer or shorter than the one for snow on the ground. More snow always falls than remains: some melts, settles or blows away.

The ski area

Compare with another resort →

39 pistes, by level — 32 km

8 green13 blue16 red2 black
Skiable vertical
1,554 m (819 m → 2,373 m)
Lifts
1 funicular, 3 gondolas, 8 chairlifts, 3 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets
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
See the trails(11)
TrailLevelLength
Megeve-Bettex-St.Nicolasintermediate20 km
Livraz - Cote2000black4.5 km
Planelletred3.6 km
Javenblack2.5 km
Livrazgreen2.5 km
Planayblack2 km
La Croixblue1.8 km
Le Laitblue1.7 km
Odiern/a1.6 km
Le Mazred1.5 km
Petit Vorasset · Megeve Mont Arboiseasy1.3 km
OpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
Snowpark
1 mapped zone, 2.5 km from the resort — 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
4 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs
Piste aspect
N 27% · E 48% · S 1% · W 24% (descent direction of 47 OSM pistes, terrain model)
Mountain restaurants
La Cha (1715 m) · L'Alpage (1415 m) · Spot Mont Blanc (1398 m) · La Tanière (1398 m) · Le Presteau (1396 m) · Du côté de chez Xuan (817 m) · Lupa (814 m)

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 (2026-2027) detail →

Adult passPrice
1 day€30
Child, 1 day€25

Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Price list of the linked area, read on Portes du Mont-Blanc. Official price list ↗

Official piste map

Open the piste map (PDF, 2.7 MB) ↗

Published by Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc · file dated 11 August 2023 · link checked on 12 September 2026 · official page

Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.

The ski area in figures

Measured on 9 September 2026
3 kmLongest piste — Mandarines (green), 530 m of vertical
548 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,755 → 1,207 m, 2 km
2,444 mHighest lift top — Véleray (platter lift)
73 kmTotal length of lifts — 79 lifts mapped
9,335 haSki area boundary (OSM)
5,755Inhabitants — Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (INSEE 74236)

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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains

We compare the partners that cover this resort. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.

Stay & accommodation

Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
See offers
Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
See offers
VVF
Family holiday villages, kids’ clubs included.
See offers

Ski hire

Sport 2000 Location
Skis, boots and helmets booked online, collected in a resort shop.
Book
Skiset
Network of ski-hire shops in the resorts.
Book

Live webcams

All webcams (8) →
Espace Mont Blanc Open at the operator ↗
▶ Watch live
Mont JouxSkaping
▶ Watch live
La LivrazMegève
▶ Watch live
RochebruneMegève
▶ Watch live
AlpetteMegève
▶ Watch live
Lac D ArboisMegève
▶ Watch live
Cote 2000Megève
▶ Watch live
Rochebrune · PanoramiqueMegève

Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 12 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 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 · 382 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 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 →
0 Marked off-piste itineraries
6 km Ski touring routes
1,554 m Skiable vertical · top 2,373 m
Safety. Off-piste terrain is neither marked nor made safe by the resort: a transceiver, a shovel, a probe and reading the avalanche bulletin are the minimum — and going with a mountain guide is better still. Today's avalanche risk (Météo-France scale of 1 to 5) will appear here during the season.

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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains — up to 1,500 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
Tête Noire · Depuis Vaudagne par le col de la Forclaz2.3 · E1 · PD-700 m1,100 → 1,746 mn/a3 km
Le Prarion · Depuis le Châtelard2.1 · E1 · F1,320 m800 → 1,969 mn/a3.1 km
Le Prarion · from Les Houches via Granges des Chavantsn/a · F+838 m1,130 → 1,968 mE4 km
Bionnassay - le Crozat · Bionnassay Crozatn/an/an/an/a4.5 km
Mont Joux · Depuis Les Communailles1.2 · E1 · PD-541 m1,417 → 1,958 mNE4.8 km
Mont Joly · Arête NE depuis Plan de la Croix2.3 · E2 · PD+1,085 m1,440 → 2,525 mNE5.4 km
Mont Joly · Depuis Les Communailles2.1 · E1 · PD+1,155 m1,405 → 2,525 mNE5.6 km
Mont Vorassay · Face S par Sous le Truc3.1 · E1 · AD-1,500 m1,263 → 2,299 mS6.1 km
Mont Vorassay · Face N en boucle5.1 · E3 · D+900 m1,400 → 2,299 mN6.1 km
Refuge de Varan · Depuis le Coudray2.1 · E1 · F+520 m1,110 → 1,620 mn/a6.2 km
Col de Tricot · Traversée S > N par le TMBn/a · PD1,150 m1,050 → 2,120 mn/a6.3 km
Mont Vorassay · Versant NE du col de Tricot2.1 · E1 · PD720 m1,400 → 2,120 mNE6.3 km
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 ↗

Beyond skiing at Saint-Gervais-les-Bains

Toboggan runs

Ice rink

Swimming pool

Spa and thermal baths

Paragliding

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

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

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 ↗

Tourist office

Maison de Saint-Gervais

Ski school

ESF Saint Gervais Mont Blanc

📞 04 50 47 76 21

🌐 esf-saintgervais.com

118 instructors

🇬🇧 98 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available

🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains →

Days without skiing

  • Cinema · Théatre Montjoie
  • Ice rink · Patinoire municipale
  • Spa / wellness · Ascenseur des Thermes

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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains

All 6 upcoming events →

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

Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce 4 kmCombloux 6 kmServoz 6 kmLes Houches 7 kmPlaine Joux 7 kmMegève 8 km

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.

How many kilometres of pistes does Saint-Gervais-les-Bains have?

Saint-Gervais-les-Bains has 32 km of pistes served by 17 lifts, within the linked Évasion Mont-Blanc area (OpenStreetMap survey).

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 73 km.

How much is a lift pass in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?

The adult day pass costs €30 (2026-2027, read on the official price list, shared with Portes du Mont-Blanc).

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?

Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to ten winters of reanalysis (estimate); in season the daily report prevails.

Is Saint-Gervais-les-Bains good for beginners and families?

54% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.

Full page in French. The French page carries the editorial guides and a few extra readings; every figure, webcam and price on this page is the same one. Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in French →

Every figure carries its source and date; a missing figure shows as “—”, never estimated. Embed this widget on your site