Getting to Saint-Jean-d’Arves
Saint-Jean-d’Arves is 1 h 18 by road from Chambéry (94 km), 7 h 05 from Paris, 26 min from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Arvan railway station.
Saint-Jean-d’Arves is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Saint-Jean-d'Arves. The village sits at 1,555 m and the ski area rises to 2,587 m, a skiable vertical of 1,504 m.
Getting to Saint-Jean-d’Arves
By road
- From Chambéry : 1 h 18 · 94 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 34 · 123 km · avoids Col de la Croix-de-Fer, closed in winter
- From Annecy : 1 h 47 · 141 km
- From Genève : 2 h 17 · 179 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 28 · 192 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 2 h 39 · 217 km · via Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Arvan station
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 02 · 241 km
- From Dijon : 4 h 20 · 393 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 21 · 358 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 36 · 379 km
- From Besançon : 4 h 36 · 351 km
- From Marseille : 4 h 42 · 388 km
- From Nice : 5 h 24 · 426 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 58 · 527 km
- From Nancy : 6 h 27 · 604 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 32 · 568 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 54 · 613 km
- From Paris : 7 h 05 · 663 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 19 · 748 km
- From Pau : 8 h 49 · 803 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Arvan station
regional station · then 26 min by road (20 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 16 by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 29 by road · 101 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 2 h 12 by road · 183 km
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By electric car
No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 October 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 October 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Savoie Route ↗ — 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 2 October 2026. Allow more in the snow.
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