Saint-Jean-de-Sixt
Saint-Jean-de-Sixt is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 828 m and the ski area rises to 2,255 m, a skiable vertical of 1,225 m.
The area offers 25 km of alpine pistes, 40 marked pistes (17 green, 17 blue, 4 red, 2 black), 15 ski lifts. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Saint-Jean-de-Sixt belongs to the linked Aravis area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 4 km (Les Prises) and the highest lift tops out at 2,255 m.
The resort holds the Famille Plus label.
Access: 39 min by road from Annecy and 22 min from Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny 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: 2,255 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,030 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 86 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 82%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 25 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 69 km · Lifts: 15 · Balance between piste levels: 80%
- 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?4.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 85% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 6 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 19 · Nearest railway station: 22 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 13 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 13
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 6 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 30 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 300 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?3.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 1 · 4-star hotels: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 1 — 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).
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.
Right now at the LE GRAND-BORNAND station (1,430 m)
Avalanche danger
7-day forecast
Village 828 m · top 2,255 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
Good snow from January to March.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.1 h · Dec 5.5 h · Jan 5.7 h · Feb 7 h · Mar 8.4 h · Apr 10 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November8 cmInsufficient · 6%
- December42 cmVariable · 58%
- January74 cmGood skiing · 90%
- February89 cmGood skiing · 96%
- March87 cmGood skiing · 85%
- April48 cmVariable · 57%
- May7 cmInsufficient · 10%
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
34 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2025-2026 — on average 86 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec27 cmInsufficient · 31 %
- 16-31 Dec36 cmVariable · 50 %
- 1-15 Jan48 cmVariable · 72 %
- 16-31 Jan65 cmGood skiing · 85 %
- 1-15 Feb75 cmGood skiing · 84 %
- 16-29 Feb78 cmGood skiing · 86 %
- 1-15 Mar73 cmGood skiing · 81 %
- 16-31 Mar48 cmVariable · 56 %
- 1-15 Apr24 cmInsufficient · 26 %
- Best winter of the series
- 2005-2006 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 1992-1993 — 6 days at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 472 cm a winter on average, spread over 41 days of snowfall. Measured over 34 complete winters.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 65 cm — 2014-2015
- Snowiest winter
- 1998-1999 — 867 cm
- Leanest winter
- 1996-1997 — 159 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →40 pistes, by level — 25 km
- Skiable vertical
- 1,225 m (1,030 m → 2,255 m)
- Lifts
- 4 gondolas, 2 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
- Cross-country skiing
- 10 named trails — 76 km of marked loops (35 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 1.5 km 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(10)
Trail Level Length La Bornandine difficult 31 km Les Poches intermediate 13 km Le Bouchet easy 8 km Bellavarde difficult 6.3 km Le Collet d'en Bas red 5.1 km Les Ascets easy 4.6 km Le Lac easy 3.7 km Les F'nires very easy 2.4 km La Cluseraz intermediate 1.1 km Route des Frasses Jacquiers n/a 0.7 km - Without skis
- 2 sledging runs
- Piste aspect
- N 20% · E 40% · S 7% · W 34% (descent direction of 32 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Mountain restaurants
- 1647 (1643 m) · Le Grizzly (1617 m) · La Ferme (1098 m) · Titina (1060 m) · pizz'Avalanche (1041 m) · Le Bistro (1039 m) · L'Ourson (1037 m) · Hôtel Restaurant Les Airelles (1029 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 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.
Staying and hiring gear in Saint-Jean-de-Sixt
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 18 September 2026.
Webcams provided by windy.com — add a webcam.
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-Jean-de-Sixt
From Paris: 6 hr 15 (581 km) by road.
By road
- From Annecy: 39 min · 28 km
- From Genève: 48 min · 47 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 12 · 82 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 42 · 126 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 11 · 169 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 44 · 218 km
- From Valence: 2 hr 45 · 219 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 17 · 221 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 23 · 302 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 04 · 338 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 52 · 424 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 57 · 433 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 12 · 438 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 26 · 506 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 14 · 572 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 15 · 581 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 18 · 511 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 10 · 658 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 02 · 724 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 04 · 848 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny station
regional station · then 22 min drive (19 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 39 min by road.
- From Annecy station (stop “Gare Routiere”): line Y62 — ANNECY → LA CLUSAZ → LE GRAND-BORNAND (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 48 min to the “Forgeassoud” stop — 12 departures a day on weekdays, 9 a day at weekends · first 07:05, last 19:25 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗
- From Annecy station (stop “Gare Routiere”): line Y63 — ANNECY → DINGY-SAINT-CLAIR → THONES (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 48 min to the “Forgeassoud” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays, 2 a day at weekends · first 07:30, last 16:55 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.
By plane
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 13 by road · 55 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 16 by road · 81 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
2 charging points · up to 50 kW
- SAINT JEAN DE SIXT - Route de la Clusaz · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 50 kW · 0.2 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.
Ski touring routes described
Resorts for ski touring →12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Saint-Jean-de-Sixt — up to 1,220 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe de Beauregard · depuis La Clusaz par le chalet de Corbassière | 1.3 · E1 · F+ | 620 m | 1,030 → 1,650 m | N · NE · E | 2.6 km |
| Mont Lachat (Thônes) · Couloir E - Voie Normale | 3.2 · AD | 1,020 m | 1,000 → 2,023 m | E | 3.2 km |
| Pointe de Beauregard · depuis La Clusaz, par le Bachal | n/a · F | 558 m | 1,086 → 1,644 m | E | 3.3 km |
| Aiguille des Calvaires · Par la Combe des Juments | 1.3 · E1 · PD- | 1,100 m | 1,220 → 2,322 m | SW | 4.1 km |
| Aiguille de Borderan · Versant W par le Crêt du Loup | 2.3 · E1 · PD+ | 1,050 m | 1,490 → 2,492 m | W | 4.4 km |
| Mont Lachat (Thônes) · Couloir du Viking | 3.1 · E2 · AD- | 350 m | 950 → 1,300 m | S | 4.6 km |
| Mont Lachat (Thônes) · Face NW (hiver) | 4.3 · E3 · D+ | 1,100 m | 980 → 2,023 m | N · NW | 4.7 km |
| Aiguille des Calvaires · Par la Combe du Fernuy | 1.3 · E1 · PD | 1,052 m | 1,270 → 2,322 m | N | 5 km |
| Aiguille des Calvaires · Couloir N par la Combe du Fernuy | 4.1 · E1 · D | 1,036 m | 1,286 → 2,322 m | N | 5 km |
| Porte des Aravis · Par la combe de la Creuse | 2.3 · E1 · PD | 1,200 m | 1,200 → 2,400 m | NW | 5.2 km |
| Aiguille de Borderan · Couloir NW par la combe de Fernuy | 3.2 · E2 · AD | 1,220 m | 1,286 → 2,492 m | N | 5.3 km |
| Mont Lachat (Châtillon) · Circuit des chalets | n/a · AD | 1,020 m | 1,030 → 2,050 m | S | 5.3 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 Saint-Jean-de-Sixt
Toboggan runs
- Luge des Prés · La Clusaz · 2.4 km away
Swimming pool
- Espace Aquatique La Clusaz · La Clusaz · 2.3 km away
- Piscine municipale · Thônes · 8.2 km away
Paragliding
- AirLinks : école de parapente · Le Grand-Bornand · 3.1 km away
- Parapente : terrain d'atterrissage "Les Potais" · Le Grand-Bornand · 4.3 km away
- Parapente : décollage du Lachat · Le Grand-Bornand · 6.5 km away
- Aravis Parapente · La Clusaz · 9 km away
Museum
- La Maison du patrimoine · Le Grand-Bornand · 2.6 km away
- Le Hameau des Alpes · La Clusaz · 3.1 km away
- Musée Patrimonial du Pays de Thônes - Fondateurs : François et Lucien Cochat · Thônes · 8.1 km away
- Salle des maquettes des Amis du Val de Thônes · Thônes · 8.1 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Les Rhodos · Le Grand-Bornand · 2.6 km away
- Cinéma Edelweiss · Thônes · 8 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
300 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 2 hotels · 34 rooms (1 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 300 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 54 pitches
Commune: Saint-Jean-de-Sixt · 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
📍 54 Place de l'Ancienne École, 74450 Saint-Jean-de-Sixt
Ski school
ESF La Clusaz
276 instructors
🇬🇧 196 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Days without skiing
- Swimming pool · Bassin 25m
- Bowling · Le Bowling
- Cinema · Le Danay
- Alpine coaster · Luges d'été
- Ice rink · Patinoire
- Cinema · Les Rhodos
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.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Saint-Jean-de-Sixt?
Saint-Jean-de-Sixt sits at 828 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,255 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Saint-Jean-de-Sixt have?
Saint-Jean-de-Sixt has 25 km of pistes served by 15 lifts, within the linked Aravis area (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Saint-Jean-de-Sixt?
The longest piste is Les Prises: 4 km (blue run), for 395 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-Jean-de-Sixt?
The highest lift, Aiguille, tops out at 2,255 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 47 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 35 km.
How do I get to Saint-Jean-de-Sixt?
By road, Saint-Jean-de-Sixt is 39 min from Annecy (28 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, 22 min by road from the resort. From Annecy station, line Y62 — ANNECY → LA CLUSAZ → LE GRAND-BORNAND (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie) reaches the “Forgeassoud” stop in 48 min, 12 departures a day on weekdays, 9 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 13 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Saint-Jean-de-Sixt?
6 hr 15 for 581 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-Jean-de-Sixt?
Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to ten winters of reanalysis (estimate); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Saint-Jean-de-Sixt good for beginners and families?
85% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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