Getting to Saint-Jean-de-Sixt

Saint-Jean-de-Sixt is 39 min by road from Annecy (28 km), 6 h 15 from Paris, 22 min from Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny railway station. 2 coach lines run directly from the station to the resort.

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.

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Getting to Saint-Jean-de-Sixt

By road

From Annecy : 39 min · 28 km
From Genève : 48 min · 47 km
From Chambéry : 1 h 12 · 82 km
From Grenoble : 1 h 42 · 126 km
From Lyon : 2 h 11 · 169 km

From other major cities (15)

From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 44 · 218 km
From Valence : 2 h 45 · 219 km
From Besançon : 3 h 17 · 221 km
From Dijon : 3 h 23 · 302 km
From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 04 · 338 km
From Montpellier : 4 h 52 · 424 km
From Marseille : 4 h 57 · 433 km
From Strasbourg : 5 h 12 · 438 km
From Nancy : 5 h 26 · 506 km
From Perpignan : 6 h 14 · 572 km
From Paris : 6 h 15 · 581 km
From Nice : 6 h 18 · 511 km
From Toulouse : 7 h 10 · 658 km
From Bordeaux : 8 h 02 · 724 km
From Pau : 9 h 04 · 848 km

Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.

By train

Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny station

regional station · then 22 min by road (19 km)

Nearest main station: Annecy, 39 min by road.

From Annecy station (stop « Gare Routiere ») : 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 du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, Cars Région Haute-Savoie (Altibus) · official timetable ↗
From Annecy station (stop « Gare Routiere ») : 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 du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, Cars Région Haute-Savoie (Altibus) · official timetable ↗

Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.

By plane

Genève (GVA) : 1 h 13 by road · 55 km
Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 16 by road · 81 km

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By electric car

1 charging location within 2 km

2charging points · up to50 kW

SAINT JEAN DE SIXT - Route de la Clusaz · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 50 kW · 0.2 km

Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.

Road conditions

Inforoute 74 (Haute-Savoie) ↗ — 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 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.