Getting to Samoëns 1600

Samoëns 1600 is 1 h 07 by road from Genève (64 km), 6 h 33 from Paris, 35 min from Marignier railway station.

Samoëns 1600 is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Samoëns. The village sits at 1,600 m and the ski area rises to 1,708 m, a skiable vertical of 258 m.

Getting to Samoëns 1600

By road

  • From Genève : 1 h 07 · 64 km
  • From Annecy : 1 h 19 · 88 km
  • From Chambéry : 1 h 47 · 130 km
  • From Grenoble : 2 h 21 · 185 km
  • From Lyon : 2 h 41 · 207 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 19 · 266 km
  • From Valence : 3 h 19 · 287 km
  • From Besançon : 3 h 35 · 238 km
  • From Dijon : 3 h 42 · 320 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 24 · 378 km
  • From Montpellier : 5 h 26 · 492 km
  • From Strasbourg : 5 h 30 · 456 km
  • From Marseille : 5 h 31 · 501 km
  • From Nancy : 5 h 45 · 523 km
  • From Nice : 6 h 24 · 519 km
  • From Paris : 6 h 33 · 599 km
  • From Perpignan : 6 h 48 · 640 km
  • From Toulouse : 7 h 44 · 726 km
  • From Bordeaux : 8 h 22 · 764 km
  • From Pau : 9 h 38 · 916 km

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

By train

Marignier station

regional station · then 35 min by road (26 km)

Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 h 17 by road.

No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 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

  • Genève (GVA) : 1 h 32 by road · 72 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 50 by road · 129 km

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By electric car

No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 September 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.

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

Road conditions

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.