Getting to Semnoz
Semnoz is 22 min by road from Annecy (16 km), 6 h 17 from Paris, 24 min from Annecy railway station.
Semnoz is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Viuz-la-Chiésaz. The village sits at 1,475 m and the ski area rises to 1,666 m, a skiable vertical of 256 m.
Getting to Semnoz
By road
- From Annecy : 22 min · 16 km
- From Chambéry : 55 min · 55 km
- From Genève : 1 h 03 · 62 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 29 · 110 km
- From Lyon : 1 h 54 · 142 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 27 · 191 km
- From Valence : 2 h 27 · 212 km
- From Besançon : 3 h 23 · 234 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 25 · 281 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 46 · 311 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 34 · 417 km
- From Marseille : 4 h 39 · 426 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 18 · 452 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 28 · 484 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 56 · 565 km
- From Paris : 6 h 17 · 559 km
- From Nice : 6 h 17 · 584 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 52 · 651 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 45 · 697 km
- From Pau : 8 h 46 · 841 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Annecy station
main station, high-speed rail · then 24 min by road (18 km)
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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 58 min by road · 54 km
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 17 by road · 67 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
- 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.