Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval
728 mVillage altitude
948 mTop of the ski area
265 kmLinked pistes · Grand Massif
5Ski lifts
€63Adult day pass · Grand Massif · 2026-2027
Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval is a French commune located in the département of Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The commune was a member of the association Les Plus Beaux Villages de France until 2018, the year of its withdrawal. The commune took advantage of this to relaunch in a concrete way the Opération Grand Site de France, launched at the beginning of the 2000s.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →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.
Avalanche danger
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 12 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 223 cm of fresh snow, measured over 33 winters at the Météo-France “ST SIGISMOND” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 33 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 728 m · top 948 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.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 315 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?1.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 948 m · Bottom of the pistes: 775 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 12 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 265 km · Lifts: 5
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €63 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.24/km · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 57% · Magic carpets: 0 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 41 · Nearest railway station: 31 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 8 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 27
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 6 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 83 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €63 — 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 declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), STRMTG register, OpenStreetMap; snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (figures declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), national lift register (STRMTG), OpenStreetMap) ; 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).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€1,316 Season€50.40 Child, 1 day€30.50 Beginner, 1 day€23 Pedestrian, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Grand Massif pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Flaine. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 173 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 22 km of marked loops (15 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Domaine Nordique d'Agy - Saint-Sigismond area, 9.3 km from the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan); km of the linked area: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept) . In a linked ski area the map cannot tell where the resort ends: its own km stay “n/a” until the resort declares them.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 202611 kmLongest piste — Cascades (red), 1,594 m of vertical
1,594 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,376 → 781 m, 11 km
948 mHighest lift top — TK de la Fontaine (ou Feulatière) (platter lift), national lift register
3,445Total lift capacity, people per hour — 5 installations: 5 drag lifts
43 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1969, newest 2001
900Biggest lift, people per hour — TK Cascades (platter lift, 2001)
59 kmTotal length of lifts — 55 lifts mapped
5,962 haSki area boundary (OSM)
736Inhabitants — Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval (INSEE 74273)
Measured 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.
Source: national register of mechanical lifts (STRMTG, CAIRN), fleet as of 1 January 2025 — lifts attributed to Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval only (“SIXT”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval
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Collective accommodation
83 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 hotel · 26 rooms (1 × 2★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 83 bed spaces
- 2 campsites · 129 pitches
Commune: Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Stay & accommodation
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Ski hire
Skiset UK
Skiset’s UK site: ski hire in the resort shops, booked in English, paid in pounds.
Gear & equipment
Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
Beyond skiing at Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval
Ice rink
- Jardin de glace à la Patinoire de Samoëns · Samoëns · 5.1 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine de Samoëns · Samoëns · 5.5 km away
Paragliding
- ABC Spirale Parapente · Samoëns · 4.9 km away
- Ecole de parapente - Les Hirondailes · Samoëns · 4.9 km away
- Aire d'atterrissage de parapente · Samoëns · 5.6 km away
- Profeel parapente · Morillon · 8.3 km away
Museum
- Ferme Ecomusée du Clos Parchet · Samoëns · 7.7 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.
Ski schools and practical information
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.
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 1 Marked off-piste itineraries · 1 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Acces Vagnys
Itineraries surveyed on OpenStreetMap within a 4 km radius (7 September 2026): “marked” means an itinerary exists on the map, not that it is open or safe on the day.
Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval — up to 1,800 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe de Sans Bet · Versant W | 2.3 · E1 · PD+ | 1,420 m | 830 → 2,243 m | W | 1 km |
| Dent de Verreu · Versant SSW - depuis le Mont | 2.2 · PD- | 930 m | 971 → 1,901 m | SW | 1.4 km |
| Frêtes de Villy · De Sixt par les Fonts et le Bas du Col d'Anterne | n/a · PD | 1,569 m | 834 → 2,495 m | NW | 1.6 km |
| Pralet ou Triangle de Sixt · Par la combe de l'Essert et les Vagnys | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 785 m | 805 → 1,590 m | W | 1.6 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
Not a piste. Neither marked, nor patrolled, nor secured: transceiver, shovel, probe, the day’s avalanche bulletin and, better still, a guide. Ski grade (1.1–5.6) = steepness and commitment; exposure (E1–E4) = consequence of a fall.
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 October 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Official piste map
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 Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval
From Paris: 6 hr 28 (598 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 1 hr 02 · 63 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 14 · 87 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 42 · 129 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 16 · 185 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 36 · 206 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 14 · 265 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 14 · 287 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 30 · 237 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 37 · 319 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 19 · 374 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 21 · 491 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 25 · 455 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 26 · 501 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 40 · 523 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 18 · 519 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 28 · 598 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 43 · 639 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 39 · 725 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 17 · 764 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 33 · 915 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Cluses station
regional station · then 31 min drive (25 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 12 by road.
- From Cluses station (stop “Gare Routiere”): line Y94 — CLUSES → SIXT-FER-A-CHEVAL (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 50 min to the “Gare Routiere” stop — 8 departures a day on weekdays, 5 a day at weekends · first 05:55, last 18:20 · 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 27 by road · 72 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 45 by road · 128 km
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
3 charging points · up to 24 kW
- SIXT FER À CHEVAL - Place de la Gare · EASYCHARGE · 3 points · 24 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 October 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval?
Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval sits at 728 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 948 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval have?
From Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval you can ski 265 km of slopes across Grand Massif, 5 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval?
The longest piste is Cascades: 11 km (red run), for 1,594 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 Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval?
The highest lift, TK de la Fontaine (ou Feulatière) (platter lift), tops out at 948 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 5 installations at Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval (5 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 3,445 people per hour, of which 900 for TK Cascades alone. The fleet spans 1969 to 2001, an average age of 43 years. This count covers the resort itself, magic carpets included, not the whole linked ski area — a resort brochure often announces a different number. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How much is a lift pass in Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval?
The adult day pass for the Grand Massif linked area costs €63 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Flaine).
How do I get to Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval?
By road, Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval is 1 hr 02 from Genève (63 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Cluses, 31 min by road from the resort. From Cluses station, line Y94 — CLUSES → SIXT-FER-A-CHEVAL (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie) reaches the “Gare Routiere” stop in 50 min, 8 departures a day on weekdays, 5 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 27 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval?
6 hr 28 for 598 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 Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval?
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 12 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 223 cm of fresh snow, measured over 33 winters at the Météo-France “ST SIGISMOND” station. This verdict rests on 33 winters of Météo-France measurements (1993-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
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