Getting to Argentière

Argentière is 1 h 15 by road from Genève (91 km), 6 h 42 from Paris, 2 min from Argentière railway station.

Argentière is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. The village sits at 1,261 m and the ski area rises to 2,134 m.

Getting to Argentière

By road

  • From Genève : 1 h 15 · 91 km
  • From Annecy : 1 h 28 · 114 km
  • From Chambéry : 1 h 55 · 156 km
  • From Grenoble : 2 h 17 · 157 km
  • From Lyon : 2 h 50 · 234 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Besançon : 3 h 13 · 226 km
  • From Valence : 3 h 21 · 250 km
  • From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 28 · 292 km
  • From Dijon : 3 h 50 · 346 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 33 · 404 km
  • From Strasbourg : 4 h 39 · 400 km
  • From Montpellier : 5 h 28 · 455 km
  • From Marseille : 5 h 33 · 464 km
  • From Nice : 5 h 35 · 467 km
  • From Nancy : 5 h 48 · 474 km
  • From Paris : 6 h 42 · 625 km
  • From Perpignan : 6 h 49 · 602 km
  • From Toulouse : 7 h 45 · 689 km
  • From Bordeaux : 8 h 31 · 791 km
  • From Pau : 9 h 40 · 879 km

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

By train

Argentière station

halt · then 2 min by road (1 km)

Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 h 26 by road.

Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.

By plane

  • Genève (GVA) : 1 h 40 by road · 99 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 59 by road · 155 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.