Getting to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is 1 h 02 by road from Genève (81 km), 6 h 29 from Paris, 2 min from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc railway station.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 1,048 m and the ski area rises to 2,317 m, a skiable vertical of 1,282 m.
Getting to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
By road
- From Genève : 1 h 02 · 81 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 15 · 105 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 43 · 147 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 05 · 148 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 37 · 224 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 3 h 08 · 241 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 15 · 283 km
- From Besançon : 3 h 26 · 235 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 38 · 337 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 20 · 395 km
- From Strasbourg : 4 h 51 · 409 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 15 · 446 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 20 · 455 km
- From Nice : 5 h 22 · 458 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 40 · 541 km
- From Paris : 6 h 29 · 616 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 36 · 593 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 32 · 680 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 18 · 782 km
- From Pau : 9 h 27 · 870 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc station
regional station · then 2 min by road (1 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 h 13 by road.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 27 by road · 90 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 46 by road · 146 km
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By electric car
11 charging locations within 2 km
62charging points · up to50 kW
- CHAMONIX MONT BLANC - Parking Mairie · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- CHAMONIX MONT BLANC - Parking Saint Michel · EASYCHARGE · 9points · 7 kW · 0.1 km
- CHAMONIX MONT BLANC - Parking Allobroges · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.4 km
- CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC - Parking Mont Blanc · EASYCHARGE · 9points · 22 kW · 0.4 km
- CHAMONIX MONT BLANC - Parking du Corzolet · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.6 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.
Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme de Chamonix and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September