Getting to Barèges
Barèges is 1 h 31 by road from Pau (82 km), 9 h 25 from Paris, 44 min from Lourdes railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Barèges is a ski resort in the Pyrenees (Hautes-Pyrénées). The village sits at 1,472 m and the ski area rises to 1,950 m, a skiable vertical of 612 m.
Getting to Barèges
By road
- From Pau : 1 h 31 · 82 km
- From Toulouse : 2 h 48 · 219 km · via Lourdes station
- From Bordeaux : 3 h 32 · 292 km
- From Perpignan : 4 h 38 · 415 km · via Lourdes station
- From Montpellier : 5 h 06 · 449 km · via Lourdes station
From other major cities (15)
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 6 h 41 · 588 km · via Lourdes station
- From Marseille : 6 h 46 · 612 km · via Lourdes station
- From Valence : 6 h 56 · 647 km · via Lourdes station
- From Grenoble : 7 h 38 · 707 km
- From Lyon : 7 h 48 · 715 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 8 h 06 · 626 km · via Lourdes station
- From Nice : 8 h 09 · 739 km
- From Chambéry : 8 h 23 · 766 km
- From Annecy : 8 h 48 · 825 km
- From Genève : 9 h 18 · 862 km
- From Dijon : 9 h 21 · 852 km
- From Paris : 9 h 25 · 869 km
- From Besançon : 9 h 57 · 910 km
- From Nancy : 11 h 28 · 1063 km
- From Strasbourg : 12 h 20 · 1148 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Lourdes station
main station, high-speed rail · then 44 min by road (42 km)
- From Lourdes station (stop « LOURDES - Gare SNCF ») : 968 — LOURDES - LUZ (.liO 65), 1 h 03 to the “BARÈGES - Place du Dr. Fourment” stop — 3 departures a day on weekdays, 3 a day at weekends · first 08:00, last 15:45 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, liO (Occitanie) · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées (LDE) : 59 min by road · 54 km
- Pau-Pyrénées (PUF) : 1 h 37 by road · 91 km
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By electric car
3 charging locations within 2 km
4charging points · up to44 kW
- FR-S65-E65481-001-1 · Load Stations · 1point · 22 kW · 1.4 km
- FR-S65-E65481-001-2 · Load Stations · 1point · 22 kW · 1.4 km
- CU-SDE65-BAR1-65120-1 · Load Stations · 2points · 44 kW · 1.9 km
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.
Resort data: declared by OFFICE DE TOURISME TOURMALET PIC DU MIDI and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September