Getting to Bessans
Bessans is 1 h 50 by road from Chambéry (138 km), 7 h 38 from Paris, 40 min from Modane railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Bessans is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 1,707 m and the ski area rises to 1,859 m, a skiable vertical of 149 m.
Getting to Bessans
By road
- From Chambéry : 1 h 50 · 138 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 07 · 167 km
- From Annecy : 2 h 20 · 185 km
- From Genève : 2 h 49 · 223 km
- From Lyon : 3 h 01 · 237 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 3 h 10 · 260 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 34 · 285 km
- From Dijon : 4 h 53 · 437 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 54 · 405 km
- From Besançon : 5 h 09 · 395 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 14 · 361 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 17 · 465 km
- From Nice : 5 h 20 · 418 km · via Modane station
- From Perpignan : 6 h 39 · 612 km
- From Nancy : 7 h 00 · 648 km
- From Strasbourg : 7 h 04 · 613 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 35 · 699 km
- From Paris : 7 h 38 · 707 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 52 · 792 km
- From Pau : 9 h 29 · 889 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Modane station
regional station · then 40 min by road (36 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 49 by road.
- From Modane station (stop « Gare Routiere ») : S53 — MODANE ↔ BONNEVAL SUR ARC (REGION - cars Région Savoie), 1 h 04 to the “La Placette” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays · first 11:00, last 19:20 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, Cars Région Savoie (Altibus) · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Turin-Caselle (TRN) : 2 h 22 by road · 157 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 2 h 02 by road · 146 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
- Savoie Route ↗ — 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.