Getting to La Colmiane
La Colmiane is 1 h 17 by road from Nice (70 km), 10 h 46 from Paris, 1 h 17 from L'Ariane La Trinité railway station.
La Colmiane is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Alpes-Maritimes), in the commune of Valdeblore. The village sits at 1,503 m and the ski area rises to 1,786 m, a skiable vertical of 354 m.
Getting to La Colmiane
By road
- From Nice : 1 h 17 · 70 km
- From Marseille : 3 h 18 · 254 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 40 · 383 km
- From Valence : 4 h 53 · 427 km
- From Grenoble : 5 h 50 · 519 km · avoids Col de la Bonette, closed in winter
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon : 6 h 00 · 527 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 01 · 531 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 6 h 15 · 546 km
- From Chambéry : 6 h 50 · 550 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Toulouse : 6 h 57 · 617 km
- From Annecy : 7 h 19 · 597 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Genève : 7 h 35 · 605 km · via L'Ariane La Trinité station
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 7 h 47 · 690 km
- From Dijon : 8 h 01 · 719 km
- From Besançon : 8 h 33 · 605 km
- From Pau : 8 h 52 · 807 km
- From Bordeaux : 9 h 21 · 859 km
- From Nancy : 10 h 09 · 930 km
- From Strasbourg : 10 h 12 · 806 km
- From Paris : 10 h 46 · 989 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
L'Ariane La Trinité station
halt · then 1 h 17 by road (72 km)
Nearest main station: Nice, 1 h 18 by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Nice-Côte d’Azur (NCE) : 1 h 12 by road · 66 km
- Cuneo (CUF) : 3 h 57 by road · 217 km
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By electric car
2 charging locations within 2 km
4charging points · up to22 kW
- Valdeblore - Col de la Colmiane · IZIVIA · 2points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- Valdeblore - Saint Delmas/Les Mûres · IZIVIA · 2points · 22 kW · 1.5 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoutes 06 (Alpes-Maritimes) ↗ — 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 Métropolitain La Colmiane Valdeblore and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September