Méribel-Village
Méribel-Village is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Les Allues. The village sits at 1,942 m and the ski area rises to 2,450 m, a skiable vertical of 1,028 m.
The area offers 297 km of alpine pistes, 277 marked pistes (44 green, 149 blue, 64 red, 20 black), 45 ski lifts, plus a snowpark. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Méribel-Village belongs to the linked Les 3 Vallées area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 8 km (Biolley) and the highest lift tops out at 2,916 m.
The resort holds the Flocon Vert and Station classée de tourisme labels.
Access: 1 h 59 by road from Chambéry and 1 h 02 from Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains railway station.
8 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 French resorts we cover — 5 stars means “among the best in France on this point”, not “perfect”. Nobody types these in.
- SnowCan you count on the snow?4 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,450 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,422 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 132 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 92%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 297 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 425 km · Lifts: 45 · Balance between piste levels: 83%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €70 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.16/km · Adult 6-day pass: €350 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 70% · Magic carpets: 8 · Sledging runs: 7 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 3
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 24 · Nearest railway station: 1 hr 02 · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 10
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?4 / 5
Bars and pubs: 12 · Nightclubs: 2 · Restaurants: 34 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 3,841 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?4 / 5
5-star hotels: 1 · 4-star hotels: 3 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 53% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €70 — index: what the map and the listings publish
“Atmosphere” and “Luxury” are indexes: they count what OpenStreetMap and the event listings publish within 2.5 km (bars, nightclubs, rated hotels, spas, upcoming events), not what you experience there. A zero means “nothing mapped”, not “nothing there”. Sources per criterion: snow (altitudes (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; value (the resort’s official price list) ; families and beginners (OpenStreetMap pistes, price list, ESF ski school, Famille Plus label, OpenStreetMap leisure) ; access (OSRM drive times from 20 cities, SNCF stations, GTFS shuttles, airports) ; atmosphere and après-ski (bars, nightclubs and restaurants within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap), upcoming events (OpenAgenda), collective tourist beds (INSEE)) ; luxury and comfort (rated hotels within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap) and by category across the commune (INSEE), spas and boutiques (OpenStreetMap), day pass price).
Open pistes and lifts will appear here during the season, as published by the resort. Out of season we show nothing rather than a misleading zero.
Avalanche danger
7-day forecast
Village 1,942 m · top 2,450 m
Forecast corrected for altitude; fresh snow = forecast total at the top; UV = peak of the day. Beyond 3 days, check the resort’s own report. Source:Open-Meteo.
Average snow depth by month
Good snow from December to March: a long, reliable season.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.4 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 6.1 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.2 h · Apr 9.8 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November—no record
- December48 cmGood skiing · 80%
- January74 cmGood skiing · 88%
- February90 cmGood skiing · 99%
- March94 cmGood skiing · 100%
- April47 cmVariable · 62%
- May—no record
30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.
- Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
- Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
- Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two
Snow actually measured, winter by winter
12 complete winters measured, from 2003-2004 to 2017-2018 — on average 132 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec52 cmGood skiing · 84 %
- 16-31 Dec62 cmGood skiing · 91 %
- 1-15 Jan84 cmGood skiing · 99 %
- 16-31 Jan108 cmGood skiing · 100 %
- 1-15 Feb116 cmGood skiing · 100 %
- 16-29 Feb127 cmGood skiing · 100 %
- 1-15 Mar144 cmGood skiing · 100 %
- 16-31 Mar143 cmGood skiing · 100 %
- 1-15 Apr135 cmGood skiing · 100 %
- Best winter of the series
- 2003-2004 — 137 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 2006-2007 — 107 days at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 559 cm a winter on average, spread over 59 days of snowfall. Measured over 12 complete winters.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 70 cm — 2007-2008
- Snowiest winter
- 2017-2018 — 867 cm
- Leanest winter
- 2016-2017 — 363 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →277 pistes, by level — 297 km
- Skiable vertical
- 1,028 m (1,422 m → 2,450 m)
- Lifts
- 1 funicular, 12 gondolas, 12 chairlifts, 13 drag lifts, 8 magic carpets
- Cross-country skiing
- 7 named trails — 69 km of marked loops (21 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 2.7 km from the resortOpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
See the trails(7)
Trail Level Length Méribel Altiport - Courchevel La Tania n/a 15 km Méribel Altiport - Courchevel 1850 n/a 15 km Le Plantin - Méribel Altiport n/a 12 km Courchevel 1850 - La Tania n/a 12 km Le Fontany - Méribel Altiport n/a 8.1 km Le Bouc Blanc n/a 5.3 km L’Altiport - Méribel Altiport n/a 1.4 km - Snowpark
- 4 mapped zones — Bumpy Run · Speedy Run · Open Park · Boardercross
OpenStreetMap, surveyed on 12 September 2026. OpenStreetMap does not map individual features (kickers, rails): what is counted here are the named zones. - Night skiing
- 1 floodlit pistes (OSM)
- Without skis
- 8 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 7 sledging runs
- Piste aspect
- N 43% · E 16% · S 9% · W 32% (descent direction of 144 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Mountain restaurants
- Le Grand Lac (2248 m) · Chalet Tonia (2150 m)
- Tourist office
- OFFICE DE TOURISME DE MERIBEL · Parc Olympique - 510 route Albert Gacon - Méribel - Centre, 73550 · +33(0)479086001 · [email protected] (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Piste map (PDF)
- Plan des pistes (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- Horaires Méribus été 2026 (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
Resort data: declared by OFFICE DE TOURISME DE MERIBEL and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September
Opening hours lift by lift (2)
| Lift | Type | Opens | Closes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masse | téléski | 09:15 | 16:50 | OpenStreetMap |
| Pointe de la Masse | télécabine | 09:05 | 16:35 | OpenStreetMap |
Hours as published by the source quoted, read on 15 September 2026. A lift missing from this table has no published time — no default is shown.
Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.
Lift passes (2026-2027) detail →
| Adult pass | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 day | €70 |
| 6 days | €350 |
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Price list of the linked area, read on Les Menuires. Official price list ↗
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 2026Measured on OpenStreetMap (altitudes: IGN RGE ALTI), not taken from the brochure. The vertical above is that of one piste, not of the whole ski area. Population: INSEE municipal population via geo.api.gouv.fr.
Staying and hiring gear in Méribel-Village
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Pistes coloured by level, lifts as lines. The resort’s official map is the reference in season.
Base map © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · pistes © OpenSnowMap (CC-BY-SA) · data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Getting to Méribel-Village
From Paris: 7 hr 46 (670 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 59 · 101 km
- From Annecy: 2 hr 14 · 94 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 15 · 130 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 56 · 141 km
- From Lyon: 3 hr 09 · 199 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 3 hr 19 · 223 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 43 · 248 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 01 · 400 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 02 · 368 km
- From Besançon: 5 hr 16 · 313 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 25 · 427 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 31 · 437 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 47 · 575 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 52 · 514 km
- From Nancy: 7 hr 08 · 611 km
- From Strasbourg: 7 hr 11 · 530 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 43 · 661 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 46 · 670 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 00 · 755 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 38 · 851 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station
regional station · then 1 hr 02 drive (24 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 57 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a private shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 2 hr 10 by road · 108 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 48 by road · 176 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Méribel-Village as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 September 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.
Freely accessible charge points read from the French national EV charging database (data.gouv.fr ↗, operators’ own declarations), checked on 9 September 2026. Check availability before you leave: the database says what is installed, not what is free tonight.
Road conditions
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain areas (French “Loi Montagne II”).
Driving times computed on the OpenStreetMap road network (OSRM), SNCF stations (open data), airports (Wikidata). Indicative, not a timetable: allow extra time in snow.
Off-piste & ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Named itineraries: Tétras · Couloir Tournier · Liberty Ride La Riondaz
Itineraries surveyed on OpenStreetMap within a 4 km radius (7 September 2026): “marked” means an itinerary exists on the map, not that it is open or safe on the day.
Ski touring routes described
Resorts for ski touring →12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Méribel-Village — up to 1,350 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Verdet · La Combe Cure | n/a · PD | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | NE | 1.6 km |
| Le Verdet · Itinéraire de Béranger | n/a · PD- | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | NW | 1.6 km |
| Le Verdet · Itinéraire de Saint Martin | n/a · PD- | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | W | 1.6 km |
| Le Verdet · Saint Martin par Villarabout | n/a · PD- | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | W | 1.6 km |
| Le Verdet · Le Creux de la Stetta | n/a · PD+ | 1 m | 2,294 → 2,294 m | E | 1.6 km |
| Roc des 3 marches · Roc des 3 marches depuis Mottaret | 1.2 · E1 · F+ | 1,015 m | 1,690 → 2,705 m | E | 3 km |
| Croix des Verdons / Dent de Burgin · Couloir Ouest | 4.1 · E1 · PD | 1,240 m | 1,440 → 2,650 m | W | 4.1 km |
| Col du Fruit · Versant SW (Méribel) | 2.3 · E1 · PD+ | 1,000 m | 1,500 → 2,516 m | SW | 4.4 km |
| La Saulire · Par les pistes de Courchevel | 2.1 · E1 · PD | 900 m | 1,850 → 2,740 m | N | 4.4 km |
| Dos de Crêt Voland · En boucle par le Roc de la Lune, Le Prés des Cristaux et la Combe des Dogettes | 1.1 · E1 · F | 900 m | 1,589 → 2,092 m | SW | 4.4 km |
| Dos de Crêt Voland · Depuis Béranger | 1.2 · E1 | 511 m | 1,581 → 2,092 m | SW | 4.4 km |
| Aiguille du Fruit · Couloir NW | 4.3 · E1 · D | 1,350 m | 1,680 → 3,051 m | NW | 4.9 km |
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 September 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Beyond skiing at Méribel-Village
Toboggan runs
- Piste de luge (Courchevel 1850 - Courchevel Village) · Courchevel · 7.3 km away
- Piste de luge Moriond Racing · Courchevel · 8.5 km away
Swimming pool
- Parc Olympique · Les Allues · 1.4 km away
- Piscine en plein-air de la Tania · Courchevel · 6.1 km away
- Piscine publique · Brides-les-Bains · 7.8 km away
- La Bulle des Bruyères - Piscine Aqualudique · Les Belleville · 8 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Le Grand Spa Thermal · Brides-les-Bains · 7.7 km away
- Les Thermes de Brides-Les-Bains · Brides-les-Bains · 7.7 km away
- Aquamotion - SPA · Courchevel · 8.1 km away
Paragliding
- Audacius by Prosneige Parapente · Les Allues · 1.5 km away
- A Parapente · Les Allues · 4.4 km away
- TandemTOP Paragliding · Courchevel · 7.2 km away
- Team FBI Parapente Tandem · Courchevel · 7.6 km away
Museum
- Musée de Saint Martin, 150 ans d'histoire d'une haute-vallée de Savoie · Les Belleville · 3.9 km away
- Musée des Allues · Les Allues · 5.3 km away
- Tour Sarrazine, musée · Bozel · 9.8 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Méribel-Mottaret · Les Allues · 2.5 km away
- Cinéma Le Doron · Brides-les-Bains · 7.7 km away
- Cinéma du Lac Blanc · Les Belleville · 9.9 km away
Source: DATAtourisme (open data), within 10 km of the resort; places in a large town of the valley are left out. Checked on 12 September 2026. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Practical information
Collective accommodation
3,841 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 20 hotels · 825 rooms (3 × 5★, 6 × 4★, 6 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 3 holiday villages and family centres · 502 bed spaces
- 10 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 3,339 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 15 pitches
Commune: Les Allues · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Ski school
ESF Meribel Les Allues
375 instructors
🇬🇧 260 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Days without skiing
- Bowling · Bowling Méribel
- Cinema · Auditorium de Méribel
- Cinema · Le Mottaret
In case of accident
112 — the European emergency number, free of charge, triggers mountain rescue. On the pistes, the ski patrol number is printed on the piste map and at lift ticket offices. Piste rescue is charged: check your insurance or take the option sold with the lift pass.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Méribel-Village?
Méribel-Village sits at 1,942 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,450 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Méribel-Village have?
Méribel-Village has 297 km of pistes served by 45 lifts, within the linked Les 3 Vallées area (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Méribel-Village?
The longest piste is Biolley: 8 km (blue run), for 375 m of vertical. Measured on the OpenStreetMap map, segments of the same name and level joined end to end, altitudes from the IGN RGE ALTI terrain model — a resort sometimes advertises a longer run by chaining several pistes.
How high do the lifts go in Méribel-Village?
The highest lift, Mont Vallon, tops out at 2,916 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 117 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 138 km.
How much is a lift pass in Méribel-Village?
The adult day pass costs €70 and the 6-day pass €350 (2026-2027, read on the official price list, shared with Les Menuires).
How do I get to Méribel-Village?
By road, Méribel-Village is 1 hr 59 from Chambéry (101 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains, 1 hr 02 by road from the resort. No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables. The nearest airport is Chambéry-Savoie, 2 hr 10 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Méribel-Village?
7 hr 46 for 670 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is the snow reliable in Méribel-Village?
Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; in season the daily report prevails.
Is Méribel-Village good for beginners and families?
70% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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