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Serre Chevalier de Briançon

Southern Alps Altitude 1,292 – 2,296 m Linked area Serre Chevalier Checked on 18 September 2026
1,292 mVillage altitude
2,296 mTop of the ski area
56 kmAlpine pistes
12Ski lifts
—Adult day pass

Serre Chevalier de Briançon is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of Briançon. The village sits at 1,292 m and the ski area rises to 2,296 m.

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Serre Chevalier de Briançon — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The area offers 56 km of alpine pistes, 40 marked pistes (13 green, 6 blue, 20 red, 1 black), 12 ski lifts, plus a snowpark.

Serre Chevalier de Briançon belongs to the linked Serre Chevalier area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.

Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 13 km (Chemin) and the highest lift tops out at 2,644 m.

Access: 2 h 06 by road from Grenoble and 6 min from Briançon railway station.

SkiRadar ratings

How ratings are computed →Computed on 18 September 2026

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.

  1. SnowCan you count on the snow?
    3.5 / 5

    Top of the ski area: 2,296 m · Bottom of the pistes: 2,296 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 77 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 91%

  2. Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?
    3.5 / 5

    Km of pistes at the resort: 56 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 203 km · Lifts: 12 · Balance between piste levels: 79%

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    n/a

    Not rated: “adult day pass” is missing from this page.

  4. Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?
    2 / 5

    Share of green and blue pistes: 48% · Magic carpets: 2 · Sledging runs: 0 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 4

  5. AccessIs it easy to get to?
    3 / 5

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 13 · Nearest railway station: 6 min · Nearest airport: 1 hr 57

  6. Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?
    4 / 5

    Bars and pubs: 10 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 50 · Upcoming events: 7 · Collective tourist beds: 678 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?
    3 / 5

    5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 1 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 18% · Spas and saunas: 1 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 5 — 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).

Snow and opening

7-day forecast → Snow report →
Status unknown

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.

7-day forecast

Village 1,292 m · top 2,296 m

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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 January to March.

Météo-France measurements · 8 winters (2016-2025)

☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.9 h · Dec 6.8 h · Jan 7.1 h · Feb 8.2 h · Mar 9.4 h · Apr 10.6 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).

  1. November—no record
  2. December46 cmVariable · 79%
  3. January57 cmGood skiing · 87%
  4. February69 cmGood skiing · 100%
  5. March81 cmGood skiing · 96%
  6. April43 cmVariable · 54%
  7. 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
Météo-France snow observation network (poste nivo « SERRE CHE-CHANTEMERLE_NIVO » (1905 m, à 5.3 km)) — total snow depth recorded by the resort observers, open archive. During the season the daily report prevails. The percentage is the share of readings with at least 30 cm on the ground; “—”: month without readings.

Snow actually measured, winter by winter

56 complete winters measured, from 1969-1970 to 2025-2026 — on average 77 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.

Météo-France — “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station (1690 m, 15.5 km away) · 12 Sept 2026
  1. 1-15 Dec19 cmInsufficient · 23 %
  2. 16-31 Dec31 cmInsufficient · 47 %
  3. 1-15 Jan42 cmVariable · 65 %
  4. 16-31 Jan52 cmVariable · 73 %
  5. 1-15 Feb58 cmVariable · 79 %
  6. 16-29 Feb60 cmGood skiing · 80 %
  7. 1-15 Mar56 cmVariable · 72 %
  8. 16-31 Mar38 cmInsufficient · 48 %
  9. 1-15 Apr22 cmInsufficient · 27 %
Best winter of the series
1976-1977 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
Worst winter of the series
2006-2007 — 0 day at 30 cm or more

How much snow actually falls — 276 cm a winter on average, spread over 33 days of snowfall. Measured over 54 complete winters, from 1970-1971 to 2023-2024.

Biggest 24-hour snowfall
83 cm — 1992-1993
Snowiest winter
1977-1978 — 617 cm
Leanest winter
2004-2005 — 109 cm
Total snow depth on the ground measured at 06:00 at the Météo-France “ARVIEUX LA CHALP” station (1690 m, 15.5 km away), from the open “Daily climatological data” dataset (Open Licence 2.0). The season is counted from 1 December to 15 April; only winters with at least 95 % of those 136 days measured are kept, so no figure here rests on a handful of readings. The reading is taken at 1690 m, well below the top of the ski area (2296 m), where snow lies deeper. In season, the resort’s daily report prevails. Snowfall figures are the fresh snow depth over 24 hours recorded at the same station (the HNEIGEF column): a day of snowfall is a day with 1 cm or more, and only winters measured 95 % of the time on that column are counted — which is why the record can be longer or shorter than the one for snow on the ground. More snow always falls than remains: some melts, settles or blows away.

The ski area

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40 pistes, by level — 56 km

13 green6 blue20 red1 black
Lifts
2 gondolas, 3 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
Cross-country skiing
8 named trails — 102 km of marked loops (35 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Site Nordique de Serre Chevalier area, 8 km from the resort
See the trails(8)
TrailLevelLength
La Virade · Site Nordique de Serre Chevalierdifficult38 km
La Chalp par Chirouzas · Site Nordique de Serre Chevalierintermediate17 km
La Guisane · Site Nordique de Serre Chevaliereasy11 km
Le Pré des Granges · Site Nordique de Serre Chevalierintermediate11 km
La Chalp · Site Nordique de Serre Chevalierintermediate9.4 km
Chanteloube · Site Nordique de Serre Chevalierintermediate9.2 km
Variante Virade · Site Nordique de Serre Chevalierdifficult5.8 km
La Guibertine · Site Nordique de Serre Chevaliervery easy0.9 km
OpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 13 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
Snowpark
Yes
Piste aspect
N 11% · E 73% · S 15% · W 1% (descent direction of 23 OSM pistes, terrain model)
Piste map (PDF)
Plan-poster (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
Shuttle timetable (PDF)
551_ BRIANCON_LE MONETIER_ETE 2023 (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
Resort app
Android (declared by the resort, ANMSM)

Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September

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 detail →

The price list for this resort is being collected: most resorts publish winter prices between September and November.

The ski area in figures

Measured on 13 September 2026
13 kmLongest piste — Chemin (blue), 643 m of vertical
860 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,265 → 1,405 m, 3 km
2,404 mHighest lift top — Rocher Blanc (chairlift), national lift register
14,846Total lift capacity, people per hour — 12 installations: 2 gondolas, 2 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
27 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1988, newest 2017
2,400Biggest lift, people per hour — Prorel 1 (gondola, 1988)
46 kmTotal length of lifts — 45 lifts mapped
5,124 haSki area boundary (OSM)
11,411Inhabitants — Briançon (INSEE 05023)

Measured 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.

Source: national register of mechanical lifts (STRMTG, CAIRN), fleet as of 1 January 2025 — lifts attributed to Serre Chevalier de Briançon only (“SERRE CHEVALIER 1200 (BRIANCON)”), magic carpets included.

Staying and hiring gear in Serre Chevalier de Briançon

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Stay & accommodation

Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
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Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
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VVF
Family holiday villages, kids’ clubs included.
See offers

Ski hire

Sport 2000 Location
Skis, boots and helmets booked online, collected in a resort shop.
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Skiset
Network of ski-hire shops in the resorts.
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Serre Chevalier ski area webcams

All webcams (8) →

Official cameras of the neighbouring resorts on the linked Serre Chevalier ski area.

Briançon · Chantemerle Open at the operator ↗
▶ Watch live
ProrelChantemerle
▶ Watch live
Saint-Chaffrey — Place du téléphériqueChantemerle
▶ Watch live
MéaChantemerle
▶ Watch live
CucumelleChantemerle
▶ Watch live
Le Monêtier — Le BachasChantemerle
▶ Watch live
Col du LautaretChantemerle
▶ Watch live
Monêtier-les-Bains — Refuge du Clôt des VachesChantemerle

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 Serre Chevalier de Briançon

From Paris: 7 hr 55 (690 km) by road.

By road

  • From Grenoble: 2 hr 06 · 118 km
  • From Chambéry: 2 hr 17 · 163 km
  • From Annecy: 2 hr 46 · 210 km
  • From Valence: 3 hr 03 · 207 km
  • From Genève: 3 hr 15 · 248 km
From other major cities (14)
  • From Lyon: 3 hr 18 · 220 km
  • From Marseille: 3 hr 31 · 261 km
  • From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 52 · 269 km
  • From Montpellier: 4 hr 50 · 384 km
  • From Dijon: 5 hr 10 · 421 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 11 · 388 km
  • From Besançon: 5 hr 29 · 450 km
  • From Perpignan: 6 hr 11 · 532 km
  • From Toulouse: 7 hr 07 · 618 km
  • From Nancy: 7 hr 18 · 632 km
  • From Strasbourg: 7 hr 30 · 638 km
  • From Paris: 7 hr 55 · 690 km
  • From Pau: 9 hr 02 · 808 km
  • From Bordeaux: 9 hr 10 · 775 km

Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.

By train

Briançon station

regional station · then 6 min drive (2 km)

Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 hr 06 by road.

Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.

By plane

  • Turin-Caselle (TRN): 1 hr 57 by road · 123 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 2 hr 28 by road · 171 km

Take me there

These links open the app with Serre Chevalier de Briançon as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.

Charging an electric car

10 charging stations within 2 km

50 charging points · up to 250 kW

  • Avenue René Froger · QOVOLTIS · 3 points · 22 kW · 0.5 km
  • Briançon, France · Tesla · 9 points · 250 kW · 0.8 km
  • IZIVIA FAST - McDonald's - BRIANCON · IZIVIA · 6 points · 150 kW · 0.8 km
  • BRIANCON · ALDI SARL · 4 points · 22 kW · 1.5 km
  • Marie Blachère - Briançon · Power Dot France · 4 points · 100 kW · 1.5 km

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 →
1 Marked off-piste itineraries · 1 km
— Ski touring routes
— Skiable vertical · top 2,296 m

Named itineraries: Couloirs

Safety. Off-piste terrain is neither marked nor made safe by the resort: a transceiver, a shovel, a probe and reading the avalanche bulletin are the minimum — and the best is to go with a mountain guide (see “Practical information”: Bureau des guides). Today's avalanche risk (Météo-France scale of 1 to 5) will appear here during the season.

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 Serre Chevalier de Briançon — up to 10,000 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
Sommet du Prorel · Versant Sn/a950 m1,610 → 2,566 mSW · S · SE3.3 km
La Grande Maye · Par le fort de la Croix de Bretagne2.1 · E1 · PD-1,100 m1,310 → 2,417 mNW3.8 km
Traversée du Queyras · Traversée Larche-Valfréjus par le Thabor.n/a10,000 m3,178 mn/a4.2 km
Cime du Mélézin · versant N par le hameau de Mélézin3.2 · E2 · PD+1,380 m1,300 → 2,680 mN4.5 km
Croix d'Aquila · Couloir SE en traversée3.3 · E2 · AD1,266 m1,200 → 2,466 mSE4.7 km
Le Petit Puy · Couloir SE (dit de la "Font-que-Bulh") - depuis Villar-Saint-Pancrace4.2 · E2 · D1,460 m1,300 → 2,757 mSE4.8 km
L'Ombilic · versant N du Serre des Violettes depuis la Vachette2.3 · E1 · PD+1,050 m1,350 → 2,410 mN4.8 km
Fort de l'Infernet · face NNE3.2 · E11,007 m1,370 → 2,377 mN4.8 km
Pic Jean Rey · Face N4.1 · E2 · AD1,500 m1,387 → 2,777 mN5.2 km
Le Petit Meyret · Voie normale de St-Chaffrey2.1 · E1 · F1,000 m1,455 → 2,473 mS5.2 km
Col du Prorel · Traversée S → Nn/a · F760 m1,350 → 2,396 mN · W · NW · SW · S · SE · E · NE5.2 km
Croix d'Aquila · Versant NEn/a · D-650 m1,800 → 2,486 mNE5.2 km
Not a piste. Neither marked, nor patrolled, nor secured: transceiver, shovel, probe, the day’s avalanche bulletin and, better still, a guide. Ski grade (1.1–5.6) = steepness and commitment; exposure (E1–E4) = consequence of a fall.

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 Serre Chevalier de Briançon

Ice rink

Swimming pool

Spa and thermal baths

Dog sledding

Paragliding

Museum

  • Mini musée du four à pain du Serre · Val-des-Prés · 7.1 km away
  • Musée Autrefois mon village · La Salle-les-Alpes · 7.3 km away
  • Maison de Françoise et Mamès · Cervières · 8.1 km away

Cinema

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

678 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels

  • 12 hotels · 378 rooms (1 × 4★, 5 × 3★, 3 × 2★)
  • 1 holiday village or family centre · 169 bed spaces
  • 2 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 397 bed spaces
  • 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 112 bed spaces
  • 1 campsite · 210 pitches

Commune: Briançon · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗

Tourist office

Office de Tourisme

Ski school

ESF Serre Che Briancon

📞 04 92 20 30 57

🌐 esf-briancon.com

46 instructors

🇬🇧 26 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available

🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in Serre Chevalier de Briançon →

Days without skiing

  • Cinema · Cosmo
  • Spa / wellness · Ahimsa Le Spa
  • Bowling
  • Swimming pool · Parc 1326
  • Cinema · Eden Studio

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.

What's on around Serre Chevalier de Briançon

All 7 upcoming events →

Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.

Nearby resorts

Chantemerle 5 kmSerre Chevalier 7 kmVilleneuve 7 kmMontgenèvre 8 kmLa Blanche 12 kmPelvoux Vallouise 12 km

Frequently asked questions

How high is Serre Chevalier de Briançon?

Serre Chevalier de Briançon sits at 1,292 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,296 m.

How many kilometres of pistes does Serre Chevalier de Briançon have?

Serre Chevalier de Briançon has 56 km of pistes served by 12 lifts, within the linked Serre Chevalier area (OpenStreetMap survey).

What is the longest piste in Serre Chevalier de Briançon?

The longest piste is Chemin: 13 km (blue run), for 643 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 Serre Chevalier de Briançon?

The highest lift, Rocher Blanc (chairlift), tops out at 2,404 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.

How many lifts does Serre Chevalier de Briançon have, and what is their capacity?

The French national register of mechanical lifts records 12 installations at Serre Chevalier de Briançon (2 gondolas, 2 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 14,846 people per hour, of which 2,400 for Prorel 1 alone. The fleet spans 1988 to 2017, an average age of 27 years. This count covers the resort itself, magic carpets included, not the whole linked ski area — a resort brochure often announces a different number. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.

How do I get to Serre Chevalier de Briançon?

By road, Serre Chevalier de Briançon is 2 hr 06 from Grenoble (118 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Briançon, 6 min by road from the resort. The nearest airport is Turin-Caselle, 1 hr 57 away.

How long is the drive from Paris to Serre Chevalier de Briançon?

7 hr 55 for 690 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 Serre Chevalier de Briançon?

Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; in season the daily report prevails.

Is Serre Chevalier de Briançon good for beginners and families?

48% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.

Full page in French. The French page carries the editorial guides and a few extra readings; every figure, webcam and price on this page is the same one. Serre Chevalier de Briançon in French →

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