Getting to Vars
Vars is 2 h 53 by road from Grenoble (164 km), 8 h 42 from Paris, 22 min from Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre railway station.
Vars is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,860 m and the ski area rises to 2,719 m, a skiable vertical of 939 m.
Getting to Vars
By road
- From Grenoble : 2 h 53 · 164 km
- From Chambéry : 3 h 03 · 209 km
- From Marseille : 3 h 15 · 248 km
- From Annecy : 3 h 32 · 256 km
- From Valence : 3 h 49 · 253 km
From other major cities (14)
- From Genève : 4 h 02 · 294 km
- From Lyon : 4 h 05 · 266 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 33 · 370 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 4 h 38 · 315 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 55 · 518 km
- From Dijon : 5 h 57 · 467 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 58 · 435 km
- From Besançon : 6 h 16 · 497 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 51 · 605 km
- From Nancy : 8 h 04 · 678 km
- From Strasbourg : 8 h 17 · 684 km
- From Paris : 8 h 42 · 737 km
- From Pau : 8 h 45 · 794 km
- From Bordeaux : 9 h 14 · 847 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station
halt · then 22 min by road (19 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 h 53 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
- Cuneo (CUF) : 2 h 11 by road · 121 km
- Turin-Caselle (TRN) : 2 h 43 by road · 170 km
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By electric car
3 charging locations within 2 km
6charging points · up to22 kW
- VARS - Les Claux · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- CSE - BdF - Vars · NVH · 2points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
- CSE - BdF - Vars · NVH · 2points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute 05 (Hautes-Alpes) ↗ — 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 du Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September