Getting to Villard-de-Lans
Villard-de-Lans is 50 min by road from Grenoble (37 km), 6 h 29 from Paris, 48 min from Grenoble railway station.
Villard-de-Lans is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère). The village sits at 1,146 m and the ski area rises to 2,021 m, a skiable vertical of 1,021 m.
Getting to Villard-de-Lans
By road
- From Grenoble : 50 min · 37 km
- From Valence : 1 h 13 · 72 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 31 · 95 km
- From Lyon : 1 h 52 · 131 km
- From Annecy : 2 h 00 · 142 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 26 · 179 km
- From Genève : 2 h 30 · 180 km
- From Montpellier : 3 h 20 · 276 km
- From Marseille : 3 h 26 · 285 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 44 · 331 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 45 · 299 km
- From Besançon : 4 h 03 · 361 km
- From Perpignan : 4 h 42 · 424 km
- From Nice : 5 h 03 · 443 km
- From Toulouse : 5 h 38 · 510 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 51 · 542 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 26 · 599 km
- From Paris : 6 h 29 · 601 km
- From Pau : 7 h 33 · 700 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 43 · 686 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Grenoble station
main station, high-speed rail · then 48 min by road (37 km)
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
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 1 h 06 by road · 70 km
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS) : 1 h 36 by road · 118 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
- Itinisère (Isère) ↗ — 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 Municipal du Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September