Getting to Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse

Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse is 20 min by road from Grenoble (14 km), 6 h 12 from Paris, 20 min from Grenoble Universités - Gières railway station.

Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère). The village sits at 977 m.

Getting to Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse

By road

  • From Grenoble : 20 min · 14 km
  • From Chambéry : 53 min · 64 km
  • From Valence : 1 h 19 · 103 km
  • From Annecy : 1 h 23 · 111 km
  • From Lyon : 1 h 35 · 116 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Genève : 1 h 52 · 148 km
  • From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 08 · 165 km
  • From Montpellier : 3 h 26 · 308 km
  • From Dijon : 3 h 27 · 317 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 28 · 285 km
  • From Marseille : 3 h 31 · 317 km
  • From Besançon : 3 h 46 · 347 km
  • From Perpignan : 4 h 48 · 456 km
  • From Nice : 5 h 09 · 475 km
  • From Nancy : 5 h 34 · 528 km
  • From Toulouse : 5 h 44 · 542 km
  • From Strasbourg : 6 h 07 · 538 km
  • From Paris : 6 h 12 · 587 km
  • From Bordeaux : 7 h 26 · 672 km
  • From Pau : 7 h 38 · 732 km

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

By train

Grenoble Universités - Gières station

regional station · then 20 min by road (14 km)

Nearest main station: Grenoble, 20 min 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

  • Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 49 min by road · 56 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 05 by road · 71 km

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By electric car

1 charging location within 2 km

2charging points · up to25 kW

  • LE SAPPEY EN CHARTREUSE - Parking Jacobine · Bouygues Energies & Services · 2points · 25 kW · 0.4 km

Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.

Road conditions

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.