Getting to Les Contamines-Montjoie
Les Contamines-Montjoie is 1 h 11 by road from Genève (78 km), 6 h 37 from Paris, 23 min from Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Le Fayet railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Les Contamines-Montjoie is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 1,199 m and the ski area rises to 2,445 m, a skiable vertical of 1,626 m.
Getting to Les Contamines-Montjoie
By road
- From Genève : 1 h 11 · 78 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 23 · 102 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 41 · 106 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 57 · 135 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 45 · 221 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 3 h 00 · 228 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 23 · 280 km
- From Besançon : 3 h 39 · 252 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 46 · 334 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 28 · 392 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 07 · 432 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 13 · 442 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 30 · 442 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 48 · 537 km
- From Nice : 5 h 55 · 486 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 29 · 580 km
- From Paris : 6 h 37 · 613 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 25 · 666 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 26 · 778 km
- From Pau : 9 h 20 · 856 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Le Fayet station
regional station · then 23 min by road (15 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 h 21 by road.
- From Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Le Fayet station (stop « Casino ») : Y84 — SALLANCHES → CONTAMINES (REGION - cars Région Haute-Savoie), 38 min to the “Chef-lieu” stop — 11 departures a day on weekdays, 13 a day at weekends · first 06:40, last 19:41 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, Cars Région Haute-Savoie (Altibus) · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 35 by road · 86 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 52 by road · 113 km
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By electric car
2 charging locations within 2 km
4charging points · up to24 kW
- LES CONTAMINES MONTJOIE - Parking du Solaret · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 1 km
- LES CONTAMINES-MONTJOIE - Parking du Solaret 2 · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 1 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 74 (Haute-Savoie) ↗ — 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 Les Contamines Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September