Getting to Les Houches

Les Houches is 56 min by road from Genève (75 km), 6 h 23 from Paris, 2 min from Les Houches railway station.

Les Houches is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 1,004 m and the ski area rises to 1,401 m.

Getting to Les Houches

By road

  • From Genève : 56 min · 75 km
  • From Annecy : 1 h 09 · 99 km
  • From Chambéry : 1 h 37 · 140 km
  • From Grenoble : 1 h 59 · 142 km
  • From Lyon : 2 h 31 · 218 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence : 3 h 02 · 234 km
  • From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 09 · 276 km
  • From Besançon : 3 h 25 · 249 km
  • From Dijon : 3 h 32 · 331 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 14 · 388 km
  • From Strasbourg : 5 h 00 · 417 km
  • From Montpellier : 5 h 09 · 439 km
  • From Marseille : 5 h 14 · 448 km
  • From Nice : 5 h 25 · 461 km
  • From Nancy : 5 h 34 · 534 km
  • From Paris : 6 h 23 · 610 km
  • From Perpignan : 6 h 30 · 587 km
  • From Toulouse : 7 h 26 · 673 km
  • From Bordeaux : 8 h 12 · 775 km
  • From Pau : 9 h 21 · 863 km

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

By train

Les Houches station

halt · then 2 min by road (1 km)

Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 h 07 by road.

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

By plane

  • Genève (GVA) : 1 h 21 by road · 83 km
  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 40 by road · 139 km

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By electric car

5 charging locations within 2 km

18charging points · up to300 kW

  • LES HOUCHES - Parking du Fresnay · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
  • 333 Rue de l'Essert · QOVOLTIS · 4points · 22 kW · 0.5 km
  • HOTEL ST ANTOINE · CAR2PLUG · 2points · 22 kW · 0.9 km
  • RELAIS HOUCHES NORD · TotalEnergies Marketing France · 4points · 300 kW · 1.3 km
  • LES HOUCHES - Base de Loisirs des Chavants · EASYCHARGE · 6points · 22 kW · 1.4 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.

Resort data: declared by Office de tourisme des Houches and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September