Super-Besse
Off season · opens 18 December 2026Super-Besse is a winter sports resort in the Massif central, in the Massif du Sancy.

Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Each player is the camera operator’s own, loaded only when you ask for it — it may set its own trackers.
Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 12 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 18 December 2026 and close on 21 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the CHASTREIX station (1,385 m)
Source: Météo-France, CHASTREIX weather station, 6.4 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from early February to mid-February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 15 winters at the Météo-France “CHASTREIX” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 15 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,300 m · top 1,850 m
Forecast corrected for altitude; fresh snow = forecast total at the top; UV = peak of the day. Beyond 3 days, check the resort’s own report. Source:Open-Meteo.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 315 French resorts we cover — 5 stars means “among the best in France on this point”, not “perfect”. Nobody types these in.
- SnowCan you count on the snow?2 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,850 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,350 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 47 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 0%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 40 km · Lifts: 19 · Balance between piste levels: 96%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €43.50 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €1.09/km · Adult 6-day pass: €236
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 56% · Magic carpets: 5 · Sledging runs: 2 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 3 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 33 · Nearest railway station: 42 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 10
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 13 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 2,382 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 10% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €43.50 — index: what the map and the listings publish
“Atmosphere” and “Luxury” are indexes: they count what OpenStreetMap and the event listings publish within 2.5 km (bars, nightclubs, rated hotels, spas, upcoming events), not what you experience there. A zero means “nothing mapped”, not “nothing there”. Sources per criterion: snow (altitudes declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), STRMTG register, OpenStreetMap; snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (figures declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), national lift register (STRMTG), OpenStreetMap) ; value (the resort’s official price list) ; families and beginners (OpenStreetMap pistes, price list, ESF ski school, Famille Plus label, OpenStreetMap leisure) ; access (OSRM drive times from 20 cities, SNCF stations, GTFS shuttles, airports) ; atmosphere and après-ski (bars, nightclubs and restaurants within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap), upcoming events (OpenAgenda), collective tourist beds (INSEE)) ; luxury and comfort (rated hotels within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap) and by category across the commune (INSEE), spas and boutiques (OpenStreetMap), day pass price).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€236 6 days€31 Child, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
32 pistes, by level
- Skiable vertical
- 500 m
- Snowpark
- 2 mapped zones — Boarder cross · Freepark
- Cross-country skiing
- 36 km of nordic trails
Ski-area figures — village: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept) . The national register attributes 22 lifts to Super-Besse alone; the figure above comes from the most reliable source.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 2026Measured on OpenStreetMap (altitudes: IGN RGE ALTI), not taken from the brochure. The vertical above is that of one piste, not of the whole ski area. Population: INSEE municipal population via geo.api.gouv.fr.
Source: national register of mechanical lifts (STRMTG, CAIRN), fleet as of 1 January 2025 — lifts attributed to Super-Besse only (“SUPER BESSE”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Super-Besse
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Collective accommodation
2,382 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 13 hotels · 335 rooms (1 × 4★, 4 × 3★, 5 × 2★)
- 4 holiday villages and family centres · 1,470 bed spaces
- 2 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 912 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 125 pitches
Commune: Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Stay & accommodation
Ski hire
Gear & equipment
Beyond skiing at Super-Besse
Without skis on — 28 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs
Toboggan runs
- Luge d'été de Super-Besse · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 0 km away
- Luge d'été Lego® du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 6.9 km away
- Petite Rouge · OpenStreetMap
- Luge sur rail · OpenStreetMap
Ice rink
- Patinoire · Mont-Dore · 7.5 km away
Swimming pool
- Centre ludo-sportif Les Hermines : Espace aquatique · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 0.5 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Centre ludo-sportif Les Hermines : Espace Bien-être · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 0.4 km away
- Escapade Beauté · Mont-Dore · 7.4 km away
- Cures médicales - Thermes du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 7.5 km away
- Spa de l'Etablissement Thermal du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 7.5 km away
Dog sledding
- Chiens de traîneau des volcans · Picherande · 8.3 km away
Paragliding
- Site de Parapente de Super-Besse · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 0.2 km away
- Sites de parapente du Mont-Dore · Mont-Dore · 7.4 km away
Museum
- Lemoineau Art · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 6.4 km away
- Espace culturel Joseph Foret · Mont-Dore · 7.4 km away
- Musée Joseph Forêt · Mont-Dore · 7.4 km away
- MÉM / Musée des peintres de l'École de Murol · Murol · 9.9 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma : Ciné-Super · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 0.2 km away
- Cinéma : Ciné-Besse · Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise · 6.4 km away
- Cinéma : L'Olympic · Mont-Dore · 7.7 km away
Source: DATAtourisme (open data), within 10 km of the resort; places in a large town of the valley are left out. Checked on 12 September 2026. Lines marked OpenStreetMap come from the map, within 3 km — opening times on site. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF Super Besse
92 instructors
🇬🇧 80 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de tourisme de Super-Besse · Rond Point des pistes, 63610 · +33(0)473796029 · otsancy-accueil@sancy.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
In case of accident
112 — the European emergency number, free of charge, triggers mountain rescue. On the pistes, the ski patrol number is printed on the piste map and at lift ticket offices. Piste rescue is charged: check your insurance or take the option sold with the lift pass.
Resort data: declared by Office de tourisme de Super-Besse and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Super-Besse — up to 1,200 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puy de la Perdrix · Couloir Toboggan | 4.1 · E1 | 700 m | 1,137 → 1,850 m | NE | 1.9 km |
| Puy de la Perdrix · par le Signavoux | 1.3 · E1 · F+ | 636 m | 1,284 → 1,824 m | SE · S · E | 1.9 km |
| Puy Ferrand · Couloirs du Puy Ferrand | 4.2 · E2 · D | 724 m | 1,130 → 1,854 m | NE | 2.3 km |
| Puy de Sancy · Couloir en S et traversée du Puy Gros, du Sud | n/a · AD | 930 m | 1,360 → 1,885 m | S | 2.5 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 October 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Official piste map
Open the piste map (image, 239 KB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
Pistes coloured by level, lifts as lines. The resort’s official map is the reference in season.
Base map © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · pistes © OpenSnowMap (CC-BY-SA) · data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Getting to Super-Besse
From Paris: 5 hr 15 (474 km) by road.
By road
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 59 min · 55 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 26 · 195 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 45 · 217 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 48 · 313 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 50 · 317 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Grenoble: 3 hr 55 · 318 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 57 · 315 km
- From Bordeaux: 4 hr 10 · 370 km
- From Toulouse: 4 hr 14 · 374 km
- From Annecy: 4 hr 16 · 352 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 17 · 372 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 23 · 372 km
- From Perpignan: 4 hr 45 · 418 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 53 · 430 km
- From Paris: 5 hr 15 · 474 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 46 · 486 km
- From Pau: 6 hr 11 · 566 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 24 · 583 km
- From Strasbourg: 7 hr 16 · 668 km
- From Nice: 7 hr 23 · 644 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Parent - Coudes - Champeix station
halt · then 42 min drive (39 km)
Nearest main station: Clermont-Ferrand, 1 hr 00 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 2026): ask the resort about a private shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne (CFE): 1 hr 10 by road · 61 km
- Limoges (LIG): 2 hr 46 by road · 234 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Super-Besse as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
4 charging points · up to 25 kW
- CHARGEZY - Besse et Saint Anastaise - Pistes · SPIE CityNetworks · 3 points · 25 kW · 0.3 km
- Hôtel les Charmilles · RAIDEN · 1 point · 11 kW · 0.3 km
Freely accessible charge points read from the French national EV charging database (data.gouv.fr ↗, operators’ own declarations), checked on 9 October 2026. Check availability before you leave: the database says what is installed, not what is free tonight.
Road conditions
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain areas (French “Loi Montagne II”).
Driving times computed on the OpenStreetMap road network (OSRM), SNCF stations (open data), airports (Wikidata). Indicative, not a timetable: allow extra time in snow.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Super-Besse?
Super-Besse sits at 1,300 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,850 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Super-Besse have?
Super-Besse has 40 km of slopes, 19 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Super-Besse?
The longest piste is Bois Joli: 3 km (green run), for 224 m of vertical. Measured on the OpenStreetMap map, segments of the same name and level joined end to end, altitudes from the IGN RGE ALTI terrain model — a resort sometimes advertises a longer run by chaining several pistes.
How high do the lifts go in Super-Besse?
The highest lift, Perce Neige (chairlift), tops out at 2,005 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Super-Besse have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 22 installations at Super-Besse (1 gondola, 4 chairlifts, 12 drag lifts, 5 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 20,450 people per hour, of which 3,000 for Funitel de la perdrix alone. The fleet spans 1965 to 2017, an average age of 32 years. This count covers the resort itself, magic carpets included, not the whole linked ski area — a resort brochure often announces a different number. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How much is a lift pass in Super-Besse?
The adult day pass costs €43.50 and the 6-day pass €236 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Super-Besse?
By road, Super-Besse is 59 min from Clermont-Ferrand (55 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Parent - Coudes - Champeix, 42 min by road from the resort. No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables. The nearest airport is Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne, 1 hr 10 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Super-Besse?
5 hr 15 for 474 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
What time do the lifts open in Super-Besse?
Lifts are announced open from 09:00 to 17:00, according to the official website (read on 29 September 2026).
When does Super-Besse open?
According to the dates declared by the resort (ANMSM feed), the resort opens on 18 December 2026 and closes on 21 March 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Super-Besse?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from early February to mid-February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 15 winters at the Météo-France “CHASTREIX” station. This verdict rests on 15 winters of Météo-France measurements (2008-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Super-Besse good for beginners and families?
56% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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