Getting to Tignes

Tignes is 2 h 01 by road from Chambéry (135 km), 7 h 48 from Paris, 35 min from Bourg-Saint-Maurice railway station.

Tignes is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 1,440 m and the ski area rises to 2,664 m, a skiable vertical of 614 m.

Getting to Tignes

By road

  • From Chambéry : 2 h 01 · 135 km
  • From Annecy : 2 h 16 · 128 km
  • From Grenoble : 2 h 17 · 164 km
  • From Genève : 2 h 58 · 174 km · avoids Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard, closed in winter
  • From Lyon : 3 h 11 · 233 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence : 3 h 20 · 257 km
  • From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 45 · 282 km
  • From Dijon : 5 h 03 · 434 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 04 · 402 km
  • From Besançon : 5 h 18 · 347 km
  • From Montpellier : 5 h 27 · 461 km
  • From Marseille : 5 h 33 · 470 km
  • From Strasbourg : 6 h 47 · 496 km
  • From Perpignan : 6 h 49 · 609 km
  • From Nancy : 7 h 10 · 645 km
  • From Nice : 7 h 11 · 628 km · via Bourg-Saint-Maurice station
  • From Toulouse : 7 h 45 · 695 km
  • From Paris : 7 h 48 · 703 km
  • From Bordeaux : 9 h 02 · 788 km
  • From Pau : 9 h 40 · 885 km

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

By train

Bourg-Saint-Maurice station

regional station · then 35 min by road (30 km)

Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 59 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

  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 2 h 12 by road · 142 km
  • Genève (GVA) : 3 h 11 by road · 179 km

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By electric car

6 charging locations within 2 km

18charging points · up to50 kW

  • Rue des Almes · QOVOLTIS · 2points · 22 kW · 0.2 km
  • Rue des Almes · QOVOLTIS · 3points · 22 kW · 0.2 km
  • 441 Rue des Almes · QOVOLTIS · 4points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
  • 318 Rue des Almes · QOVOLTIS · 4points · 22 kW · 0.4 km
  • Tignespace · RAIDEN · 2points · 44 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.

Resort data: declared by Tignes Information and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September