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
- Savoie Route ↗ — 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 Tignes Information and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September