The Tignes ski area

Tignes has 221 km of pistes, 39 lifts carrying 65,386 people an hour, 614 m of vertical, from 2,050 m to 2,664 m. 18 green runs, 99 blue, 39 red and 18 black.

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.

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Runs by level

174 runs over 221 km:

18 green 99 blue 39 red 18 black

Vertical drop: 614 m — from 2,050 m to 2,664 m
Slope aspect: 41 % east · 37 % north · 13 % west · 9 % south — computed from the fall line of 136 runs
Glacier: Some runs cross a glacier (OpenStreetMap mapping; check summer opening with the resort)
Night skiing: 4 floodlit runs

As declared by the resort(ANMSM feed)

Ski area: Tignes-Val d'Isère
Linked area: Espace Tignes-Val d'Isère · 300 km
Lifts: 3 gondolas · 21 chairlifts · 21 drag lifts · 3 conveyors
Altitude: 1,550 m → 3,456 m (resort base 2,100 m)
Beginners: Beginner zone, free lifts
Fun & sledging: 1 sledge run · fun zone
Nordic: 3 km
Passes (as declared): Enfant 1 jour (forfait station) 57 € · Adulte 1 jour (forfait station) 68 € · Sénior 1 jour (forfait station) 57 € · Enfant 1 jour (forfait domaine relié) 62 € · Adulte 1 jour (forfait domaine relié) 75 € · Sénior 1 jour (forfait domaine relié) 62 € · Enfant 6 jours (forfait domaine relié) 372 € · Adulte 6 jours (forfait domaine relié) 450 € (official page)

Figures entered by the resort itself in the ANMSM feed. Our own survey (OpenStreetMap, STRMTG register) is shown above; when the two differ, the resort usually counts its whole linked area.

The ski area in figures

Measured on 9 September 2026

6 kmLongest piste — Prariond (blue), 341 m of vertical

875 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,671 → 1,795 m, 3 km

3,451 mHighest lift top — Grande Motte (aerial tramway), national lift register

65,386Total lift capacity, people per hour — 39 installations: 1 aerial tramway, 3 gondolas, 18 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 10 magic carpets, 1 funicular or similar

23 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1953, newest 2024

4,090Biggest lift, people per hour — Tommeuses (detachable chairlift, 2002)

69 kmTotal length of lifts — 63 lifts mapped

7,965 haSki area boundary (OSM)

1,919Inhabitants — Tignes (INSEE 73296)

Measured 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 Tignes only (“TIGNES”), magic carpets included.

The lifts

39 lifts , carrying 65,386 people an hour in total , 23 years old on average (from 1953 to 2024).

Type (as registered, in French)	Count	Capacity (people/h)
Téléphériques	1	1,000
Télécabines	3	8,700
Télésièges	18	42,256
Téléskis	6	3,230
Tapis roulants	10	6,600
Funiculaires et autres	1	3,600

Lift by lift

The 20 lifts whose capacity the register publishes, largest first.

Lift	Type	Capacity	Length	Vertical	Year	Manufacturer
TOMMEUSES	Télésiège débrayable	4,090	1716 m	457 m	2002	DOPPELMAYR
PALAFOUR	Télésiège débrayable	3,600	1319 m	471 m	2006	DOPPELMAYR
TICHOTS	Télésiège débrayable	3,600	1208 m	361 m	2005	DOPPELMAYR
BOLLIN	Télésiège débrayable	3,600	570 m	107 m	1997	DOPPELMAYR
GRANDE MOTTE	Funiculaire	3,600	3491 m	921 m	1989	VON ROLL
TOVIERE	Télécabine	3,300	1782 m	600 m	2013	DOPPELMAYR
BOISSES	Télécabine	3,000	1161 m	410 m	2010	DOPPELMAYR
GRATTALU	Télésiège débrayable	3,000	1387 m	320 m	2004	DOPPELMAYR
BREVIERES	Télécabine	2,400	896 m	209 m	2018	POMAGALSKI
TUFS	Télésiège débrayable	2,400	1599 m	562 m	2008	DOPPELMAYR
AIGUILLE PERCEE	Télésiège	2,400	1082 m	302 m	2005	SKIRAIL
GRAND HUIT	Télésiège	2,400	853 m	216 m	1997	SKIRAIL
LANCHES	Télésiège débrayable	2,140	2555 m	745 m	1992	DOPPELMAYR
ALMES	Télésiège	2,100	573 m	183 m	2016	G.M.M.
VANOISE	Télésiège débrayable	2,000	1186 m	309 m	2008	DOPPELMAYR
MERLES	Télésiège débrayable	1,936	1314 m	286 m	2004	DOPPELMAYR
FRESSE	Télésiège débrayable	1,800	1886 m	373 m	1997	DOPPELMAYR
CHAUDANNES	Télésiège débrayable	1,500	1191 m	388 m	1998	DOPPELMAYR
PAQUIS	Télésiège débrayable	1,500	1610 m	444 m	1998	DOPPELMAYR
ROSSET	Télésiège	1,490	265 m	54 m	2015	INGELO

French national lift register (STRMTG / CAIRN database) — listed as “TIGNES” · open the database. Safety register: it also counts lifts that do not run every day.

Official piste map

Open the piste map (PDF, 9.4 MB) ↗

Published by Tignes Tourisme · file dated 22 October 2025 · link checked on 12 September 2026 · official page

Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.

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