Getting to Val Cenis
Val Cenis is 1 h 39 by road from Chambéry (128 km), 7 h 26 from Paris, 28 min from Modane railway station.
Val Cenis is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Val-Cenis. The village sits at 1,300 m and the ski area rises to 2,800 m, a skiable vertical of 1,500 m.
Getting to Val Cenis
By road
- From Chambéry : 1 h 39 · 128 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 56 · 158 km
- From Annecy : 2 h 08 · 175 km
- From Genève : 2 h 38 · 213 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 49 · 227 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 2 h 59 · 250 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 23 · 275 km
- From Nice : 4 h 33 · 368 km
- From Dijon : 4 h 42 · 428 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 42 · 392 km
- From Besançon : 4 h 58 · 385 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 03 · 351 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 06 · 455 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 27 · 603 km
- From Nancy : 6 h 49 · 639 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 53 · 603 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 23 · 689 km
- From Paris : 7 h 26 · 697 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 41 · 782 km
- From Pau : 9 h 18 · 879 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Modane station
regional station · then 28 min by road (26 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 38 by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 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
- Turin-Caselle (TRN) : 1 h 35 by road · 106 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 50 by road · 136 km
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By electric car
4 charging locations within 2 km
8charging points · up to24 kW
- VAL CENIS - Rue du vieux moulin- Lanslevillard · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 0.7 km
- LANSLEVILLARD - Val Cenis, parking office tourisme · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 1.2 km
- VAL CENIS - Parking piscine- Lanslevillard · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 1.7 km
- Val CENIS-Parking Mairie · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 24 kW · 1.9 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 October 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 2 October 2026. Allow more in the snow.
Plan your stay in Val Cenis
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Resort data: declared by Haute Maurienne Vanoise Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October