Val Claret
Tignes Val Claret is the highest of the five villages that make up the Tignes Ski resort, sitting at 2,100 metres. It is the resort's newest village, built mainly in the 1960s as demand grew for skiing in the resort of Tignes.

A sector of Tignes
The Tignes resort page →Val Claret is one of the ski villages of Tignes, and shares its ski area (39 lifts). The area, the lift passes, the piste map, the off-piste routes and the SkiRadar ratings are described once, on the Tignes page — this page keeps what belongs to Val Claret: its own altitude, its webcams, where to stay in the village, how to get there and its ski school.
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 →Open pistes and lifts will appear here during the season, as published by the resort. Out of season we show nothing rather than a misleading zero.
Right now at the LE CHEVRIL-NIVOSE station (2,559 m)
Source: Météo-France, LE CHEVRIL-NIVOSE weather station, 6.5 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 129 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 24 winters at the Météo-France “LE CHEVRIL-NIVOSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 24 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 2,110 m · top 2,855 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.
Staying and hiring gear in Val Claret
The partners covering this resort, shown side by side, and the shop to kit out before you leave. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.
Collective accommodation
8,802 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 25 hotels · 1,007 rooms (4 × 5★, 5 × 4★, 7 × 3★, 3 × 2★, 1 × 1★)
- 3 holiday villages and family centres · 811 bed spaces
- 21 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 7,661 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 330 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 97 pitches
Commune: Tignes · 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 Val Claret
Without skis on — 2 km of snowshoe and walking trails
Swimming pool
- Espace Plage - La piscine · Val-d'Isère · 6 km away
Paragliding
- Val d'Isère Parapente · Val-d'Isère · 7.9 km away
Museum
- Musée Val Histoire · Val-d'Isère · 6 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma de Tignes · OpenStreetMap
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 Tignes Val Claret
100 instructors
🇬🇧 91 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Tignes Information · BP 51, 73320 · 04.79.40.04.40 · information@tignes.net (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- FPA4-S83-AURA-Hiver2025-FH-SAVOIE VF (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 Tignes Information and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Getting to Val Claret
From Paris: 7 hr 53 (706 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 2 hr 06 · 137 km
- From Annecy: 2 hr 21 · 131 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 22 · 167 km
- From Genève: 3 hr 03 · 177 km · avoids Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard, closed in winter
- From Lyon: 3 hr 16 · 236 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 3 hr 26 · 259 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 50 · 284 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 08 · 437 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 09 · 401 km
- From Besançon: 5 hr 23 · 350 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 33 · 464 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 38 · 473 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 52 · 499 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 54 · 612 km
- From Nice: 7 hr 16 · 630 km · via Bourg-Saint-Maurice station
- From Nancy: 7 hr 16 · 648 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 50 · 698 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 53 · 706 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 07 · 791 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 45 · 888 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Bourg-Saint-Maurice station
regional station · then 40 min drive (32 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 2 hr 04 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 2 hr 17 by road · 145 km
- Genève (GVA): 3 hr 17 by road · 182 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Val Claret as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
6 charging stations within 2 km
18 charging points · up to 50 kW
- Régie électrique de Tignes · RAIDEN · 3 points · 50 kW · 0.1 km
- Tignespace · RAIDEN · 2 points · 44 kW · 1.4 km
- 441 Rue des Almes · QOVOLTIS · 4 points · 22 kW · 1.8 km
- Rue des Almes · QOVOLTIS · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.9 km
- Rue des Almes · QOVOLTIS · 3 points · 22 kW · 1.9 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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
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