Val Thorens
Off season · opens 21 November 20262,299 mVillage altitude
3,200 mTop of the ski area
150 kmAlpine pistes · 600 km across Les 3 Vallées
28Ski lifts
€84.20Adult day pass · Les 3 Vallées · 2026-2027
Val Thorens is a ski town in the Tarentaise Valley in the French Alps at an altitude of 2,300 m (7,500 ft). It is located in the commune of Les Belleville in the Savoie department. The resort forms part of the Les Trois Vallées ski area which, with over 600 km of slopes, is one of the largest linked ski areas in the world.
Live webcams
All webcams (10) →Funitel ThorensSkaping
StationSkaping
La MaisonSkaping
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Official players of the resort, live image. 6 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 21 November 2026 and close on 2 May 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the LA MASSE station (2,800 m)
Source: Météo-France, LA MASSE weather station, 5.6 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from early December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 131 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 526 cm of fresh snow, measured over 17 winters at the Météo-France “Orelle” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 17 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 2,299 m · top 3,200 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.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 315 French resorts we cover — 5 stars means “among the best in France on this point”, not “perfect”. Nobody types these in.
- SnowCan you count on the snow?4.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 3,200 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,800 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 131 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 99%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 150 km · Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 600 km · Lifts: 28
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?2.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €84.20 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.14/km · Adult 6-day pass: €421 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?4 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 72% · Magic carpets: 7 · Sledging runs: 5 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 01 · Nearest railway station: 40 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 47
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?4.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 12 · Nightclubs: 2 · Restaurants: 49 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 16,730 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?4.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 2 · 4-star hotels: 3 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 65% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 1 · Adult day pass: €84.20 — index: what the map and the listings publish
“Atmosphere” and “Luxury” are indexes: they count what OpenStreetMap and the event listings publish within 2.5 km (bars, nightclubs, rated hotels, spas, upcoming events), not what you experience there. A zero means “nothing mapped”, not “nothing there”. Sources per criterion: snow (altitudes declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), STRMTG register, OpenStreetMap; snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (figures declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), national lift register (STRMTG), OpenStreetMap) ; value (the resort’s official price list) ; families and beginners (OpenStreetMap pistes, price list, ESF ski school, Famille Plus label, OpenStreetMap leisure) ; access (OSRM drive times from 20 cities, SNCF stations, GTFS shuttles, airports) ; atmosphere and après-ski (bars, nightclubs and restaurants within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap), upcoming events (OpenAgenda), collective tourist beds (INSEE)) ; luxury and comfort (rated hotels within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap) and by category across the commune (INSEE), spas and boutiques (OpenStreetMap), day pass price).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€421 6 days
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Les 3 Vallées pass, covering the whole linked area, read on the list of Les Menuires. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 1,400 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 5 named trails — 39 km of marked loops (21 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 2.9 km from the resort
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone, 2.1 km from the resort — VT Park
Ski-area figures — village, bottom: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); top, km of pistes, km of the linked area: Resort’s official website (read by SkiRadar) (23 Sept); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20267 kmLongest piste — Biolley (blue), 334 m of vertical
1,052 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,489 → 1,437 m, 4 km
3,186 mHighest lift top — Cime Caron (aerial tramway), national lift register
51,709Total lift capacity, people per hour — 28 installations: 1 aerial tramway, 7 gondolas, 10 chairlifts, 3 drag lifts, 7 magic carpets
18 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1982, newest 2022
4,000Biggest lift, people per hour — Cascades (detachable chairlift, 1995)
106 kmTotal length of lifts — 75 lifts mapped
19,776 haSki area boundary (OSM)
3,498Inhabitants — Les Belleville (INSEE 73257)
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 Val Thorens only (“VAL THORENS”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Val Thorens
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Collective accommodation
16,730 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 29 hotels · 1,512 rooms (6 × 5★, 10 × 4★, 8 × 3★, 1 × 2★, 2 × 1★)
- 3 holiday villages and family centres · 1,862 bed spaces
- 41 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 14,488 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 380 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 56 pitches
Commune: Les Belleville · 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
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
Ski hire
Skiset UK
Skiset’s UK site: ski hire in the resort shops, booked in English, paid in pounds.
Gear & equipment
Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
Beyond skiing at Val Thorens
Without skis on — 18 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 5 sledging runs
Swimming pool
- La Bulle des Bruyères - Piscine Aqualudique · Les Belleville · 3.4 km away
Paragliding
- A Parapente · Les Allues · 9.6 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma du Lac Blanc · Les Belleville · 0.3 km away
- Cinéma Méribel-Mottaret · Les Allues · 8.3 km away
Bowling
- in the resort · 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 Val Thorens
299 instructors
🇬🇧 218 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme de Val Thorens · Maison de Val Thorens, 818 Grande Rue, 73440 · 0479000808 · valtho@valthorens.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- Navette station gratuite Val Thorens (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 Office de Tourisme de Val Thorens and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 10 Marked off-piste itineraries · 15 km
2 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Pylones · Arolles · Léo Lacroix · Cascades · Itinéraire du Mont Vallon · Le Lac de Lou par la Masse
Itineraries surveyed on OpenStreetMap within a 4 km radius (7 September 2026): “marked” means an itinerary exists on the map, not that it is open or safe on the day.
Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Val Thorens — up to 1,800 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cime de Caron · Versant N | n/a · PD | 1,093 m | 2,102 → 3,195 m | N | 1.8 km |
| Pointe du Borgne · Versant N | 3.2 · AD | 728 m | 2,350 → 3,078 m | W | 1.8 km |
| Roc des Saints Pères · Couloir S | n/a · AD+ | 1,200 m | 2,300 → 3,470 m | S | 1.9 km |
| Roc des Saints Pères · Couloir NE | 4.3 · E2 · D+ | 1,200 m | 2,300 → 3,470 m | NE | 1.9 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
Not a piste. Neither marked, nor patrolled, nor secured: transceiver, shovel, probe, the day’s avalanche bulletin and, better still, a guide. Ski grade (1.1–5.6) = steepness and commitment; exposure (E1–E4) = consequence of a fall.
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 October 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Official piste map
Open the piste map (PDF, 633 KB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
Pistes coloured by level, lifts as lines. The resort’s official map is the reference in season.
Base map © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · pistes © OpenSnowMap (CC-BY-SA) · data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Getting to Val Thorens
From Paris: 7 hr 23 (683 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 36 · 114 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 51 · 107 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 52 · 143 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 33 · 154 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 46 · 212 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 56 · 236 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 20 · 261 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 38 · 413 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 39 · 378 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 53 · 326 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 02 · 440 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 08 · 449 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 24 · 588 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 29 · 527 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 45 · 624 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 48 · 543 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 20 · 674 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 23 · 683 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 37 · 767 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 15 · 864 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station
regional station · then 40 min drive (38 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 34 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): 1 hr 47 by road · 121 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 25 by road · 189 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Val Thorens as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 October 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.
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).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Val Thorens?
Val Thorens sits at 2,299 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 3,200 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Val Thorens have?
Val Thorens has 150 km of slopes (600 km across Les 3 Vallées), 28 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Val Thorens?
The longest piste is Biolley: 7 km (blue run), for 334 m of vertical. Measured on the OpenStreetMap map, segments of the same name and level joined end to end, altitudes from the IGN RGE ALTI terrain model — a resort sometimes advertises a longer run by chaining several pistes.
How high do the lifts go in Val Thorens?
The highest lift, Cime Caron (aerial tramway), tops out at 3,186 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Val Thorens have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 28 installations at Val Thorens (1 aerial tramway, 7 gondolas, 10 chairlifts, 3 drag lifts, 7 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 51,709 people per hour, of which 4,000 for Cascades alone. The fleet spans 1982 to 2022, an average age of 18 years. This count covers the resort itself, magic carpets included, not the whole linked ski area — a resort brochure often announces a different number. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How much is a lift pass in Val Thorens?
The adult day pass for the Les 3 Vallées linked area costs €84.20 and the 6-day pass €421 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list of Les Menuires).
How do I get to Val Thorens?
By road, Val Thorens is 1 hr 36 from Chambéry (114 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains, 40 min by road from the resort. No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables. The nearest airport is Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 47 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Val Thorens?
7 hr 23 for 683 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
When does Val Thorens open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 21 November 2026 and closes on 2 May 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Val Thorens?
Good snow from early December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 131 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 526 cm of fresh snow, measured over 17 winters at the Météo-France “Orelle” station. This verdict rests on 17 winters of Météo-France measurements (1998-2023); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Val Thorens good for beginners and families?
The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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