Getting to Val Thorens
Val Thorens is 1 h 36 by road from Chambéry (114 km), 7 h 23 from Paris, 40 min from Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Val Thorens is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Les Belleville. The village sits at 2,300 m and the ski area rises to 3,001 m, a skiable vertical of 1,283 m.
Getting to Val Thorens
By road
- From Chambéry : 1 h 36 · 114 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 51 · 107 km
- From Grenoble : 1 h 52 · 143 km
- From Genève : 2 h 33 · 154 km
- From Lyon : 2 h 46 · 212 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 2 h 56 · 236 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 20 · 261 km
- From Dijon : 4 h 38 · 413 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 39 · 381 km
- From Besançon : 4 h 53 · 326 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 02 · 440 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 08 · 449 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 24 · 588 km
- From Nice : 6 h 29 · 527 km
- From Nancy : 6 h 45 · 624 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 48 · 543 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 20 · 674 km
- From Paris : 7 h 23 · 683 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 37 · 767 km
- From Pau : 9 h 15 · 864 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station
regional station · then 40 min by road (38 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 34 by road.
- From Moûtiers - Salins - Brides-les-Bains station (stop « Gare Routiere ») : S63 — MOUTIERS ↔ LES MENUIRES ↔ VAL THORENS (REGION - cars Région Savoie), 1 h 13 to the “Val Thorens - UCPA” stop — 3 departures a day on weekdays · first 16:45, last 18:45 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 15 avril 2027, Cars Région Savoie (Altibus) · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 47 by road · 121 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 2 h 25 by road · 189 km
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By electric car
No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 September 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
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 Office de Tourisme de Val Thorens and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September