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.
Val Thorens is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Les Belleville. The village sits at 2,299 m and the ski area rises to 3,200 m, a skiable vertical of 1,400 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 · 378 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.
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
- 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 October 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
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 Thorens
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Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme de Val Thorens and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October