Valloire
Off season · opens 12 December 20261,430 mVillage altitude
2,700 mTop of the ski area
160 kmLinked pistes · Galibier-Thabor
18Ski lifts
€52.30Adult day pass · Galibier-Thabor
Valloire is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie). The village sits at 1,430 m and the ski area rises to 2,700 m, a skiable vertical of 1,270 m.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Crey du QuartSkaping
Poingt RavierSkaping
▶ Watch at the operator ↗
Livele lecteur de l’opérateur refuse d’être intégré : la caméra s’ouvre chez lui
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 25 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 12 December 2026. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the LES ROCHILLES-NIVOSE station (2,444 m)
Source: Météo-France, LES ROCHILLES-NIVOSE weather station, 9.4 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-January to late February. 88 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 371 cm of fresh snow, measured over 32 winters at the Météo-France “ST-SORLIN D'ARVES” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 32 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,430 m · top 2,700 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?3.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,700 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,430 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 88 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 82%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 160 km · Lifts: 18
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €52.30 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.33/km · Adult 6-day pass: €265 · Price read at a neighbouring resort of the same area
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 53% · Magic carpets: 4 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 3 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 39 · Nearest railway station: 19 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 1 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 28
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 8 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 41 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 3,019 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · Spas and saunas: 2 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €52.30 — 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
All prices (child, family, season) →€265 6 days
Price declared by the resort to ANMSM (the French ski resorts’ mayors association) — not the official price list, which prevails. Galibier-Thabor pass, covering the whole linked area. Season not stated by the resort. ANMSM ↗
- Skiable vertical
- 1,270 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 4 named trails — 16 km of marked loops (5.5 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 2.3 km from the resort
- Snowpark
- Yes
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of the linked area: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (25 Sept); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) . In a linked ski area the map cannot tell where the resort ends: its own km stay “n/a” until the resort declares them.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 20267 kmLongest piste — Selles (blue), 673 m of vertical
849 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,493 → 1,643 m, 5 km
2,530 mHighest lift top — Brive 2 (detachable chairlift), national lift register
24,259Total lift capacity, people per hour — 18 installations: 1 gondola, 7 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 4 magic carpets
22 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1971, newest 2019
3,000Biggest lift, people per hour — Brive 2 (detachable chairlift, 2003)
30 kmTotal length of lifts — 32 lifts mapped
3,827 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,064Inhabitants — Valloire (INSEE 73306)
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 Valloire only (“VALLOIRE”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Valloire
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Collective accommodation
3,019 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 11 hotels · 249 rooms (4 × 3★, 6 × 2★, 1 × 1★)
- 4 holiday villages and family centres · 507 bed spaces
- 5 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 2,262 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 250 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 78 pitches
Commune: Valloire · 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
Vacances Bleues
Club hotels and holiday villages, often full board.
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
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 Valloire
Without skis on — 17 km of snowshoe and walking trails
Ice rink
- Patinoire Philippe Candeloro · OpenStreetMap
Swimming pool
- Piscine de Valloire · Valloire · 0.4 km away
- Espace Aquatique et Piscine · Montricher-Albanne · 7.4 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Les Sens des Cimes · OpenStreetMap
Dog sledding
- MUSHING SPIRIT · Valloire · 0.3 km away
Paragliding
- Lenvair Parapente · Valloire · 2.9 km away
- Envergure - Parapente · Valmeinier · 5.2 km away
- Parapente Air Line - Activités · Albiez-Montrond · 9.2 km away
Museum
- Espace Alu · Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne · 6.9 km away
- Ecomusée "Montricher autrefois" · Montricher-Albanne · 8 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma · Valloire · 0.3 km away
- Cinéma de Valmeinier · Valmeinier · 5.1 km away
- Cinéma · Montricher-Albanne · 7.3 km away
- Cinéma Casse-Massion · Albiez-Montrond · 9 km away
Bowling
- Le Mafayo · 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 Valloire
105 instructors
🇬🇧 52 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 Valloire · 210 Rue des Grandes Alpes, 73450 · 04 79 59 03 96 · info@valloire.fr (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- Arrêtsbus (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 Valloire and distributed by ANMSM · read on 25 September
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 3 Marked off-piste itineraries · 4 km
4 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Cotérieux · Chamois
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 Valloire — up to 1,369 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crey du Meigno · Versant SE | n/a · PD | 1,100 m | 1,450 → 2,546 m | SE | 2 km |
| Grande Chible · Versant SE - depuis Valloire | 3.3 · E2 · AD | 1,300 m | 1,644 → 2,932 m | SE | 2.1 km |
| Crey Rond · Versant SE | n/a · PD- | 1,170 m | 1,500 → 2,667 m | SE | 2.6 km |
| Crey Rond · par les Balais | n/a · PD | 1,110 m | 1,550 → 2,667 m | SE | 2.6 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 September 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
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 Valloire
From Paris: 7 hr 04 (673 km) by road.
By road
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 17 · 104 km
- From Grenoble: 1 hr 33 · 133 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 46 · 151 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 16 · 189 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 27 · 202 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 2 hr 37 · 226 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 01 · 251 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 19 · 403 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 20 · 371 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 28 · 313 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 35 · 361 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 44 · 430 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 06 · 410 km · avoids Col du Galibier, closed in winter
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 05 · 578 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 26 · 614 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 31 · 578 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 01 · 664 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 04 · 673 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 18 · 758 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 56 · 854 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Michel - Valloire station
regional station · then 19 min drive (17 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 hr 15 by road.
- From Saint-Michel - Valloire station (stop “College P.Mougin”): line S40 — ST-MICHEL DE MAURIENNE ↔ VALLOIRE (REGION - cars Région Savoie), 55 min to the “Les Granges” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays · first 12:10, last 18:15 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.
By plane
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 28 by road · 111 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 06 by road · 179 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
4 charging points · up to 24 kW
- NNML -VALLOIRE - Rue des grandes Alpes · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0 km
- Valloire-rue du Praz · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 24 kW · 0.3 km
Freely accessible charge points read from the French national EV charging database (data.gouv.fr ↗, operators’ own declarations), checked on 9 September 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.
The area offers 160 km of alpine pistes across Galibier-Thabor, 18 ski lifts, plus a snowpark.
Valloire belongs to the linked Galibier-Thabor area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 7 km (Selles) and the highest lift tops out at 2,738 m.
The resort holds the Famille Plus and Flocon Vert and Station classée de tourisme labels.
Access: 1 h 17 by road from Chambéry and 19 min from Saint-Michel - Valloire railway station.
6 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Valloire?
Valloire sits at 1,430 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,700 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Valloire have?
From Valloire you can ski 160 km of slopes across Galibier-Thabor, 18 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Valloire?
The longest piste is Selles: 7 km (blue run), for 673 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 Valloire?
The highest lift, Brive 2 (detachable chairlift), tops out at 2,530 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Valloire have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 18 installations at Valloire (1 gondola, 7 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 4 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 24,259 people per hour, of which 3,000 for Brive 2 alone. The fleet spans 1971 to 2019, an average age of 22 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 Valloire?
The adult day pass for the Galibier-Thabor linked area costs €52.30 and the 6-day pass €265 (season not stated by the resort, declared by the resort to ANMSM (the French ski resorts’ mayors association)).
How do I get to Valloire?
By road, Valloire is 1 hr 17 from Chambéry (104 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Michel - Valloire, 19 min by road from the resort. From Saint-Michel - Valloire station, line S40 — ST-MICHEL DE MAURIENNE ↔ VALLOIRE (REGION - cars Région Savoie) reaches the “Les Granges” stop in 55 min, 1 departure a day on weekdays. The nearest airport is Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 28 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Valloire?
7 hr 04 for 673 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 Valloire open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 12 December 2026 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Valloire?
Good snow from mid-January to late February. 88 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 371 cm of fresh snow, measured over 32 winters at the Météo-France “ST-SORLIN D'ARVES” station. This verdict rests on 32 winters of Météo-France measurements (1992-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Valloire good for beginners and families?
The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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