How to get to Chamonix



By plane, from

Geneva International Airport - 88 km


Lyon-Saint Exupéry International Airport - 220 km


Haute-Savoie Mont Blanc Airport - 90 km


Grenoble Airport - 140 km

Plane + Coach

regular international bus line between Geneva and Chamonix.


SAT Company

Plane + Car

Mountain drop-offs


Transfers from Geneva and Grenoble airports


Chamonix Taxi Airport


Transfers from Geneva, Grenoble, Annecy, Lyon, Turin...


Chamonix First


Transfers from Geneva and Lyon airports

Plane + Train

TGV / TER from Lyon, Grenoble, Chambéry, Annecy to St Gervais-les-bains-le Fayet.


Then regular connection St Gervais-les-bains-le Fayet > Chamonix (20 Km)

By car

From France: via the Autoroute Blanche A40


From Switzerland: freeway to Martigny, then Col de la Forclaz then Col des Montets


From Italy: via the Mont Blanc tunnel

By train

TER / TGV links from Grenoble, Chambéry, Lyon, Annecy...

Direction St-Germain-Le-Fayet (20 km from Chamonix)

Regular links between St-Germain-Le-Fayet and Chamonix center (closest stop to Les Chalets)


The Mont Blanc Express

Network that serves all the villages, from St Gervais-les-bains-le Fayet to Martigny (Switzerland), passing by Servoz, Les Houches, Chamonix, Argentière and Vallorcine.

Some distances



Swiss border : ~ 20 km

Italian border : ~ 20 km

Sallanches : 27 km

Megève : 33 km

La Roche-sur-Foron : 60 km

Le Grand-Bornan : 77 km

Geneva : 80 km

Annecy : 100 km

Chambéry : 140 km

Turin : 170 km

Grenoble : 200 km

Lyon : 220 km

Milan : 240 km

Zürich : 290 km

Nice : 450 km

Paris : 610 km

Bordeaux : 770 km

London : 1000 km

The ski area 'Les Planards



ideal for learning to ski with the whole family:


-2 green runs, 1 blue run and 1 red run, with easy lifts and a conveyor belt for the kindergarten

- A 1300 meter summer toboggan run, open all year round

- A children's playground

- A ski rental store

- A high altitude restaurant

- An ESF office to take ski and snowboard lessons