15 resorts with real-time weather data
France
France has 247 ski resorts by skiresort.com's count. Find Powder carries live snow reports for 15 of them, mapped here with the main cities and the airports that serve them. Zoom in to see every name, or jump straight to a region.
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The airports with scheduled flights closest to the France resorts we cover, nearest first. Several of the best gateways are across the border. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance — mountain roads can easily double them.
32 mi to Avoriaz, with 15 of the resorts on this map within 93 mi.
37 mi to Val d'Isère, with 15 of the resorts on this map within 93 mi.
65 mi to Alpe d'Huez, with 14 of the resorts on this map within 93 mi.
85 mi to Val d'Isère, with 3 of the resorts on this map within 93 mi.
95 mi to Serre Chevalier.
104 mi to Avoriaz.
111 mi to Val d'Isère.
116 mi to Val d'Isère.
Lyon — 75 mi from the nearest resort · Grenoble — 19 mi from the nearest resort · Paris (capital) — 277 mi from the nearest resort · Marseille — 124 mi from the nearest resort · Nice — 93 mi from the nearest resort · Chambéry — 27 mi from the nearest resort · Annecy — 22 mi from the nearest resort · Saint-Étienne — 85 mi from the nearest resort · Besançon — 82 mi from the nearest resort · Gap — 32 mi from the nearest resort
Map shapes: Natural Earth. Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Cities: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Distances are straight-line from the airport or city to the nearest resort on this page.
France sold 54.8 million ski days in 2024/25, second in the world behind the USA and the most in Europe. It also hosted the competition that became the first Winter Olympics.
France has 247 ski resorts by skiresort.com's count, with 6,103 mi of slopes served by 3,003 lifts. In the 2024/25 season they recorded 54.8 million skier visits. Counts differ between sources, because each draws the line between a ski resort and a village tow in a different place.
Les 3 Vallées – Val Thorens/Les Menuires/Méribel/Courchevel
Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix)
Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix)
Chamonix held its competitions in January and February 1924 as an "International Winter Sports Week", with athletes from 16 nations. The IOC later granted them, retrospectively, the status of the first Winter Olympics. Alpine skiing was not on the programme.
Courchevel, Méribel, Brides-les-Bains, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, Les Menuires, Val Thorens and Orelle are all connected on skis, around 600 km of piste on a single pass.
Figures describe France as a whole, not just the resorts we track. Skier visits are shown only where a national industry body or two independent reports agree.
