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Flaine (Grand Massif), France

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A winter view of Flaine's modernist buildings in their bowl above the valley, slopes and forest around
photo Macabe5387 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Pistes 143 km blue 67%, red 26% Lifts 30 28 named on the list Snowfall
794 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass 63 EUR per person per day www.grand-massif.com, checked 2026-08-13 Places to stay 1 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 221 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 95.7 km
  • red 37.6 km
  • black 9.5 km

The split comes from OpenStreetMap. A run with no difficulty tag falls into none of the three bars, so they can add up to less than the resort total.

Piste map

Drawn by us from open data, with terrain shading. Interactive: zoom, pan and follow the runs right here.

Base map: OpenFreeMap on data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), terrain relief: Mapterhorn
This is a geographic map, not the painted panorama a resort publishes: the runs are where they really are, but the mountain is not drawn as a bird’s-eye view.

Lift pass

63 EUR per person per day

A 6-day pass costs 378 EUR.

Resort price list · Price list checked on 2026-08-13.

How much snow is forecast

No snowfall is forecast for the days ahead — computed for 2,465 m above sea level.

0 Su
0 Mo
0 Tu
0 We
0 Th
0 Fr
0 Sa
0 Su

This is a weather-model forecast, not a measurement taken on the mountain: it says how much snow is expected to fall. Forecast: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0. Data fetched 15 August, 05:26.

See where most snow is coming

When to go

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at 1,605 m above sea level.

104 Nov
204 Dec
169 Jan
124 Feb
127 Mar
66 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr
day 4° -1° -2° 2° 4° 7°
night -4° -7° -9° -6° -5° -2°

This is snowfall, not snow depth on the slope: it says how much usually falls in a given month, not how much lies there. The measuring point sits close to the valley floor, so higher up it snows more.

Source: ERA5-Land (ECMWF), Copernicus Climate Data Store. Averaged over 2017–2026.

School holidays and slope crowds

Which weeks of winter 2026/2027 fill these slopes with school-holiday traffic — computed from the official school calendars of the countries that ski here most. A darker week means more markets on holiday at once.

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr

quiet moderate holiday peak

Holiday dates from official sources: DE, ES, FR, GB, NL. Dates for ES, GB are approximate — they are set locally by region, school or council.

Lifts

Names and types from OpenStreetMap. Unnamed lifts are left out of this list, so it can be shorter than the count at the top of the page.

  • Aujon platter lift
  • Aup de Véran gondola
  • Ballacha platter lift
  • Bissac magic carpet
  • Bois platter lift
  • Diamant Noir chairlift
  • Désert Blanc chairlift
  • Forêt platter lift
  • Front de Neige magic carpet
  • Gers platter lift
  • Grand Grenier platter lift
  • Grand Vans chairlift
  • Grandes Platières gondola
  • Gérats chairlift
  • Kédeuze gondola
  • Lac chairlift
  • Lapiaz platter lift
  • Lindars Nord chairlift
  • Michalet magic carpet
  • Molliets magic carpet
  • Plein Soleil drag lift
  • Pré magic carpet
  • Stade platter lift
  • Télébenne de Flaine Supérieur gondola
  • Tête des Saix chairlift
  • Tête des Verds chairlift
  • Vernant chairlift
  • Véret platter lift

Places to stay by the lift

Distance is measured in a straight line to the base station of the nearest lift. No booking site publishes that number — it comes from matching accommodation against lift geometry.

  • 1 within 300 m
  • 10 within 1 km
  • 58 places in the valley

The closest one stands 221 m from a lift.

Work out the cost of the triptest version

The planner splits travel, lodging and lift passes by the number of people. Room prices are fetched for the dates you give.

work in progress

Photos

The Flaine resort on its slope in winter, pistes and lifts dropping toward the valley
photo DimiTalen · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Flaine (Grand Massif) worth it?

Flaine did not grow from a mountain village -- it was designed in the 1960s by Marcel Breuer, an architect of the Bauhaus school, and the whole place stands in raw concrete to a single modernist plan. To some it is the ugliest resort in the Alps; to others a work of listed architecture. It sits in a high, north-facing bowl in the Grand Massif above Sallanches.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap the Flaine side alone comes to about 103 km of pistes, inside the larger Grand Massif that links it to Samoëns, Morillon, Les Carroz and Sixt. The balance is easy and intermediate; this is terrain where beginners and mid-level skiers get the most out of it, while stronger skiers cross to the neighbouring valleys.

The bowl's north aspect and its height give Flaine a reputation for reliable snow -- the runs can still be skiable when lower resorts are going bare. The season usually runs from December to April.

The price we give is a six-day adult ticket for the whole Grand Massif -- €378 from the 2026/27 rate list (checked 13 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland is, per OpenStreetMap, about 1,325 km from Wrocław, 1,489 from Katowice and 1,564 from Kraków.

Resorts nearby

Straight-line distance, from the OpenStreetMap roster — the road through the valley is usually longer. The second figure is piste length.

  • Villages France 5 km away · 236 km of piste
  • Passy - Plaine Joux France 7 km away · 10 km of piste
  • Cordon France 13 km away · 10 km of piste
  • Les Houches (Chamonix) France 14 km away · 37 km of piste
  • Brévent/Flégère (Chamonix) France 14 km away · 56 km of piste
  • Mont Saxonnex France 16 km away · 7 km of piste
  • Les Portes du Mont-Blanc France 16 km away · 85 km of piste
  • La Poya (Chamonix) France 17 km away · 5 km of piste

Compare Flaine (Grand Massif) with its neighbours: Flaine (Grand Massif) vs Chamonix-Mont-Blanc · Flaine (Grand Massif) vs Megève – Saint-Gervais · Flaine (Grand Massif) vs Les Gets – Morzine (Portes du Soleil) · Flaine (Grand Massif) vs La Clusaz

Every resort on the world map

Where this comes from

Piste and lift geometry and their names: OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL licence.

Terrain shading computed from public elevation data.