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Megève – Saint-Gervais, France

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The Rochebrune ski front at Megève: skiers on the piste below timber buildings, a gondola over the slope
photo DimiTalen · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Altitude
1,465 mbase station 1,745 mtop station 280 mvertical drop
Pistes 154 km blue 46%, red 38% Lifts 56 54 named on the list Snowfall
884 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass 54 EUR per person per day forfait.megeve.com, checked 2026-08-13 Places to stay 1 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 93 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 71.2 km
  • red 59.0 km
  • black 24.0 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

54 EUR per person per day

A 6-day pass costs 325 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 1,745 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: Megève – Saint-Gervais

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

228 187 137 141 7 Dec – 20 Dec 11 Jan – 31 Jan
Dec Jan Feb Mar
day -1° -2° 1° 3°
night -7° -9° -7° -5°

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres. Below the axis: average day and night temperature.

The lifts usually run here from 12 Dec to 4 Apr, and that is the span of the chart. Dates published by the resort, checked 2026-08-15.

average snowfall, cm/month threshold: 70 % of the snowiest month

quiet moderate holiday peak too little snow or outside the holiday calendar snowy and quiet

The colours under the axis show school-holiday traffic per week of winter 2026/2027, from the holidays chapter — the curve is a long-term average, the traffic is this one season. A green band marks a quiet week in a month with at least 70 % of the snowiest month’s snowfall. This season: 7 Dec – 20 Dec, 11 Jan – 31 Jan.

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.

Full page on timing

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.

  • Alpette chairlift
  • Bettex platter lift
  • Bettex - Arbois gondola
  • Bois du Bettex magic carpet
  • Bosses platter lift
  • Caboche gondola
  • Cabochon drag lift
  • Chamois gondola
  • Chattrix chairlift
  • Chef-Lieu chairlift
  • Col drag lift
  • Communailles platter lift
  • Croix chairlift
  • Croix du Christ chairlift
  • Cry platter lift
  • Débutants platter lift
  • Freddy drag lift
  • Gouet platter lift
  • Grand Vorasset platter lift
  • Grands Champs chairlift
  • Idéal chairlift
  • Jardin chairlift
  • L'Alpin gondola
  • Lanchettes platter lift
  • Les Nants chairlift
  • Liaison platter lift
  • Mandarines drag lift
  • Marmottons magic carpet
  • Mont Joly chairlift
  • Mont Joux chairlift
  • Mont Joux III chairlift
  • Mont d'Arbois gondola
  • Monts Rosset chairlift
  • Moutely platter lift
  • Petit Bois platter lift
  • Petit Plane magic carpet
  • Petit Rochebrune chairlift
  • Petit Vorasset platter lift
  • Petite Fontaine chairlift
  • Pierre Plate chairlift
  • Plateau platter lift
  • Princesse gondola
  • Rocharbois cable car
  • Rochebrune cable car
  • Rochefort platter lift
  • Schuss magic carpet
  • Tapis Marmottons magic carpet
  • Tour platter lift
  • Vanay platter lift
  • Venaz platter lift
  • Village platter lift
  • École drag lift
  • Épaule chairlift
  • Étudiants 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
  • 11 within 1 km
  • 129 places in the valley

The closest one stands 93 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.

Photos

The snow-covered country around Megève with a view of the Mont Blanc massif from Le Christomet, white slopes in front
photo DimiTalen · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Megève – Saint-Gervais worth it?

Megève is one of the oldest and most elegant resorts in France — the Rothschild family developed it in the 1920s as a French answer to St. Moritz. Its signature to this day is not steepness but style: gentle, wooded slopes, a view of the Mont Blanc massif and a town with a cobbled square. Together with neighbouring Saint-Gervais it forms the Evasion Mont-Blanc area.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 202 km of pistes, weighted toward easy and intermediate. This is a big, calm area — ideal for clocking up kilometres and for learning rather than hunting hard runs; there is little that is steep.

Much of the skiing runs through forest and lies lower than at high glacier resorts, so snow depends more on weather and snowmaking here. The season usually runs from December to April; check exact elevations with the operator.

We give the ski pass as a six-day adult ticket for the Evasion Mont-Blanc area: €324.50 from the resort's rate list (checked 13 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland: about 1,331 km from Wrocław, 1,492 from Katowice, 1,568 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.

  • Les Contamines France 6 km away · 84 km of piste
  • Les Portes du Mont-Blanc France 7 km away · 85 km of piste
  • Les Houches (Chamonix) France 9 km away · 37 km of piste
  • Cordon France 9 km away · 10 km of piste
  • Espace Diamant (Les Saisies) France 11 km away · 222 km of piste
  • Passy - Plaine Joux France 14 km away · 10 km of piste
  • La Clusaz France 17 km away · 101 km of piste
  • Flaine France 17 km away · 143 km of piste

Compare Megève – Saint-Gervais with its neighbours: Megève – Saint-Gervais vs La Clusaz · Megève – Saint-Gervais vs Flaine (Grand Massif) · Megève – Saint-Gervais vs Chamonix-Mont-Blanc · Megève – Saint-Gervais vs Courmayeur

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Where this comes from

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

Terrain shading computed from public elevation data.