Ski resort

Montgenèvre (Via Lattea), France

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The snow-covered village of Montgenèvre on the border pass at sunrise, a steep peak above the buildings and slopes behind — photo Station de Montgenèvre · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Pistes 179 km blue 62%, red 27% Lifts 25 23 named on the list Snowfall

Lift pass 49 EUR per person per day www.vialattea.it, checked 2026-08-13 Places to stay 4 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 115 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

blue 111.2 km
red 48.4 km
black 19.4 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

49 EUR per person per day

A 6-day pass costs 295 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 2,575 m above sea level.

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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 2,073 m above sea level.

112 Nov

145 Dec

115 Jan

86 Feb

128 Mar

93 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
day	1°	-3°	-4°	-1°	1°	4°
night	-5°	-8°	-10°	-7°	-7°	-3°

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.

Alp J-bar
Alpet drag lift
Brousset chairlift
Chalmettes mixed lift
Chalvet chairlift
Clot drag lift
Col J-bar
Crête chairlift
Durance J-bar
Gondrans chairlift
Jardin d'Enfants magic carpet
Montquitaine chairlift
Observatoire chairlift
Obélisque drag lift
Piou Piou magic carpet
Prarial chairlift
Querelay J-bar
Rocher Rouge chairlift
Rocher de l'Aigle gondola
TCD 6 Chalvet gondola
TMX Serre Thibaud mixed lift
Tremplin chairlift
Trois Fourneoux 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.

4 within 300 m
16 within 1 km
50 places in the valley

The closest one stands 115 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

A winter panorama of the Montgenèvre slopes with piste and lift lines, snow-covered flanks under cloud — photo patano · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Montgenèvre (Via Lattea) worth it?

Montgenèvre stands on a pass right on the France–Italy border and is part of the Via Lattea (the "Milky Way") — a large cross-border area that links the French side to the Italian resorts of Sestriere and Sauze d'Oulx. It is one of the oldest ski spots in France; people skied here before skiing was fashionable.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap the Montgenèvre side alone comes to about 91 km of pistes, inside a far larger Via Lattea whole. The balance leans to easy runs; it is a comfortable starting point for families, from which you can ride deeper into the domain on the Italian side.

The pass lies high and on the dry, sunny side of the Alps, so days here are often clear, and the natural snow is backed by extensive snowmaking. 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 whole international Via Lattea area: €294.50 from the resort's rate list (checked 13 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland: about 1,382 km from Wrocław, 1,468 from Katowice, 1,543 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.

Claviere Italy 3 km away · 102 km of piste
Sansicario Italy 9 km away · 69 km of piste
Serre Chevalier France 13 km away · 335 km of piste
Sestriere Italy 14 km away · 124 km of piste
Bardonecchia Italy 14 km away · 41 km of piste
Sauze D'Oulx Italy 14 km away · 146 km of piste
Arvieux France 16 km away · 10 km of piste
Bardonecchia - Jafferau Italy 18 km away · 30 km of piste

Compare Montgenèvre (Via Lattea) with its neighbours: Montgenèvre (Via Lattea) vs Serre Chevalier · Montgenèvre (Via Lattea) vs Sestriere (Via Lattea) · Montgenèvre (Via Lattea) vs Risoul-Vars (Forêt Blanche) · Montgenèvre (Via Lattea) vs Val Cenis

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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.