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Val Cenis, France

Haute-Maurienne, Sabaudia

The snowy Madeleine piste dropping to the Val Cenis village, the Ramasse chairlift and larches
photo Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Altitude
1,440 mbase station 2,800 mtop station 1,360 mvertical drop
Pistes 100 km blue 63%, red 31% Lifts 34 32 named on the list Snowfall
806 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass 50 EUR per person per day www.valcenis.com, checked 2026-08-14 Trip plannertest version

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 63.0 km
  • red 31.1 km
  • black 5.4 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

50 EUR per person per day

A 1-day pass costs 50 EUR.

Resort price list · Price list checked on 2026-08-14.

How much snow is forecast

No snowfall is forecast for the days ahead — computed for 2,800 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 2,257 m above sea level.

132 Nov
171 Dec
142 Jan
100 Feb
144 Mar
117 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr
day 0° -4° -5° -2° -1° 3°
night -6° -9° -10° -8° -7° -4°

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.

  • Arcelle chairlift
  • Arcellins chairlift
  • Buffa platter lift
  • Colomba chairlift
  • Essarts platter lift
  • Féma platter lift
  • Girarde chairlift
  • Lac platter lift
  • Madeleine platter lift
  • Marmotte magic carpet
  • Marmottons platter lift
  • Met chairlift
  • Mont Cenis platter lift
  • Piou Piou magic carpet
  • Plan Cardinal chairlift
  • Plan des Champs platter lift
  • Pont Noir platter lift
  • Pont des Chèvres chairlift
  • Pré Novel chairlift
  • Ramasse chairlift
  • Roches Blanches chairlift
  • Sablons platter lift
  • Saint-Pierre platter lift
  • Solert chairlift
  • Sources chairlift
  • TSD6 Grand Coin chairlift
  • Tannes platter lift
  • Terres Grasses platter lift
  • Turra chairlift
  • Val Cenis le Haut gondola
  • Vieux Moulin gondola
  • École magic carpet

Photos

The snowy Escargot piste below Mont-Cenis, a run marker and a broad snow bowl under a blue sky
photo Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Val Cenis worth it?

Val Cenis lies in the Haute-Maurienne in Savoie, near the Italian border below the Mont Cenis pass. The resort is known for "L'Escargot" -- the longest green run in France, which winds down from the upper slopes all the way to the village, giving beginners a descent they would have to earn elsewhere.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 100 km of pistes, a fair amount for such a quiet, uncrowded corner of the Alps. The runs are mostly easy and intermediate, across broad, sunny terrain above the Maurienne valley.

The runs reach around 2,800 m and the village sits at nearly 1,440 m, so the vertical is large and the altitude gives reliable snow. The season usually runs from December to April.

The price we give is a one-day adult ticket -- €49.50 from the high-season rate list (checked 14 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland is, per OpenStreetMap, about 1,382 km from Wrocław, 1,470 from Katowice and 1,546 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.

  • Aussois France 11 km away · 31 km of piste
  • La Norma France 16 km away · 62 km of piste
  • Pralognan-la-Vanoise France 17 km away · 25 km of piste
  • Bonneval-sur-Arc France 17 km away · 31 km of piste
  • Chiomonte Frais Italy 21 km away · 9 km of piste
  • Tignes - Val d'Isère France 22 km away · 395 km of piste
  • Valfréjus France 22 km away · 38 km of piste
  • Bardonecchia - Jafferau Italy 23 km away · 30 km of piste

Compare Val Cenis with its neighbours: Val Cenis vs Tignes – Val d'Isère · Val Cenis vs Les 3 Vallées · Val Cenis vs La Plagne · Val Cenis vs Les Arcs / Peisey-Vallandry

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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.