Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.
Key facts
Altitude
1300–3568 m
Vertical drop
2,268 m
Pistes advertised
200 km
Pistes mapped on OSM
109.4 km
Lifts (mapped near village)
28 · 64% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass
€60
Passes
none
Avg snowfall (mid)
6.2 m / season
Nearest airport
GNB · 105 min
Brochure vs map. Les 2 Alpes advertises 200 km. OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped 109.4 km of piste centrelines.
The brochure is 83% longer than the map. Resorts often measure the widest line down a slope or count ski routes and linked areas.
Snow & weather updated 1 h ago
Fresh 24 h
0 cm
Fresh 72 h
0 cm
Next 7 days
7 cm
Snow depth top (model)
0 cm
Now at 3418 m
☁️ 0°
Now at 1300 m
15°
Gusts at top
21 km/h
Freezing level
3,200 m
8-day forecast (summit)
Today
☁️
·
-5° / 1°
💨 21
Fri
☀️
·
-6° / -1°
💨 25
Sat
🌤️
·
-7° / -1°
💨 52
Sun
⛅
·
-10° / -4°
💨 81
Mon
☀️
·
-11° / -2°
💨 63
Tue
🌨️
7 cm
-12° / -6°
💨 68
Wed
☁️
·
-11° / -7°
💨 68
Thu
⛅
·
-13° / -4°
💨 70
Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 3418 m (summit) and 1300 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.
The last three winters at 2434 m
Avg snowfall / season
6.2 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
12
Snowy days
67
Avg temp at base
1.6°
Average snowfall by month · best: Dec
Nov
110
Dec
135
Jan
129
Feb
39
Mar
133
Apr
73
By season: 2022/23: 5.9 m · 11 powder days2023/24: 7.2 m · 13 powder days2024/25: 5.5 m · 12 powder days
When to go
Month
Avg snowfall
Tuesday 11:00
Saturday 11:00
Dec
135 cm
~2.1 min
~1.7 min
SWEET SPOT
Jan
129 cm
~2.4 min
~2.1 min
Feb
39 cm
~5.8 min
~4.9 min
Mar
133 cm
~2.9 min
~2.4 min
Apr
73 cm
~1.3 min
~1 min
Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).
Lift queues
Closed until Nov 28. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:
SIMULATION
Average wait ~5 min, worst 11 min.
Saturday changeover: chalets swap guests, slopes are quieterFrench school holidays (all zones rotate through February)UK half-term
Simulate:
🚠 Super Venosc
Gondola · 1,825 p/h · 1,109 m
11 minpredicted
🪑 Mont-de-Lans
Chairlift · 2-seater · 512 p/h · 1,075 m
8 minpredicted
🚠 Diable
Chair-gondola · 6-seater · 2,200 p/h · 1,956 m
7 minpredicted
⤴️ Lutins
Button lift · 1-seater · 600 p/h · 407 m
7 minpredicted
🪑 Alpette
Chairlift · 2-seater · 720 p/h · 392 m
6 minpredicted
⤴️ Champamé
Drag lift · 1-seater · 373 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Sautet
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,000 p/h · 442 m
6 minpredicted
⤴️ Gentianes
Button lift · 700 p/h · 258 m
6 minpredicted
⤴️ Séa
Button lift · 700 p/h · 181 m
6 minpredicted
🪑 Petite Aiguille
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,500 p/h · 799 m
5 minpredicted
🚠 Pierre Grosse
Gondola · 8-seater · 2,600 p/h · 2,486 m · bubble
5 minpredicted
⤴️ Grand Viking
Button lift · 700 p/h · 218 m
5 minpredicted
⤴️ Côte Brune
Drag lift · 1-seater · 750 p/h · 474 m
5 minpredicted
🚠 Vallée Blanche
Chair-gondola · 6-seater · 2,800 p/h · 1,697 m
5 minpredicted
🚠 Venosc
Gondola · 6-seater · 1,137 p/h · 1,695 m
5 minpredicted
⤴️ Envers
Button lift · 900 p/h · 165 m
5 minpredicted
⤴️ Orée des pistes
Button lift · 700 p/h · 292 m
4 minpredicted
🚠 Jandri I
Gondola · 32-seater · 3,000 p/h · 3,839 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Côte
Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,500 p/h · 810 m
4 minpredicted
🚠 Jandri II
Gondola · 32-seater · 3,000 p/h · 2,563 m
4 minpredicted
🚠 Belle Étoile
Chair-gondola · 6-seater · 2,967 p/h · 1,449 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Village 1800
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,000 p/h · 1,439 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Super Diable
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,200 p/h · 1,018 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Thuit Crêtes
Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,400 p/h · 538 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Fée
Chairlift · 6-seater · 2,600 p/h · 1,669 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Toura
Chairlift · 8-seater · 3,600 p/h · 983 m
4 minpredicted
🪑 Crêtes
Chairlift · 8-seater · 3,450 p/h · 1,437 m
3 minpredicted
🪑 Bellecombe
Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,600 p/h · 1,165 m
3 minpredicted
Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)
9h
10h
11h
12h
13h
14h
15h
16h
Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thu 18
Fri 19
Sat 20
Sun 21
Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.
How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.
Map
· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.
Where to sleep 43 places mapped · 4 ski-in/ski-out
Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.
Pistes
Beginner
22.4 km · 20%
Easy (blue / green)
49.7 km · 45%
Intermediate (red / blue)
18.2 km · 17%
Advanced (black)
8.2 km · 7%
Expert
2.2 km · 2%
Freeride / ski route
8.7 km · 8%
Longest named runs
ancienne piste intermédiare "Bons"
3.2 km
Fée 2
3.1 km
Jandri 2
3.0 km
Vallée Blanche
2.9 km
Demoiselles
2.8 km
Vallons du Diable
2.8 km
Bellecombe 5
2.7 km
Jandri 4
2.6 km
Après & food
Bars & pubs
19
Clubs
3
Restaurants
65
Mountain huts
0
🪩 Le Studio🍸 The Mini Bar🪩 L'Avalanche🍺 The Red Frog🍸 Smithy's Tavern (Bar)🍸 Jukeboxx🍺 The Polar Bear Pub🍸 K.ré🍸 Chez nous 2🪩 La Grotte du Yeti🍸 Chez Ginette🍸 The Penguin Pub🍸 Le Tolkien🍸 La Rhumerie🍸 Wine Not🍸 Umbrella Bar🍸 L'Abri🍸 Motown🍸 La Mezzanine🍺 Le Windsor🍸 De Prins van Oranje🍸 Pano Bar
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Nearest major airport: GNB, about 105 min away by road. Directions · Flights
Les 2 Alpes is a ski resort in the French department of Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The village sits at 1,650 m (5,413 ft) and lifts run to 3,600 m (11,811 ft). It has the largest skiable glacier in Europe and is France's second oldest ski resort behind Chamonix. It has the longest, normally open full on-piste vertical available in the world. It is a 71 km (44 mi) drive southeast of Grenoble. The famous Off-Piste resort La Grave is also reachable by foot from the top of the glacier. Wikipedia