Alpe d'Huez FAQ

Grenoble Alpes Isère is about 105 minutes by road from Alpe d'Huez (65.6 km).

The highest lift-served point is 3,235 m, with the village at 1,860 m, a vertical of 2,510 m.

Alpe d'Huez has 176 km of marked pistes across 141 runs, measured from OpenStreetMap geometry.

81 lifts (27 gondolas or cable cars, 15 chairlifts and 19 drag lifts).

Alpe d'Huez is scheduled to open on 5 December 2026 and close on 25 April 2027.

Alpe d'Huez is part of Alpe d'Huez Grand Domaine.

There is no station in the resort itself; the last leg is by road from Grenoble Alpes Isère.

Alpe d'Huez scores 6.4/10 for beginners; 22% of its piste km is green and we list 1 ski school.

Alpe d'Huez scores 5.2/10 for families, with 1 childcare provider listed and 49.5% of its pistes green or blue.

0 cm at the base and 0 cm at the top. These depths are modelled from Open-Meteo, not measured by the resort.

Alpe d'Huez scores 5.1/10 for snow reliability and it has glacier skiing.

Yes.

Yes — at least one piste in Alpe d'Huez is floodlit; check the resort's own timetable for the evenings it runs.

The closest resorts we cover are Les Deux Alpes, Serre Chevalier and Les Menuires.

0 cm at the top and 0 cm at the base, modelled from Open-Meteo rather than measured by the resort.

0 cm has fallen in the last 24 hours.

47 green, 39 blue, 33 red and 17 black, 141 in total.

The longest single marked run we measure is 8.1 km.

The resort publishes the current map itself; the link on this page goes straight to it, and the lift and piste tables below are generated from OpenStreetMap.

27 gondolas or cable cars, 15 chairlifts, 19 drag lifts and 14 magic carpets.

81 lifts serve 141 marked runs.

The first lifts of the 2026/27 season are scheduled for 5 December 2026.

About 109,218 skiers an hour, summed from the lifts we hold capacity figures for.

27, plus 15 chairlifts.

25 April 2027 for the 2026/27 season.

Grenoble Alpes Isère, about 105 minutes by road (65.6 km).

About 105 minutes by road over 65.6 km, routed by openrouteservice.

About 120 minutes by road over 62.7 km, routed by openrouteservice.

About 133 minutes by road over 104.3 km, routed by openrouteservice.

No — the nearest stations are down-valley; the last leg is by road.

1 childcare provider are listed in OpenStreetMap for Alpe d'Huez.

1.

49.5% of the piste km we measure is green or blue.

1,860 m, with lifts to 3,235 m.

14 magic carpets are mapped in Alpe d'Huez.

The resort publishes its own camera page; the link on this page goes straight to it.