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Where to stay in Samoëns

A village at 699 m in the Le Grand Massif ski area, France.

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Lift season: The lifts aren't planned to run during your stay: they run from 19 Dec 2026 to 11 Apr 2027. Planned dates can change with the snow.

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About Samoëns

Ski area
Le Grand Massif (5 villages)
Country
France
Altitude
699 m
Pistes
265 km across the whole Le Grand Massif ski area
Piste difficulty
11% green, 48% blue, 35% red and 6% black of the mapped pistes
Lifts
69 lifts: 7 gondolas and cable cars, 21 chairlifts, 25 drag lifts and 16 magic carpets
Lift season
19 Dec 2026 to 11 Apr 2027 (planned for 2026/27)
Piste map
Official piste map (grand-massif.com), external site, opens in a new tab
Webcams
Official webcams (grand-massif.com), external site, opens in a new tab
Snow in the village
Around 12 Dec 2026: none (median of 29 winters)Through the winter: Mid-Dec none · Christmas none · Mid-Jan 6 cm · Mid-Feb none · Mid-Mar none
Snow on the slopes
No mountain station near enough with a long enough record

Location and altitude: IGN place names (BD TOPO) and altitude (RGE ALTI), via the Géoplateforme.

Piste length: Grand Massif official website, external site, opens in a new tab.

Lift season: Samoëns official website (Grand Massif), external site, opens in a new tab. Planned dates, which can change with the snow.

Piste difficulty and lifts: as mapped on OpenSkiMap, external site, opens in a new tab, © OpenStreetMap contributors, external site, opens in a new tab, downloaded 9 Oct 2026. Volunteer-mapped and counted by us, so they can differ from the ski area’s own figures; railways and funiculars aren’t counted as lifts.

Snow in the village: measured at the Samoëns weather station (785 m, 0.5 km away).

Typical depth is the median over the winters 1994/95 to 2023/24 with readings that week, shown only with at least 24 of them. Natural snow on open ground, not groomed pistes; past winters, not a forecast or snow report. Météo-France daily climatological data, external site, opens in a new tab (meteo.data.gouv.fr), Licence Ouverte 2.0, external site, opens in a new tab, counted by us.

Lift pass

€378 for an adult 6-day Grand Massif pass, 2026/27 main season.

Mid-range38th cheapest of 79 ski areas with a 2026/27 price.

Sold at €63 a day for 2 to 7 days.

Source: Le Grand Massif official price list, checked 25 Sept 2026. Public price; early-booking, online and package deals are often cheaper. Not part of the village scores.

Listed accommodation in Samoëns (23)

Real businesses from official directories, credited below. We don’t have their availability or prices, so they aren’t part of the score. Contact them directly to book.

11 residences, 9 hotels and 3 holiday villages. How many are listed depends on what each directory covers, which varies a lot between villages, so a low count doesn’t mean little accommodation.

Officially classified capacity: 3,236 guests across 15 establishments, plus 8 listings without capacity data. Capacity is for whole establishments, not a single booking.

Source: DATAtourisme (Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0), copied on 25 Sept 2026.

Source: Atout France, register of classified accommodation (Licence Ouverte / Open Licence), copied on 25 Sept 2026.

Supplied by Atout France, Office de Tourisme de Samoëns. Records updated between 26 Jul 2022 and 8 Sept 2026. Register addresses located with the Base Adresse Nationale.

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