Les Houches Resort Guide

The Les Houches resort summary is: Les Houches has 18 lifts within its terrain that is suitable for beginner and intermediate levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 852m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 22 trail at Les Houches.


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Les Houches Resort Guide

The Les Houches resort summary is: Les Houches has 18 lifts within its terrain that is suitable for beginner and intermediate levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 852m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 22 trail at Les Houches.

Vertical:

Top: 1860m
Arrow
852m
Bot: 1008m

Best for:

Beginners level skier
Beginners/
Intermediates

Trails:

22
40%
50%
10%

Hectares of Ski:

Snowmaking: 70%

Les Houches Lifts:

  • drag lift icon9
  • ski lift icon7
  • cablecar icon2
Total lifts = 18
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Visiting Les Houches

Helpful resort information to assist planning your trip to Les Houches.

  • Season opens
    17 Dec 2022
  • Season closes
    10 Apr 2023
  • Accommodation
  • Restaurants | Bars
    14 | 14
  • Nearest Airport
    Geneva
  • Nearest Train Station
    Houches
  • Tourist Office Website
  • Tourist Office Phone
    +33450555062

Les Houches Features

The terrain at Les Houches includes::


Ed Leighs Money Savings Tips whilst visiting Les Houches

What's it like at Les Houches resort?

Les Houches is the home of the world famous Khandahar Verte des Houches Downhill ski run, hosting the Chamonix Valley leg of the World Cup circuit in early January of each year. Although a rather small resort, the 47 km of runs offer a good variety of alpine skiing sweeping down through woodland on the north-western slopes of Mont Blanc, the white dome of which tower's above the ski area. A number of race clubs use Les Houches as a training ground so, understandably, the standard of skiing is generally on the high side. Les Houches is also the winter training base for the British Ski Academy. Whilst not an area large enough to consider for an exclusive trip, unless specifically for training, it is well worth paying a visit if skiing in the Chamonix valley. For Intermediates and above, with the exception of race days, you can ski the Khandahar from the 1860m summit, back to the town centre at the resorts base, uninterrupted.

Les Houches is at last being managed by the Chamonix Lift Company and many changes are scheduled for next season (2012-2013) with new lifts and expanded pistes. In the meantime the two terrain parks have been closed. This gives more space for the resort's traditional use for race-training and instructor development courses.


Explore Les Houches Location Map

Interactive Les Houches trail map and piste map. View the piste and trails as well as the surrounding terrain and mountain contours for backcountry action. Find and compare nearby resorts by clicking on the resort markers.

Les Houches Live Weather

ResortSnow DepthTemp. (°C)Wind (km/h)Weather
Top Lift: 0.7m
-4
0
light snow
Middle Lift: 
-1
0
light snow
Bottom Lift: 0.2m
1
0
light snow

When's the snowiest month to visit Les Houches?

MarchAverage: 3.6 snow days per week
The snowiest week in Les Houches is week 1 of March. There are typically 3.6 snowy days during this week with 43cm of snowfall. Check out the Les Houches Snow History graphs below.


Visitor Reviews of Les Houches

Overall: 3.8 Based on 11 votes and 20 reviews

  • Snowsure 4.1
  • Variety of pistes 4.1
  • Off-piste 3.0
  • Scenery 4.4
  • Apres-Ski 3.4
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Nic from United Kingdom writes:

Les Houches is ok as a resort for beginners but will quickly become boring for intermediates and above. Some fairly steep sections on the blues that will scare beginners trying to move on from the green. Some slopes get little sun so can be very icy. The route down into the village can become very busy in the afternoon with the snow quite choppy, but then you can use the gondola to come down. Not much in the way of apres-ski.

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