Visiting Les Houches
Helpful resort information to assist planning your trip to Les Houches.
- Season opens17 Dec 2022
- Season closes10 Apr 2023
- Accommodation—
- Restaurants | Bars14 | 14
- Nearest Airport Geneva
- Nearest Train Station Houches
- Tourist Office Website
- Tourist Office Phone+33450555062
Les Houches Features
The terrain at Les Houches includes::
- Halfpipes0
- Terrain Parks1
- X-Country15.0 km
- Ski Hire
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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.
Latest photos from Les Houches. View all photos at the Les Houches gallery page.
Photo credit: Олег Владимирович
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Photo credit: tourist offical
Photo credit: Snow Forecast Admin
Photo credit: Sally Staveley
Photo credit: Sally Staveley
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Photo credit: Peter White
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
Resort | Snow Depth | Temp. (°C) | Wind (km/h) | Weather | ||
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Top Lift: | 0.7 m | -4 | ||||
Middle Lift: | -1 | |||||
Bottom Lift: | 0.2 m | 1 | ||||
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Visitor Reviews of Les Houches
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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