Aillons-Margériaz

Beginners: yesFamilies: with caveatsExperts: not really

About the area

Aillon-Margériaz is a small Savoie area with about 22 km of marked pistes, and the balance is clearly tilted towards easy skiing: 75% of the runs are green or blue (17 km), with 15 km of blue, 3 km of red and 2 km of black. Beginners are well served, with a magic carpet for first turns and 16 short easy runs starting next to a lift base. Families can manage, though there is only one magic carpet. Experts will run out of terrain quickly: black and freeride pistes make up just 7%.

The skiing sits between 1385 m and 1830 m, so 383 m of vertical at most, and the longest single descent measures 2563 m. Ten lifts serve the slopes, but only one is a chair lift; the rest are six platters, a T-bar, a drag lift and the magic carpet.

At a glance

Pistes
22 km
Lifts
10
Altitude
1385–1830 m
Vertical
445 m
Runs
44
Longest run
2.6 km
Biggest vertical on one run
383 m
Magic carpets
1
Nursery runs at lift bases
16

Measured on OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via OpenSkiMap. Computed 2026-09-09. Official figures may differ.

Pistes by difficulty

  • Green1.4 km
  • Blue15.3 km
  • Red3.3 km
  • Black1.6 km
  • Unclassified0.6 km

Lifts by type

  • 6Button lift
  • 1T-bar
  • 1Drag lift
  • 1Chairlift
  • 1Magic carpet

Who should come here

Who should come here

Computed from the terrain itself — not a house opinion.

Beginners

yes

  • · 75% of pistes are green/blue (17 km)
  • · 7% are black/expert/freeride
  • · 1 magic carpet for first steps
  • · 16 short easy runs next to a lift base

Families

with caveats

  • · 1 magic carpet
  • · bases reached by car

Experts

not really

  • · 2 km black/expert/freeride (7%)
  • · longest vertical on one run 383 m

Best forbeginnersintermediates

Where to stay

Villages and towns with lifts to this area, and cheaper towns down the valley.