Christmas Chalets in France

Home to the Three Valleys and the Espace Killy, and to high purpose-built resorts such as Val Thorens and Tignes.

423 chalets in France available for Christmas week when we last checked on 12 October 2026, from £759 for the week.

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Available for Christmas week in France

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One chalet in each of the first resorts we cover in France, available for Christmas week when we last checked.

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France has the highest ski village of any country we cover, Val Thorens at 2,300 metres, and at Christmas altitude matters a great deal. The purpose-built resorts of the Tarentaise sit high: Val Thorens at 2,300 metres, Tignes at 1,810 metres and La Plagne's upper villages at roughly 1,800 to 2,100 metres, with Les Arcs climbing from Arc 1600 to Arc 2000. That altitude is the main reason they are usually open in Christmas week when lower villages are still waiting.

The trade-off is character. A resort built in the 1970s for skiing does not look like an Austrian village, and Christmas in Val Thorens feels different from Christmas in Lech. But the Three Valleys and the Espace Killy give you more terrain than you can ski in a week, most chalets here are catered in the British sense, and Geneva is a short enough transfer to fly out on Saturday and ski on Sunday morning.

Resorts in France

Ranked by our Christmas Snow Score.

Chalets in France you can book now

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Flights, car hire and flight + hotel for Christmas week in France

For each resort: the airport these links fly into (one of the usual airports for that resort), and a live search for 19 Dec – 26 Dec 2026 from London. Prices and availability are on the partner’s site.

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Chalets in France

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Common questions

Which French ski resort is most snow-sure at Christmas?

Of the French resorts we cover, Tignes scores highest on our Christmas Snow Score, at 79 out of 100, followed by Alpe d'Huez at 74. The score rates how reliably a resort tends to have skiable snow in Christmas week, mostly from how often there has been snow on Christmas morning at weather stations since 1996; it is not a forecast, and no resort can promise snow.

When is Christmas week in the French Alps?

Alpine chalets almost all change over on a Saturday, so Christmas week runs Saturday to Saturday with Christmas Day falling mid-week. For the season shown on this page that is 19 Dec – 26 Dec 2026. The dates move each year, which is why no page on this site has a year in its address.

Christmas elsewhere in the Alps