Courchevel

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Courchevel is not one village but four, stacked up a single valley in the Tarentaise, in Savoie: Le Praz at 1,300 meters, Courchevel Village at 1,550, Moriond at 1,650, and Courchevel 1850 at the top, each numbered for its approximate altitude. The whole resort was designed after the Second World War by the planner Laurent Chappis, making it, by its own account, the first ski resort in France built from scratch rather than grown around an existing settlement; local administration was consolidated into a single new commune only in 2017.

Courchevel is one of the entry points to Les Trois Vallées, marketed as the largest linked ski area in the world: roughly 600 kilometers of piste and 183 lifts connecting Courchevel with La Tania, Méribel, Les Menuires, Val Thorens and smaller villages across three valleys. Above Courchevel 1850, at just over 2,000 meters, sits the Altiport, a short, steeply sloped mountain airstrip that pilots require a specific qualification to use, and one of the more dramatic ways to arrive at any European resort.

Outside the ski season Courchevel is quiet: the higher villages, built purely for winter, close for much of the summer, and the resort's one dedicated public event, an international fireworks competition, is itself a winter fixture rather than a summer one. Visitors who come between seasons find a working mountain valley rather than a resort in the conventional sense.

01Quando Courchevel importa

Dodici mesi di attività calcolati dagli eventi presenti nel calendario di questa destinazione — l'importanza di ciascun evento è distribuita sui giorni che occupa. Gli eventi responsabili di ogni mese sono elencati accanto alla barra.

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Feb Courchevel International Fireworks Festival

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Dec

Christmas and New Year fortnight · Dec–JanOrthodox Christmas week · JanFebruary half-term fortnight · FebCourchevel International Fireworks Festival · Feb–Mar

Sight, in December, of Courchevel 1850 ski resort village, in Savoie, France

Sight, in winter from the east, of Courchevel ski resort and its valley, in Savoie, France

Sight of Courchevel 1850 base of the slopes and Chenus gondola lift, in Savoie, France

02Il calendario qui

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Courchevel · France · Festival Culturali Courchevel International Fireworks Festival 23rd edition · February 7, 2027 · 23rd edition Previsto

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Altiport de Courchevel runway in 2007, Courchevel International Fireworks Festival

Festival Culturali Courchevel International Fireworks Festival Feb 7, 2027

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03Perché è rilevante

Courchevel's claim on the calendar rests less on any single event than on its role as the best-known entry point to Les Trois Vallées, skiing's largest connected terrain; being reachable directly by small aircraft, at an altiport more often discussed than actually used, has done as much for the resort's reputation as its skiing. In our reading, Courchevel's origin as a purpose-built, planned resort, rather than a historic town that later added lifts, also explains its four-village structure, which offers noticeably different registers of accommodation - from Le Praz's quiet valley floor to Courchevel 1850's high, purpose-built center - within a few minutes of one another.

04L'anno, mese per mese

GennaioThe Christmas and New Year fortnight carries into the first days of the month, with a second peak around Orthodox Christmas on January 7; skiing across Les Trois Vallées is fully open.

FebbraioFebruary's school-holiday fortnight is the season's other major peak, and the Courchevel International Fireworks Festival begins its rotation of evening displays across the four villages.

MarzoThe fireworks festival concludes in the first days of the month; skiing continues, generally with thinner crowds than January or February.

AprileThe ski season typically winds down through the month, with the higher sectors of Les Trois Vallées often staying open longer than Courchevel's own slopes.

MagThe resort closes almost entirely; lifts stop running and most hotels and restaurants in the higher villages shut for the year.

GiugnoA quiet month, with the higher villages still largely closed and only limited summer activity in Le Praz and the valley floor.

LuglioSome restaurants and activities reopen for a modest summer season of hiking and mountain biking, well below the scale of the winter operation.

AgostoSummer activity continues at the same modest scale as July, busiest around the French August holiday period.

SettembreThe brief summer season ends and the resort empties out again ahead of the autumn closure.

OttobreThe quietest month of the year, with the resort essentially shut between seasons.

NovembrePreparations for the coming winter build through the month, with the ski season typically opening in the first half of December.

DicembreThe ski season opens, usually in the first half of the month, and builds quickly toward the Christmas peak.

Sight, in winter, of Courchevel 1850 ski resort village and its tourist office, in Savoie, France

05Meteo per mese

Fonte: Wikipedia climate table for Moûtiers (479 m; 1991-2020 normals; Météo-France data) - the nearest town with a published record; Courchevel's own villages sit 800-1,400 meters higher and are substantially colder and snowier than these valley-floor figures. Medie di lungo periodo; una determinata settimana può variare.
Mese	Temp. max °C	Min °C	Pioggia mm
Gennaio	5.2	-1.9	96.7
Febbraio	8.4	-1.1	70.6
Marzo	14.2	2.6	73.3
Aprile	18.5	5.9	58.6
Mag	22.3	9.8	78.8
Giugno	26.1	13.2	74.7
Luglio	28.4	15.0	77.2
Agosto	28.0	14.8	74.0
Settembre	23.0	11.3	64.8
Ottobre	17.5	7.3	75.3
Novembre	10.3	2.4	79.6
Dicembre	4.9	-1.0	106.8

06Come arrivarci e come spostarsi

AeroportiChambéry Airport (CMF) · 110 km · commerciale — the nearest airport with scheduled and seasonal charter flights, heavily used during the winter season.Geneva Airport (GVA) · 150 km · commerciale — a larger hub with more year-round scheduled service, about two and a half hours by road.Courchevel Altiport (CVF) · 2 km · private aviation — a short, steeply sloped mountain airstrip immediately above Courchevel 1850, usable only by pilots with a specific mountain qualification.

Aviazione privataThe Altiport itself takes only small aircraft flown by specially qualified pilots; most business jets serving Courchevel use Chambéry, Geneva or Lyon instead, finishing the journey by road or helicopter.

ElicotteroHelicopter transfers from Geneva, Chambéry and Lyon are a commercially arranged way to reach Courchevel in winter, landing at the Altiport.

Come spostarsiThe nearest railway station is at Moûtiers, on the line from Paris and Lyon, with a road or helicopter transfer covering the remaining climb into the resort. Within Courchevel, a free shuttle bus connects the four villages, and roads into the highest village are managed carefully during the busiest weeks of the season.

07Dove si trovano le cose

Quartieri

Courchevel 1850the highest and best-known of the four villages, purpose-built around the Altiport and the upper lifts.

Courchevel Moriond (1650)a mid-altitude village with its own lift access into Les Trois Vallées.

Courchevel Village (1550)a lower, generally less expensive base with direct piste access.

Le Praz (1300)the original village of the valley, at the lowest altitude, with the resort's Nordic and ski-jumping facilities from the 1992 Albertville Olympics.

Aree dell'hotel

Courchevel 1850 holds the resort's highest concentration of hotels directly on the piste, purpose-built rather than converted from an older village. Moriond and Courchevel Village offer progressively lower-altitude, generally less expensive alternatives with their own lift access, and Le Praz, at the valley floor, is the quietest and least expensive of the four.

Quartieri della ristorazione

Each of the four villages has its own restaurant cluster around its lift base, with Courchevel 1850's the largest and busiest; mountain restaurants across Les Trois Vallées operate for lunch service through the ski season.

Istituzioni culturali

Le Praz Olympic ski jumpsbuilt for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics and still used for training and competition.

Shopping

Courchevel 1850 carries the resort's concentration of boutiques, clustered around the village center near the Altiport; the lower villages have more limited, everyday shopping.

08Come cambia il luogo

Courchevel is almost entirely a winter resort. Its four villages are busiest, in order, over the Christmas and New Year fortnight, the Orthodox Christmas week in early January and the February school-holiday fortnight, with the international fireworks festival running through the same late-winter stretch. Summer brings a small, lower-key season of hiking and mountain biking, well short of winter's scale, and the resort is close to dormant between the two.

09Storia

Courchevel was designed after the Second World War by the planner Laurent Chappis as part of a coordinated plan to develop the Tarentaise valley for skiing, making it, by its own account, the first ski resort in France built from scratch rather than grown around an existing village. Its four villages - Le Praz, Courchevel Village, Moriond and Courchevel 1850 - were built in sequence up the mountainside through the second half of the twentieth century and were not consolidated into a single commune until 2017. Le Praz's ski jumps were built for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics. The resort's connection into what became Les Trois Vallées, now marketed as the world's largest linked ski area, was built up gradually as neighboring valleys developed their own lift networks over the same decades.