Een bestemmingspagina is geordend naar tijd: wanneer de locatie van belang is, welke evenementen dat belang bepalen, en hoe die locatie door het jaar verandert — gevolgd door de praktische geografie (luchthavens, jachthavens, wijken, hotelgebieden).
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.
01Wanneer Courchevel zaken
Twaalf maanden activiteit berekend op basis van de evenementen in de kalender van deze bestemming — het belang van elk evenement uitgespreid over de dagen die het beslaat. De evenementen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor elke maand staan naast de balk vermeld.
02De agenda hier
Binnenkort
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7 FebCourchevel · France · Culturele festivals Courchevel International Fireworks FestivalRegionaal
Elk evenement op de kalender
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03Waarom het relevant is
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.
04Het jaar, maand voor maand
05Weer per maand
| Maand | Hoog °C | Min °C | Neerslag mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Januari | 5.2 | -1.9 | 96.7 |
| Februari | 8.4 | -1.1 | 70.6 |
| Maart | 14.2 | 2.6 | 73.3 |
| April | 18.5 | 5.9 | 58.6 |
| Mei | 22.3 | 9.8 | 78.8 |
| Juni | 26.1 | 13.2 | 74.7 |
| Juli | 28.4 | 15.0 | 77.2 |
| Augustus | 28.0 | 14.8 | 74.0 |
| September | 23.0 | 11.3 | 64.8 |
| Oktober | 17.5 | 7.3 | 75.3 |
| November | 10.3 | 2.4 | 79.6 |
| December | 4.9 | -1.0 | 106.8 |
06Hoe er te komen en te bewegen
07Waar alles zich bevindt
Wijken
Hotelgebieden
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.
Restaurantwijken
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.
Culturele instellingen
Winkelen
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.
08Hoe de bestemming verandert
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.
09Geschiedenis
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.
In de buurt
Bronnen
- Courchevel, Wikipedia encyclopedia geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
- Les Trois Vallées, Wikipedia encyclopedia geraadpleegd 9 September 2026
- Moûtiers, Wikipedia encyclopedia geraadpleegd 9 September 2026