Le Monêtier-les-Bains:Village and ski area guide

What is Le Monêtier-les-Bains like?

Le Monêtier-les-Bains is one of the four sectors of the Serre Chevalier ski area, alongside Briançon, Chantemerle and Villeneuve. The resort's own site describes it as a Roman village with hot springs, and says it was the third largest town in the Hautes-Alpes in the 18th century. The town hall is at 5 Place Novalese, and the commune's site is monetier.com.

It is the village to choose if you want a place with its own history and a sector of the domain with its own trails and webcams.

Skiing in Le Monêtier-les-Bains

The Serre Chevalier domain has 250 km of trails across 410 hectares of marked ski area, 82 runs and 58 ski lifts, according to the resort's ski area page. The page says 80% of the runs are above 1,800 m.

The Monêtier sector

The trail map divides the village's sector into two parts, Monêtier Bachas and Monêtier Sommet. The Bachas sector has its own webcam at 2,176 m. The resort's French site names a snow front at Pré Chabert.

The resort's pages do not say which lift links the Monêtier sector to the rest of the domain, so this guide does not name one. Check the trail map before you plan a route across the sectors.

Things to do in Le Monêtier-les-Bains

The resort's booking site lists a guided village visit, which lasts 2 hours 30 minutes and costs nothing. It is aimed at families. The meeting point is parking P6, in front of the town hall. Wear warm clothes and closed shoes. The tour goes ahead on time whatever the weather, outdoors or indoors depending on conditions. An inclusive version is available if you contact the guide in advance.

Le Monêtier-les-Bains in summer

The resort's webcams page lists the high-altitude ski area as open from 20 June to 30 August 2026. The Clot des Vaches refuge, in the Cerces massif, is in Monêtier-les-Bains, and the resort's webcams page lists a camera there at 2,400 m.

How to get to Le Monêtier-les-Bains

The resort's plane page gives these journey times to Serre Chevalier and Briançon: Turin Caselle, 1h30; Grenoble, 2h00; Milan Malpensa, 2h40; Lyon Saint-Exupéry, 3h00; Marseille Marignane, 3h00. The page does not give times from Le Monêtier-les-Bains itself, so allow a little more for the drive to the village.

Weather, snow and webcams

The resort's webcams page lists two cameras in Monêtier-les-Bains: one in the Bachas sector and one at the Clot des Vaches refuge. For the state of the slopes and lifts, use the resort's interactive trail map, which has the opening of slopes and lifts.

When to visit Le Monêtier-les-Bains

At the time of writing, the resort's webcams page gives the ski area's season for 2026/27 as 5 December 2026 to 18 April 2027, subject to snow conditions. The same page gives the high-altitude summer area as 20 June to 30 August 2026.

Le Monêtier-les-Bains vs Chantemerle

Both are sectors of the same domain. Chantemerle has the resort's cable car square, with a webcam over the Luc Alphand slope at 1,350 m. Le Monêtier-les-Bains is the village with the Roman past and hot springs, and its own Bachas and Sommet sectors.

Choose Le Monêtier-les-Bains if you want a village with a guided visit and the Bachas and Sommet sectors.

Choose Chantemerle if you want the sector around the cable car square.

What's nearby

• Briançon

  The sector of the domain that the resort's official site names after the town.

• Chantemerle

  A sector with the cable car square and a webcam over the Luc Alphand slope.

• Villeneuve / La Salle-les-Alpes

  A sector with the Plateau de Méa and the Aravet trails.