2030 Winter Olympics: venues, events, schedule

In 2030, the French Alps host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games — the fourth time France has staged the Winter Games, after Chamonix, Grenoble and Albertville. But where, exactly, will each event take place? Between a run of announcements, a venue plan validated by the IOC in June 2026 and a few twists — including Nice’s withdrawal in the spring of that year — the map can make your head spin. This guide sorts it out, cluster by cluster and event by event, into the definitive venue map. And because we run a chalet in Oz-en-Oisans, we also tell you, honestly, what these Games do — or don’t — change for a stay in the Oisans.

The 2030 Games in brief

The 2030 Winter Olympics, carried by the “Alpes 2030” project, run from 1 to 17 February 2030, followed by the Paralympic Games from 1 to 10 March. The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, together with the Région Sud (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), hosts the event. The master venue plan was validated by the International Olympic Committee in June 2026: that document is now the reference for who hosts what.

The chosen philosophy is one of “scattered” Games, leaning as much as possible on existing facilities rather than new builds — in the spirit of Paris 2024 and then Milan-Cortina 2026. In practice, several resorts already seasoned in major international competition (skiing and biathlon World Cups…) and historic 1992 Olympic sites are being reactivated. That is good news for the project’s frugality; it also explains a very stretched-out geography, from the Aravis to the Briançonnais, with a detour via Lyon and even the Netherlands.

The definitive venue map, cluster by cluster

The setup revolves around two main snow hubs — one in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, the other in the Briançonnais (Hautes-Alpes) — plus an ice hub handed to the Lyon metropolitan area. Here is the detail.

Savoie and Haute-Savoie: the heart of the snow events

Most of the snow events are concentrated in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, at venues with heavyweight track records.

• Val d’Isère hosts the technical alpine skiing (slalom, giant slalom). The resort, already an Olympic site in 1992, is a historic home of the alpine skiing World Cup.
• Courchevel stages the speed alpine skiing (downhill, super-G), the ski jumping — on its Le Praz jumps, also inherited from 1992 — and the Nordic combined.
• La Plagne reopens its bobsleigh, luge and skeleton track, France’s only artificial sliding track, built for the Albertville 1992 Games.
• La Clusaz, in the Aravis, runs the cross-country skiing (and part of the Paralympic Nordic events).
• Le Grand-Bornand, next to La Clusaz, hosts the biathlon — a discipline it knows inside out thanks to its annual World Cup.

These venues form a coherent set around the Tarentaise and the Aravis, with Olympic villages placed as close as possible to the events (on the Tarentaise side, athletes are notably housed at Bozel, at the foot of Courchevel).

The Briançonnais: the freestyle hub of the Hautes-Alpes

Further south, in the Hautes-Alpes, the Briançonnais becomes the great hub of acrobatic sports and new-school riding — it is also the cluster closest to the Oisans.

• Serre Chevalier hosts the freestyle skiing (half-pipe, moguls, aerials) on the Casse du Bœuf snow front, in the commune of La Salle-les-Alpes.
• Montgenèvre stages the snowboard and the ski mountaineering, a discipline that made its Olympic debut at Milan-Cortina 2026 and grows in 2030.
• The area’s Olympic village is planned at Briançon, within the remarkable Fort des Têtes, a Vauban military work listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, refitted for the occasion.

In all, several dozen freestyle, snowboard and ski-mountaineering events will be contested between Serre Chevalier and Montgenèvre. For a stay from the Oisans, this is the cluster to remember: we devote a dedicated guide to it, the 2030 Olympics in Serre-Chevalier and Montgenèvre.

Lyon and abroad: the ice sports

Long announced for Nice, the indoor ice sports changed hands: after Nice withdrew in spring 2026, the IOC insisted on a single site, and the Lyon metropolitan area took over the whole ice hub — ice hockey, figure skating, short track and curling — at venues such as the LDLC Arena in Décines and the Halle Tony-Garnier.

One special case remains: speed skating. France has no covered long-track oval and chose not to build one for budget reasons. The events will therefore be held abroad, at the Thialf rink in Heerenveen (Netherlands) — a global temple of the discipline. A rather unusual first for the Games, and telling of the project’s “frugality” spirit.

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The summary table: venue, events, distance from the Oisans

For an at-a-glance overview, here is the summary of the main venues, their disciplines and how far they are from the Oisans (indicative driving times, outside difficult winter conditions).

You can see it clearly: from the Oisans, the Briançonnais really is within day-trip range, while the other hubs are half-day excursions or more. That is what shapes the smartest strategy for experiencing the Games without breaking the bank or piling into the crowds, as we explain in our guide on where to stay for the 2030 Games.

Alpe d’Huez and Oz host no events: let’s be straight about it

Let’s be clear, because it is the question we get most: neither Alpe d’Huez nor Oz-en-Oisans is a 2030 Olympic venue. You won’t see an Olympic jump or half-pipe on the Grand Domaine, and there will be no competition on our doorstep. We would rather say so up front than let anyone believe otherwise.

Why, then, cover it on the site of a chalet in Oz? Because the geography works in the Oisans’ favour. We are about an hour from Grenoble, at the crossroads of the valleys, and above all 1 hr 15 – 1 hr 45 from the Briançonnais over the Col du Lautaret. We are not in the crush of the host resorts — with all that means in multiplied prices, saturated lodging and controlled traffic — yet close enough to go and experience an event as a spectator and come home to ski in peace the next day.

The Oisans, an ideal base camp for February 2030

While the host resorts sell out and see their prices soar, the Oisans offers a very different equation. The Alpe d’Huez Grand Domaine — 250 km of pistes, Pic Blanc at 3,330 m, the Sarenne — runs at full tilt in February, with not a single event to close a sector or clog the lifts. You ski normally, on one of France’s largest resorts, a gondola ride from Oz. For the run-by-run detail, our guide to the Grand Domaine from Oz covers it all.

For a group of 16, the whole-chalet logic makes complete sense here. One roof for the whole crew, a big table to relive the day’s events in front of the broadcasts, seven bedrooms so everyone finds their rhythm between a day on the slopes and a jaunt to the Briançonnais. And a budget that stays under control where, in the host resorts, it will explode: around €235 per person for an off-peak January week, up to about €437 per person in a peak February week, based on 16 people — against resort-hotel rates that make little sense in Olympic season.

This “base camp” role is nothing new to the Games: it is the very vocation of Oz-en-Oisans, a village-resort linked to the domain yet spared its bustle. The 2030 Games simply put it in the spotlight. Our in-depth piece on the 2030 Winter Games seen from the Oisans sets all this in the context of the range, and our winter page gathers the season essentials.

Book early: the real race against the clock

There is one event that starts well before February 2030: finding a place to stay. An Olympic edition focuses attention on the entire Alpine range, far beyond the competition venues alone. Large capacities — group chalets, family residences — are the first to go, and February is, even in a normal year, the most coveted week of winter.

• Lock in the week early. For a group chalet aimed at February 2030, booking as soon as 2028–2029 is nothing excessive.
• Sort lodging before tickets. Without a roof, the best ticket is useless: set the base camp first, fine-tune the events later.
• Check the school calendar. February 2030 overlaps the French winter holidays by zone: crowds will depend on the week you choose.
• Follow official announcements. Ticketing, the event schedule and the ceremony sites will firm up gradually before 2030.

In summary

The 2030 Winter Olympics, from 1 to 17 February, draw a two-snow-hub map — Savoie/Haute-Savoie (Val d’Isère, Courchevel, La Plagne, La Clusaz, Le Grand-Bornand) and the Briançonnais (Serre Chevalier, Montgenèvre) — rounded out by an ice hub in Lyon and speed skating in the Netherlands. Alpe d’Huez and Oz-en-Oisans host no events, but the Oisans, central and calm, is a base camp of choice: just over an hour from the Briançonnais, with a wide-open resort at the end of your skis.

If you are thinking of experiencing the Olympic winter from a genuine family base camp, check our rates and availability — and book early. To verify every detail at the source, the official Alpes 2030 website and the IOC’s French Alps 2030 pages are the authority for the map, the schedule and ticketing.

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