Weekly note
Chamonix
i

Photo: Getty Images, Unsplash+.

Chamonix from London

805 km, about 1h 54m in the air. Every month scored for the weather at Chamonix and for the holidays that crowd it out at both ends.

  1. Chamonix in January: ok, busy
  2. Chamonix in February: sweet spot
  3. Chamonix in March: sweet spot
  4. Chamonix in April: sweet spot
  5. Chamonix in May: good
  6. Chamonix in June: good
  7. Chamonix in July: good, busy
  8. Chamonix in August: good, busy
  9. Chamonix in September: ok, busy
  10. Chamonix in October: good
  11. Chamonix in November: ok
  12. Chamonix in December: ok, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Feb–Apr — these months score within a whisker of each other; Snow: 30 cm or more on 30 of 30 days, 10 winters of 10. Jun is the next best.

Month by month from London

No fare history on LON–GVA yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only. The price column fills in as the scanner collects.

MonthMax °CRain days Crowds VerdictWhy
Jan 4° 12d 45 okbusy busier than usual
Feb 7° 9d 84 sweet spot Snow: 30 cm or more on 28 of 28 days, 10 winters of 10
Mar 9° 12d 80 sweet spot Snow: 30 cm or more on 31 of 31 days, 10 winters of 10
Apr 13° 10d 80 sweet spot Snow: 30 cm or more on 30 of 30 days, 10 winters of 10
May 16° 15d 100 good 16C max, 15 rainy days
Jun 22° 13d 100 good 22C max, 13 rainy days
Jul 23° 11d 65 goodbusy busier than usual
Aug 23° 9d 65 goodbusy busier than usual
Sep 19° 10d 65 okbusy busier than usual
Oct 15° 11d 100 good 15C max, 11 rainy days
Nov 9° 12d 100 ok 9C max, 12 rainy days
Dec 5° 14d 45 okbusy busier than usual

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Crowds is a score out of 100 where higher is quieter. It counts public-holiday clusters in GB as well as at Chamonix, which is why this table differs from the same one read from another country. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. Crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest in January, July, August, September and December; quietest in April, May, October and November.

Getting there

LondonChamonix805 km
Nonstop flight British Airways, Swiss International Air Lines
By road 1,068 km, about 10h 46m driving

Nonstop routes from Wikipedia's airport articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), roads from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT, ferries from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Times are typical, not a schedule, and none of this is a fare — the searches below are where prices live.

Open in Rome2rio for every way from London to Chamonix, flying or not.

Without flying

No free source quotes live fares for trains, buses or ferries, so these are searches to run rather than prices we can stand behind.

Chamonix from anywhere · everywhere from London

Links marked Ad pay us a commission if you book through one, at no extra cost to you. That does not affect the scores on this page, which are computed from climate, holiday and fare data before any link is built.