Alpes 2030 is the name the organising committee uses. The Games are in France, plus one rink in the Netherlands. They are not a single mountain resort, and they are not a Mediterranean ice cluster.
Five clusters
Lyon holds the ice sports, except long-track speed skating. Haute-Savoie holds biathlon at Le Grand-Bornand and cross-country at La Clusaz. Savoie holds alpine skiing at Courchevel and Val d'Isère, and bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton at La Plagne. The Briançonnais holds freestyle, snowboard, ski mountaineering, and freeride. Thialf, in Heerenveen, holds long-track speed skating.
Chamonix hosted the first Winter Games in 1924. It is not on the 2030 competition map. Méribel, Val Thorens, Megève, and Les Deux Alpes are not competition venues either. They still matter if you are skiing the same week, because the competition hills will be closed to the public while races are on.
How to use this guide
Start with the venue table. Then pick a cluster: Lyon, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, the Briançonnais, or Thialf. Stay advice is separate from the sport, because the athlete villages are not hotels.
On 12 October 2026 the organising committee adopted a second multi-year budget of €2.135 billion, 73% of it from private revenue, almost flat on the previous year. That figure is the committee's budget. It is not a forecast of apartment prices.
The 18 September 2026 release called these the first strictly gender-equal Olympic Winter Games, and said ceremony sites were still to be chosen. Nothing published since then, on the committee's own site, names an opening-ceremony city.
