--- title: "Monthey District – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Monthey District, Switzerland: The district of Monthey is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Nearby: Pointe de Bellevue, Bec du Corbeau…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/monthey-district" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/monthey-district.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Lac_de_Taney_depuis_Taney.jpg/1920px-Lac_de_Taney_depuis_Taney.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- District in Switzerland # Monthey District The district of Monthey is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. ![Monthey District](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Lac_de_Taney_depuis_Taney.jpg/1920px-Lac_de_Taney_depuis_Taney.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Monthey District · Christian David The place The district of Monthey is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of 47,912. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthey_District), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Monthey District 4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Pointe de Bellevue The Pointe de Bellevue is a mountain in the Chablais Alps, overlooking Monthey in Valais. 1.8 km · mountain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_de_Bellevue) 2. Bec du Corbeau The Bec du Corbeau is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, overlooking Morgins in the Swiss canton of Valais. It lies west of Pointe de Bellevue, on the watershed between the valleys of the Dranse d'Abondance and Illiez. 3.5 km · mountain in Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bec_du_Corbeau) 3. Tour de Don The Tour de Don is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Vionnaz in the Swiss canton of Valais. The summit lies about 200 meters east of the border with France. 3.8 km · mountain in Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Don) 4. Lac de Conche Lac de Conche is a lake in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is located in the municipality of Collombey-Muraz, at an elevation of 1687 m, close to the French border. 3.1 km · lake in Canton of Valais, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Conche) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Monthey District **Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 61 km · Turin (TRN), 132 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 153 km\ **Stations:** Collombey railway station, 3.6 km\ - Geneva → Monthey District 62 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · CHF12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-monthey-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Monthey+District) - Zurich → Monthey District 174 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · CHF24–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-monthey-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Monthey+District) - Caselle Torinese (TO) → Monthey District 131 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €21–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/caselle-torinese-to-to-monthey-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Caselle+Torinese+%28TO%29&to=Monthey+District) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Monthey%20District) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Monthey District Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Monthey District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around The TeleLeysin cable car \[http://www.teleleysin.ch\] runs both summer and winter. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 71 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 324 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 778 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 791 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 833 km If you know how people move in Monthey District – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmonthey-district&title=Monthey+District&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmonthey-district), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Monthey District - [Collombey-Muraz](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/collombey-muraz) municipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland 3.7 km [The place page for Monthey District](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/monthey-district) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Switzerland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/monthey-district, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt