Port-Valais
Port-Valais is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Port-Valais is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Port-Valais
5 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.
- 01Le Grammont
Le Grammont is a mountain in the Chablais Alps, near Le Bouveret in Valais. At 2,172 metres above sea level, it is one of the highest peaks overlooking Lake Geneva.
3.6 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 02Swiss Vapeur Parc
The Swiss Vapeur Parc is a miniature park in Le Bouveret, a village on Lac Léman, Switzerland. It was opened on June 6, 1989, by an International Festival of Steam.
2.1 km · miniature park · Wikipedia - 03Lake Taney
Lac de Taney is a lake in Valais, Switzerland. Its surface area is 17 ha.
3.1 km · Landscape/natural monument of national importance in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04Tauredunum event
The Tauredunum event of 563 AD was a tsunami on Lake Geneva, triggered by a massive landslide which caused widespread devastation and loss of life along the lakeshore. According to two contemporary chroniclers, the disaster was caused by the collapse of a mountainside at a place called Tauredunum at the eastern end of Lake Geneva.
1.5 km · ancient Tsunami on Lake Geneva · Wikipedia - 05Le Tâche
Le Tâche is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, overlooking the Rhone valley at Vouvry, in the canton of Valais. It lies east of the Lac de Taney.
2.8 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia
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.
Getting to Port-Valais
- Airports
- Geneva (GVA), 60 km · Turin (TRN), 143 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 146 km
- Stations
- Bouveret, 2 km · Bouveret railway station, 2.4 km · Les Evouettes railway station, 1.1 km
- Geneva → Port-Valais58 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · CHF11–15
- Zurich → Port-Valais169 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · CHF23–31
- Caselle Torinese (TO) → Port-Valais146 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · €23–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Port-Valais
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 Port-Valais. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe company, which operates 1/3 of the Golden Pass route to Lucerne along with the BLS and the Zentralbahn brought under its sales banner, the cog-wheel Montreux - Glion - Rochers-de-Naye Railway and its associated funicular from nearby Territet, the Les Avants - Sonloup funicular and the lines of the former CEV from Vevey into the hills.
From Wikivoyage: Montreux, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Port-Valais – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.