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![Les Avants](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Les_Avants_%28Commune_de_Montreux%29_-_aerial_shot_%28summer_2024%29.jpg/3840px-Les_Avants_%28Commune_de_Montreux%29_-_aerial_shot_%28summer_2024%29.jpg)

# Les Avants

Les Avants is a village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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## Every way there

- Geneva → Les Avants 67 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · CHF10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-les-avants) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Les+Avants)
- Zurich → Les Avants 159 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · CHF22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-les-avants) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Les+Avants)
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Les Avants 135 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-les-avants) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Les+Avants)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Les Avants, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Les Avants has

- Y Scheduled flights Geneva (GVA), 68 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Montreux, 3 km, Compagnie générale de navigation sur le lac Léman (CGN); sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Lausanne, 25 km.

46.454°, 6.944°

It is located in the municipality of Montreux, in the east of the canton, in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut. It lies 3.5 km (2.2 mi) north-east of the town of Montreux and 25 km (16 mi) east of Lausanne.

How locals move

## Getting around Les Avants the local way

- Get around The 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Montreux), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Avants), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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