Mountain pass · France

Col de Saxel by motorcycle

Col de Saxel tops out at 943 m (3,094 ft) in France. It is the 115th highest of the 145 passes in France on the Motoseyir map. Below: the road surface, when it is usually closed, the passes around it and a loop you can ride over it.

Col de Saxel
Photo: Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Elevation
943 m (3,094 ft)
Location
France
Road surface
Paved
Winter
No seasonal closure is recorded for this road in our data. High roads can still close after snow, so check before you go.
Coordinates
46.2477, 6.3977
Sources
Wikidata · OpenStreetMap

Elevation is the figure on the pass’s OpenStreetMap entry or its source page; the point is the summit on the road itself.

Ride a loop over Col de Saxel

The web route planner opens with Col de Saxel as the start point. Choose a direction, how long you want to ride and how twisty the roads should be, and it draws up to three round trips that come back to the pass. Send the one you like to your phone with a QR code and ride it in Motoseyir.

Plan a loop over Col de Saxel

Passes near Col de Saxel

Col de Saxel in the Motoseyir app

Col de Saxel is on Motoseyir’s pass map with its altitude and exact location, along with 1,600+ passes in 36 countries. Add it to your tour and go.

If your route crosses a pass that may be closed this month, the app tells you before you set off, and Generate a tour skips closed passes. Passes you ride over are ticked off from your ride log automatically.

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Pass data: Motoseyir’s pass list, compiled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the source page linked above.