My wife and I will be traveling from Paris to Turin in mid-February. We hope to be booked on the TGV leaving Paris at 2:41 p.m. Will there be enough daylight for us to see the Alps when we pass through Switzerland on the way to Turin? Many thanks, John
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Unlikely. If your on the TGV at 2:41 pm, you will travel via Lyon and the Frejus Tunnel, bypassing Switzerland. You will depart Chambery at the start of the Alps at 5.43 pm, sunset will be 6:00 pm in Lyon in mid February. If it is clear, the Alps should be well lit by the setting sun as you enter, but will probably be pitch black by 7 pm after you leave Modane. At 7:30 pm you enter the Frejus Tunnel and its always pitch black there.