Airolo Pesciüm
Airolo Pesciüm is a ski destination in Ticino with 21 km of mapped pistes and 8 lifts, between 1'179 m and 2'253 m. Mostly red and black, 11 km black. Nearby: Airlonia.
Rank Airolo Pesciüm against every ski area near Lucerne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Cassinello (2'101 m), 7.2 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station BED3. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Cloudy, 3°C, wind 10 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 10 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Sasso della Boggia (2'066 m, 0.2 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
Parking at Airolo Pesciüm
Main car park: Parcheggio Funivie Airolo-Pesciüm · CHF 5 for a ski day · airolo.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
3 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 3 car parks by the lifts of Airolo Pesciüm, the biggest first.
- Car park 50 m from the Funivia Airolo–Pesciüm · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · by the Funivia Airolo–Pesciüm · piste 40 m away · Map
- Car park 360 m from the Funivia Airolo–Pesciüm · Map
Distances are in a straight line to the bottom station of the nearest lift. Fees change: check with the car park before you go.
Car parks from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A car park missing? Fix the map
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 1h 14 | 1h 55Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 24 | 1h 43Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 2 changes |
| Chur | 1h 30 | 3h 18Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 4 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 47 | 2h 08Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 53 | 3h 09Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 56 | 2h 24Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 02 | 2h 35Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 09 | 3h 08Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 33 | 3h 06Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 45 | 4h 33Airolo, Bivio Funivia · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 09 | 5h 10Airolo, Caseificio/Funivia · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 11 | 5h 20Airolo, Caseificio/Funivia · 3 changes |
Train: the timetable’s fastest connection leaving the city’s station between 06:30 and 09:30 on Sat 16 Jan 2027, to the valley station of the area’s lowest lift, with the walk from the last stop. Car: an estimate from coordinates, not live traffic. Check your trip on sbb.ch before you go.
Plan your trip
Practical links for the trip. They do not affect the ranking.
- Stay in Airlonia Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Airolo Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 21 km
- Blue pistes
- <1 km
- Red pistes
- 9 km
- Black pistes
- 11 km
- Lifts
- 8
- Top station
- 2'253 m
- Base
- 1'179 m
- Vertical
- 1'073 m
- Longest mapped run
- 4.1 km, from 2'088 m down to 1'179 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Ticino
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Airolo Pesciüm are
Red: gentler than most. Black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 0.4 km | 19 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 6 · 8.9 km | 34 % | 38 % | gentler than most |
| Black | 8 · 10.0 km | 52 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 66 % on (04) Pista La Doris (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 15 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Airolo Pesciüm (19.2 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour.
Measured along the line OpenStreetMap draws, on terrain without snow: snow and grooming soften steps, and a piste can run beside its line. A gradient of 100 % is 45°. Colours as OpenStreetMap maps them, which can differ from the lift company’s piste map: check it before you go.
Piste lines from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo. A piste wrong or missing? Fix the map
Mountain restaurants in Airolo Pesciüm
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Airolo Pesciüm, highest first.
Opening times change with the season and the snow: check with the restaurant or the lift company before you go.
From OpenStreetMap, read 25 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A place missing or closed? Fix the map
Ski schools at Airolo Pesciüm
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Scuola Svizzera di Sci Airolo – S. Gottardo | CHF 200 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Airolo Pesciüm. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Scuola Svizzera di Sci Airolo – S. Gottardo Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- CHF 200 for five half-days; from age 4
- Private lessons
- CHF 70 per hour, CHF 140 for two hours, CHF 200 for three hours; for one person
- Times
- children’s group lessons 09:30–12:15; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
Prices as the schools publish them, the low-season price where they vary; a lift ticket and rental are not included. Skiboard sells no lessons and earns nothing from a booking. Group or private lesson, and what ski schools charge across Switzerland
About Airolo Pesciüm
Ski areas near Airolo Pesciüm
Airolo Pesciüm in numbers
41 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Airolo, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
The Federal Statistical Office publishes no hotel figures for Airolo: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
41 % of the 1'381 homes in Airolo are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1994 (Airolo - Pesciüm); half of them date from 1994 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airolo - Pesciüm | cable car | 1994 | 1'271 m | 562 m | Valbianca SA |
| Pesciüm - Sasso della Boggia | cable car | 1994 | 793 m | 324 m | Valbianca SA |
| Ravina - Varozzei | chairlift | 1994 | 1'367 m | 496 m | Valbianca SA |
Commune figures count every hotel guest, not only skiers, and holiday flats are not in the hotel statistics. A licence year is when the installation’s current federal licence starts: usually the year it opened, sometimes a renewal.
Sources: Federal Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence
Featured in
Catalog facts from OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Where an SLF station is nearby, the app shows its measured snow, and the day-pass price is read from the operator’s own shop or tariff; for opening status, check the operator.
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