Appenzell
Appenzell is a local ski area in Appenzell Innerrhoden with 6 km of mapped pistes and 1 lift, between 812 m and 1'164 m. Mostly blue and red, <1 km black.
Rank Appenzell against every ski area near St. Gallen for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Appenzell at a comparable elevation (within 500 m of the ski area's mid-mountain), so Skiboard shows no measured snow for this ski area.
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Appenzell (780 m, 1.2 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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| St. Gallen | 19 min | 43 minAppenzell · direct |
| Chur | 1h 02 | 1h 52Appenzell · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 04 | 1h 29Appenzell · 1 change |
| Zürich | 1h 15 | 1h 58Appenzell · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 15 | 1h 44Appenzell · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 19 | 2h 32Appenzell · 3 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 39 | 2h 56Appenzell · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 31 | 2h 59Appenzell · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 47 | 3h 03Appenzell · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 43 | 4h 18Appenzell · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 30 | 5h 00Appenzell · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 31 | 5h 10Appenzell · 2 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 Appenzell Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 6 km
- Blue pistes
- 2 km
- Red pistes
- 3 km
- Black pistes
- <1 km
- Lifts
- 1
- Top station
- 1'164 m
- Base
- 812 m
- Vertical
- 352 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2 km, from 1'164 m down to 812 m
- Canton
- Appenzell Innerrhoden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Appenzell are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 2.0 km | 34 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 2 · 2.8 km | 29 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 1 · 0.5 km | 32 % | 51 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 4 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Appenzell (5.3 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
About Appenzell
Ski areas near Appenzell
All ski areas in Appenzell Innerrhoden
Appenzell in numbers
12'180 winter hotel nights · 9 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Appenzell, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
In winter 2025/26 (November to April) the hotels of Appenzell sold 12'180 overnight stays, +15.7 % on 2024/25. 25 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 479 beds in 11 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 36'990; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 22 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 84 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 6 %, United States 3 %, Austria 1 % and United Kingdom 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 12'180 | 25 % | 479 |
| 2024/25 | 10'526 | 23 % | 479 |
| 2023/24 | 11'679 | 27 % | 452 |
| 2022/23 | 10'684 | 23 % | 452 |
| 2021/22 | 10'287 | 23 % | 482 |
| 2020/21 | 8'898 | 18 % | 476 |
| 2019/20 | 8'349 | 21 % | 470 |
| 2018/19 | 12'089 | 23 % | 466 |
| 2017/18 | 11'008 | 23 % | 466 |
| 2016/17 | 11'852 | 25 % | 466 |
Homes
9 % of the 3'202 homes in Appenzell are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
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 Statistical Office, hotel statistics (HESTA) · Federal Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory
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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