Arolla
Arolla is a ski destination in Valais with 16 km of mapped pistes and 6 lifts, between 1'982 m and 2'880 m. Mostly blue, 2 km black.
Rank Arolla against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Les Fontanesses (2'847 m), 2.2 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station ARO2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Arolla (1'981 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 .
Adult day pass
CHF 50 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: valdherens.ch, “Espace Dent Blanche 1 jour, Adultes 21-64 ans”, read .
For the size: the 2 areas on this pass map 42 km of pistes and 1'240 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 62 for . This pass is 19% less.
Skiboard’s comparison, a curve through the 141 day passes it read for that day; the km are what OpenStreetMap maps, which an operator’s own total can exceed. It says nothing about which lifts run on the day.
Day-pass prices this weekend at every Swiss ski area
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 1h 35 | 2h 42Arolla, Magine · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 54 | 2h 49Arolla, Magine · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 56 | 3h 32Arolla, Magine · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 59 | 3h 42Arolla, Magine · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 24 | 3h 56Arolla, Magine · 4 changes |
| Zug | 2h 43 | 4h 24Arolla, Magine · 5 changes |
| Chur | 3h 00 | 5h 18Arolla, Magine · 4 changes |
| Zürich | 3h 05 | 3h 54Arolla, Magine · 3 changes |
| Basel | 3h 05 | 3h 58Arolla, Magine · 4 changes |
| Winterthur | 3h 07 | 4h 26Arolla, Magine · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 13 | 4h 10Arolla, Magine · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 29 | 5h 19Arolla, Magine · 4 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 Arolla Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 16 km
- Blue pistes
- 12 km
- Red pistes
- 2 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 6
- Top station
- 2'880 m
- Base
- 1'982 m
- Vertical
- 898 m
- Longest mapped run
- 4.3 km, from 2'874 m down to 1'982 m
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Arolla are
Blue and black: typical. Red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 8 · 11.1 km | 30 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 7 · 4.8 km | 47 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 3 · 2.4 km | 52 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 58 % on Tsijiore-Nouve (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 18 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Arolla (18.3 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 Arolla
Ski areas near Arolla
Arolla in numbers
18'185 winter hotel nights · 64 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Evolène, 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 Evolène sold 18'185 overnight stays, +2.0 % on 2024/25. 43 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 368 beds in 11 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 21'636; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 45 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 84 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then France 6 %, Germany 2 %, Belgium 2 % and United Kingdom 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 18'185 | 43 % | 368 |
| 2024/25 | 17'823 | 38 % | 396 |
| 2023/24 | 19'540 | 39 % | 403 |
| 2022/23 | 16'962 | 38 % | 407 |
| 2021/22 | 15'873 | 32 % | 409 |
| 2020/21 | 12'358 | 29 % | 376 |
| 2019/20 | 10'563 | 31 % | 403 |
| 2018/19 | 12'118 | 26 % | 405 |
| 2017/18 | 15'099 | 33 % | 405 |
| 2016/17 | 10'573 | 25 % | 404 |
Homes
64 % of the 2'478 homes in Evolène are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Upscale homes in Evolène are offered at about CHF 6'600 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +2.1 % on a year, +2.4 % a year over ten years.
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 · UBS Alpine Property Focus
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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