Axalp
Axalp is a local ski area in Bern with 12 km of mapped pistes and 4 lifts, between 1'423 m and 1'937 m. Mostly blue, 2 km black, 2 km ski routes. Nearby: Brienz.
Rank Axalp 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, 2.2 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Schmidigen-Bidmeren (2'111 m), 5.5 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station FIR2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Axalp (1'481 m, 0.8 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
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 51 min | 2h 09Axalp, Sportbahnen · 1 change |
| Bern | 1h 01 | 2h 09Axalp, Sportbahnen · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 11 | 2h 43Axalp, Sportbahnen · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 33 | 3h 05Axalp, Sportbahnen · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 42 | 3h 28Axalp, Sportbahnen · 4 changes |
| Basel | 1h 51 | 3h 13Axalp, Sportbahnen · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 53 | 3h 35Axalp, Sportbahnen · 4 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 01 | 3h 26Axalp, Sportbahnen · 3 changes |
| Chur | 2h 06 | 4h 35Axalp, Sportbahnen · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 20 | 4h 36Axalp, Sportbahnen · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 50 | 4h 08Axalp, Sportbahnen · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 51 | 4h 18Axalp, Sportbahnen · 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 Axalp Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 12 km
- Blue pistes
- 8 km
- Red pistes
- 1 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Ski routes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 4
- Top station
- 1'937 m
- Base
- 1'423 m
- Vertical
- 514 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2.9 km, from 1'937 m down to 1'468 m
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Axalp are
Blue: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 7.5 km | 32 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 1 · 1.0 km | 55 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 2 · 1.8 km | 47 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 55 % on Stern (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 8 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Axalp (10.3 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 Axalp
Ski areas near Axalp
Axalp in numbers
28'353 winter hotel nights · 38 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Brienz (BE), 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 Brienz (BE) sold 28'353 overnight stays, +8.5 % on 2024/25. 30 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 600 beds in 11 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 87'512; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 23 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 69 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 10 %, United Kingdom 3 %, France 2 % and Netherlands 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 28'353 | 30 % | 600 |
| 2024/25 | 26'123 | 32 % | 616 |
| 2023/24 | 24'850 | 28 % | 613 |
| 2022/23 | 22'121 | 30 % | 613 |
| 2021/22 | 16'616 | 22 % | 600 |
| 2020/21 | 14'900 | 19 % | 580 |
| 2019/20 | 6'155 | 11 % | 551 |
| 2018/19 | 13'659 | 24 % | 557 |
| 2017/18 | 13'725 | 23 % | 557 |
| 2016/17 | 11'823 | 21 % | 555 |
Homes
38 % of the 2'775 homes in Brienz (BE) are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1998 (Axalp - Windegg); half of them date from 1998 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axalp - Windegg | chairlift | 1998 | 1'100 m | 380 m | Sportbahnen Axalp Windegg AG |
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 · 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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