Balme - Vallorcine
Balme - Vallorcine is a ski destination in Valais with 31 km of mapped pistes and 9 lifts, between 1'262 m and 2'252 m. Mostly blue and red, 1 km black. Nearby: Chamonix, Trient, Vallorcine.
Rank Balme - Vallorcine against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 14 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station L'Ecreuleuse (2'252 m), 8.7 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station FNH2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Emosson (1'923 m, 5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 1h 10 | 2h 03estimate |
| Geneva | 1h 15 | 2h 10estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 19 | 2h 15estimate |
| Bern | 2h 01 | 3h 09estimate |
| Lucerne | 2h 48 | 4h 10estimate |
| Zug | 3h 09 | 4h 38estimate |
| Zürich | 3h 10 | 4h 39estimate |
| Basel | 3h 12 | 4h 42estimate |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 17 | 4h 48estimate |
| Winterthur | 3h 28 | 5h 02estimate |
| Chur | 3h 34 | 5h 10estimate |
| St. Gallen | 3h 56 | 5h 39estimate |
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 Vallorcine Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 31 km
- Blue pistes
- 14 km
- Red pistes
- 16 km
- Black pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 9
- Top station
- 2'252 m
- Base
- 1'262 m
- Vertical
- 990 m
- Longest mapped run
- 8 km, from 2'192 m down to 1'262 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 5
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Balme - Vallorcine are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | 1 · 0.6 km | 39 % | 38 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 39 % on Solonges Haut (red).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 1 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Balme - Vallorcine (0.6 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour. Only the Swiss side: swisstopo’s model stops at the border.
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 Balme - Vallorcine
OpenStreetMap maps 5 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Balme - Vallorcine, highest first.
- Alpage de Balme Restaurant · about 1'980 m · Map
- Les Ecuries de Charamillon Restaurant · about 1'920 m · Map
- Le Chalet de Charamillon Restaurant · about 1'830 m · Map
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
About Balme - Vallorcine
Ski areas near Balme - Vallorcine
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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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