Belalp
Belalp is a ski destination in Valais with 40 km of mapped pistes and 13 lifts, between 1'332 m and 3'101 m. Mostly blue and black, 10 km black. Nearby: Blatten.
Rank Belalp against every ski area near Bern 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 Belalp (2'554 m), 1.9 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station BEL2. 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 Bruchji (2'300 m, 0.4 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 70 for . The operator’s online price for that day when it was read: an area that prices by date or demand may charge more or less when you buy. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: shop.belalp.ch, “Skipass Blatten - Belalp 1 Tag Erwachsener”, read .
For the size: the area maps 40 km of pistes and 1'769 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 71 for . This pass is 2% 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
Parking at Belalp
Main car park: Parkhaus Blatten bei Naters · 230 spaces · CHF 16 for a ski day · belalp.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
5 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 5 car parks by the lifts of Belalp, the biggest first.
- Underground car park paid · 60 m from the Gondelbahn Blatten - Chiematte · piste 40 m away · Map
- Car park paid · 50 m from the Gondelbahn Blatten - Chiematte · piste 200 m away · Map
- Rastplatz "Stalden" Car park · free · 260 m from a lift · Map
- Car park by the Luftseilbahn Blatten - Belalp · piste 120 m away · Map
- Car park free · 350 m from a lift · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 30 | 1h 36Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 34 | 2h 43Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 53 | 3h 11Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 00 | 2h 01Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 1 change |
| Zürich | 2h 16 | 2h 33Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 25 | 2h 56Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 2 changes |
| Chur | 2h 28 | 4h 05Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 3 changes |
| Basel | 2h 33 | 2h 41Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 2h 35 | 3h 03Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 40 | 2h 44Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 43 | 2h 57Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 56 | 4h 06Blatten b. Naters,Luftseilbahn · 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 Belalp Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Blatten-Belalp Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 40 km
- Blue pistes
- 20 km
- Red pistes
- 9 km
- Black pistes
- 10 km
- Ski routes
- <1 km
- Lifts
- 13
- Top station
- 3'101 m
- Base
- 1'332 m
- Vertical
- 1'769 m
- Longest mapped run
- 11.7 km, from 3'089 m down to 1'329 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 6
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Belalp are
Blue and black: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 14 · 18.1 km | 21 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 9 · 8.3 km | 37 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 8 · 9.6 km | 39 % | 51 % | gentler than most |
The steepest 100 m: 67 % on 1 Tunnel (black).
Flat stretches 4
- Hexenland Blue · 40 % of its 570 m nearly flat: on a snowboard you may have to push · Map
- 11 Färichpista Blue · 37 % of its 510 m nearly flat: on a snowboard you may have to push · Map
- 23 Stafel Blue · 35 % of its 530 m nearly flat: on a snowboard you may have to push · Map
- 4 Häx unten Blue · 33 % of its 1.5 km nearly flat: on a snowboard you may have to push · Map
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 31 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Belalp (36.0 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 Belalp
OpenStreetMap maps 6 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Belalp, highest first.
- Hexenbar Bar · about 2'670 m · Map
- Riccos Iglu Restaurant · about 2'290 m · Map
- Restaurant Fleschtola Restaurant · Map
Show 3 more
- Restaurant Kristall Restaurant · about 2'150 m · Map
- Hotel Belalp Restaurant · Map
- Tee-Salon Café · 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
Ski schools at Belalp
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Schneesportschule Belalp | CHF 160 for two hours | weekdays only |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Belalp. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Schneesportschule Belalp Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 90 per half-day (3 h), CHF 280 for five half-days; adults CHF 90 per half-day, adults CHF 290 for 5 half-days; from age 2
- Private lessons
- CHF 80 per hour, CHF 160 for two hours
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 10:00–13:00 and 13:30–16:00; group lessons on weekdays only
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 Belalp
Ski areas near Belalp
How popular Belalp is
Belalp Bahnen AG counted 267'718 winter first entries (“Ersteintritte / Skifahrertage Winter”) in fiscal year 2025/26.
How many ski here
Belalp Bahnen AG counted 267'718 winter first entries (“Ersteintritte / Skifahrertage Winter”) in fiscal year 2025/26. Annual report 2025/26
Each of the twenty areas Seilbahnen Schweiz counts had at least 411'000 skier days in winter 2025/26.
What polls say
- Blick Winter Awards 2025/26: 1st in “Best ski area: small and fine”. 64'000 Blick readers voted, among 68 Swiss areas in five categories.
A skier day or first entry is one person on the lifts for one day, whatever the ticket. Skiboard adds no score of its own: the counts are what Seilbahnen Schweiz and the lift companies publish, the placings are polls run by others. Searches and social-media posts follow the news more than skiers, so they are left out.
Belalp in numbers
32 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Naters, 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 Naters: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
32 % of the 7'379 homes in Naters are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
Belalp Bahnen AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 9.8 million revenue, CHF 9.1 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 3.4 million and CHF 469'000 invested. Its shares trade on OTC-X. Annual report 2025/26
5 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2013 (Blatten - Chiematta); half of them date from 1997 or earlier.
The 5 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blatten - Chiematta | gondola | 2013 | 1'892 m | 716 m | – |
| Bruchegg - Hohbiel | chairlift | 2006 | 2'326 m | 527 m | – |
| Bäll - Schönbiel | chairlift | 1997 | 1'199 m | 252 m | – |
| Bruchegg - Schönbiel | chairlift | 1997 | 585 m | 161 m | – |
| Blatten - Belalp | cable car | 1972 | 1'767 m | 763 m | – |
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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