Brambrüesch
Brambrüesch is a local ski area in Graubünden with 10 km of mapped pistes and 5 lifts, between 1'184 m and 2'171 m. Mostly red, 2 km black. Nearby: Chur, Malix.
Rank Brambrüesch against every ski area near Chur for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 5 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Schaftäli (2'166 m), 8.8 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station TAM3. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 0 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 0 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Malix (1'185 m, 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 11 min | 7 minChur, Brambrüeschb./Stadthalle · direct |
| St. Gallen | 1h 18 | 1h 35Chur, Brambrüeschb./Stadthalle · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 35 | 2h 02Chur, Brambrüeschb./Stadthalle · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 46 | 2h 25Chur, Brambrüeschb./Stadthalle · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 47 | 1h 29Chur · direct |
| Winterthur | 1h 47 | 1h 59Chur · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 51 | 1h 48Chur · 1 change |
| Bern | 2h 51 | 2h 35Chur · 1 change |
| Basel | 3h 01 | 2h 30Chur · direct |
| Lausanne | 3h 38 | 3h 50Chur · 1 change |
| Geneva | 4h 20 | 4h 32Chur · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 21 | 4h 42Chur · 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 Brambrüesch Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 10 km
- Blue pistes
- 2 km
- Red pistes
- 5 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 5
- Top station
- 2'171 m
- Base
- 1'184 m
- Vertical
- 987 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.2 km, from 2'171 m down to 1'184 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Brambrüesch are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 2.3 km | 35 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 2 · 5.2 km | 39 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 1 · 2.4 km | 50 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 50 % on 1 (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 5 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Brambrüesch (9.9 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 Brambrüesch
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Brambrüesch, highest first.
- berg.baiz Restaurant · about 1'610 m · Map
- Panoramahotel Malixerhof Restaurant · about 1'610 m · Map
- Battagliahütte Restaurant · about 1'590 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 Brambrüesch
Ski areas near Brambrüesch
How popular Brambrüesch is
Blick Winter Awards 2025/26: 2nd in “Best ski area: tiny”
What polls say
- Blick Winter Awards 2025/26: 2nd in “Best ski area: tiny”. 64'000 Blick readers voted, among 68 Swiss areas in five categories.
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.
Brambrüesch in numbers
118'853 winter hotel nights · 18 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Chur and Churwalden, 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 Chur sold 118'853 overnight stays, +13.0 % on 2024/25. 68 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'182 beds in 19 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 145'147; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 42 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 48 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 13 %, United Kingdom 10 %, United States 4 % and Australia 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 118'853 | 68 % | 1'182 |
| 2024/25 | 105'189 | 65 % | 1'182 |
| 2023/24 | 95'978 | 63 % | 1'067 |
| 2022/23 | 84'470 | 56 % | 1'044 |
| 2021/22 | 69'105 | 45 % | 996 |
| 2020/21 | 32'007 | 21 % | 1'059 |
| 2019/20 | 60'739 | 42 % | 1'055 |
| 2018/19 | 79'625 | 56 % | 1'028 |
| 2017/18 | 72'108 | 50 % | 1'029 |
| 2016/17 | 66'867 | 44 % | 1'075 |
Homes
18 % of the 25'047 homes in Chur and Churwalden are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2006 (Chur - Känzeli); half of them date from 1998 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chur - Känzeli | cable car | 2006 | 1'099 m | 594 m | Bergbahnen Chur - Dreibündenstein AG |
| Känzeli - Brambrüesch | gondola | 1998 | 1'394 m | 407 m | Bergbahnen Chur - Dreibündenstein AG |
| Hühnerköpfe - Furggabüel | chairlift | 1969 | 1'022 m | 224 m | Bergbahnen Chur - Dreibündenstein 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.
Skigebiet Brambrüesch · Domaine skiable Brambrüesch · Comprensorio sciistico Brambrüesch