Cimetta
Cimetta is a ski destination in Ticino with 16 lifts, between 202 m and 1'653 m. Nearby: Avegno, Brione sopra Minusio, Locarno, Orselina.
No lift-served skiing at Cimetta since 2019: the ski club stopped and the ski lifts were taken down. The cable car still runs for walks and snowshoeing. Cardada, history
Your trip
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 1h 43 | 2h 54Locarno, Debarcadero · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 53 | 2h 04Locarno, Debarcadero · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 01 | 1h 52Locarno, Debarcadero · 3 changes |
| Bern | 2h 24 | 3h 18Locarno, Debarcadero · 4 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 25 | 2h 17Locarno, Debarcadero · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 33 | 2h 33Locarno, Debarcadero · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 37 | 3h 17Locarno, Debarcadero · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 38 | 2h 44Locarno, Debarcadero · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 03 | 4h 38Locarno, Debarcadero · 3 changes |
| Basel | 3h 11 | 3h 18Locarno, Debarcadero · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 20 | 5h 17Locarno, Debarcadero · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 22 | 5h 12Locarno, Debarcadero · 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.
The mountain
Facts
- Top station
- 1'653 m
- Base
- 202 m
- Vertical
- 1'451 m
- Canton
- Ticino
Piste map
About Cimetta
Ski areas near Cimetta
Cimetta in numbers
69 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Orselina, 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 Orselina: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
69 % of the 1'228 homes in Orselina are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
2 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2000 (Orselina - Cardada); half of them date from 1955 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orselina - Cardada | cable car | 2000 | 2'051 m | 946 m | Cardada Impianti Turistici SA |
| Cardada - Cimetta | chairlift | 1955 | 919 m | 314 m | Cardada Impianti Turistici SA |
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
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 Cimetta · Domaine skiable Cimetta · Comprensorio sciistico Cimetta