Confin / San Bernardino
Confin / San Bernardino is a ski destination in Graubünden with 20 km of mapped pistes and 6 lifts, between 1'640 m and 2'504 m. Mostly blue and red, 4 km black. Nearby: San Bernardino.
Rank Confin / San Bernardino against every ski area near Chur 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 Pian Grand (2'384 m), 4.8 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station MES2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for S. Bernardino (1'639 m, 1.7 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 46.55 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: tickets.sanbernardino-sportarena.com, “1 Tag Erwachsene”, read .
For the size: the area maps 20 km of pistes and 864 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 48 for . This pass is 4% 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
Parking at Confin / San Bernardino
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Confin / San Bernardino, the biggest first.
- Car park paid · 320 m from the Fracch-Confin · Map
- Car park 60 m from the Fracch-Confin · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · 230 m from the Fracch-Confin · piste 280 m away · Map
- Car park by the Fracch-Confin · by a piste · Map
- Car park 60 m from the Fracch-Confin · piste 110 m away · Map
- Car park by the Fracch-Confin · piste 50 m away · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 1h 01 | 1h 18S. Bernardino, Villaggio · direct |
| Lucerne | 1h 43 | 2h 34S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 44 | 2h 22S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 1 change |
| St. Gallen | 2h 01 | 2h 51S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 05 | 2h 38S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 12 | 3h 01S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 13 | 3h 08S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 35 | 3h 45S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Basel | 3h 05 | 3h 43S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 3h 11 | 4h 59S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 48 | 5h 41S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 50 | 5h 51S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 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 San Bernardino Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail San Bernardino Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 20 km
- Blue pistes
- 8 km
- Red pistes
- 8 km
- Black pistes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 6
- Top station
- 2'504 m
- Base
- 1'640 m
- Vertical
- 864 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.8 km, from 2'494 m down to 1'640 m
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Confin / San Bernardino are
Blue, red and black: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 4 · 7.0 km | 39 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 7 · 8.2 km | 45 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 3 · 4.2 km | 63 % | 51 % | steeper than most |
The steepest 100 m: 65 % on 14 (black).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 14 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Confin / San Bernardino (19.3 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
Ski schools at Confin / San Bernardino
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Fullski San Bernardino | no private lessons | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Confin / San Bernardino. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Fullski San Bernardino independent school
- Group lessons
- children CHF 60 per half-day (2.5 h), children CHF 110 per day, CHF 285 for five half-days; from age 3; groups of up to 6
- Private lessons
- no private lessons
- Times
- children’s group lessons on Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30–13:00 and 14:00–16:00; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
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 Confin / San Bernardino
Ski areas near Confin / San Bernardino
Confin / San Bernardino in numbers
71 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Mesocco, 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 Mesocco: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
71 % of the 2'347 homes in Mesocco 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: 1993 (Alpe Fracch - Confin Basso); half of them date from 1984 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpe Fracch - Confin Basso | gondola | 1993 | 1'165 m | 317 m | San Bernardino SA Impianti Turistici |
| Confin Basso - Alp de Confin | chairlift | 1984 | 1'333 m | 365 m | San Bernardino SA Impianti Turistici |
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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