Crêt-du-Puy
Crêt-du-Puy is a local ski area in Neuchâtel with 6 km of mapped pistes and 2 lifts, between 870 m and 1'256 m. Mostly blue, 1 km black. Nearby: Le Pâquier, Lignières, Villiers.
Rank Crêt-du-Puy against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Col du Chasseral (1'455 m), 4 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station CSL2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 0 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Le Pâquier NE (949 m, 1.4 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
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 46 min | 1h 32estimate |
| Basel | 1h 19 | 2h 10Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 19 | 2h 15estimate |
| Lucerne | 1h 51 | 2h 20Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 2 changes |
| Zug | 2h 07 | 2h 43Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 09 | 2h 19Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 10 | 2h 09Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 13 | 2h 10Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 17 | 2h 25Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 2h 31 | 2h 36Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 01 | 3h 16Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 1 change |
| Chur | 3h 11 | 3h 36Le Pâquier NE, Crêt-du-Puy · 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 Crêt-du-Puy Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 6 km
- Blue pistes
- 4 km
- Red pistes
- <1 km
- Black pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 2
- Top station
- 1'256 m
- Base
- 870 m
- Vertical
- 386 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2 km, from 1'256 m down to 870 m
- Canton
- Neuchâtel
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Crêt-du-Puy are
Blue: gentler than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 3 · 4.1 km | 20 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 2 · 0.8 km | 25 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 1 · 1.2 km | 38 % | 51 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 6 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Crêt-du-Puy (6.1 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
About Crêt-du-Puy
Ski areas near Crêt-du-Puy
Crêt-du-Puy in numbers
13 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Val-de-Ruz, 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 Val-de-Ruz: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
13 % of the 8'724 homes in Val-de-Ruz are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
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
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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