Diavolezza-Lagalb
Diavolezza-Lagalb is a ski destination in Graubünden with 19 km of mapped pistes and 7 lifts, between 2'084 m and 3'003 m. Mostly red, 4 km black. Nearby: Pontresina.
Rank Diavolezza-Lagalb 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 2 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Motta Bianca (2'447 m), 4.1 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station BER2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, -2°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, -2°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Bernina / Curtinatsch (2'090 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 54.50 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.
Source: booking.engadin.ch, “Diavolezza / Lagalb, 1 Tag, Erwachsene”, read .
For the size: the area maps 19 km of pistes and 920 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 49 for . This pass is 12% more.
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 Ikon Pass (7 days a season): Ikon Pass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 1h 13 | 2h 26Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 17 | 3h 59Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 2 changes |
| Zug | 2h 36 | 4h 23Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 3 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 43 | 4h 45Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 50 | 3h 46Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 51 | 4h 16Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 55 | 4h 05Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 3 changes |
| Bern | 3h 23 | 4h 52Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 3 changes |
| Basel | 3h 41 | 4h 47Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 4h 15 | 6h 07Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 4 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 51 | 6h 49Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 4 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 54 | 6h 59Bernina Diavolezza, Bahnhof · 4 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 Pontresina Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 19 km
- Red pistes
- 15 km
- Black pistes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 7
- Top station
- 3'003 m
- Base
- 2'084 m
- Vertical
- 920 m
- Longest mapped run
- 4.5 km, from 2'974 m down to 2'087 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 1
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Diavolezza-Lagalb are
Red and black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | 6 · 15.0 km | 36 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 3 · 4.2 km | 51 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 55 % on 3 Schwarzer Hang (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 9 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Diavolezza-Lagalb (19.2 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 Diavolezza-Lagalb
OpenStreetMap maps one place to eat or drink up the mountain in Diavolezza-Lagalb.
- Berghaus Diavolezza Restaurant · about 2'980 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
Engadin St. Moritz ski region
One day pass covers these 4 areas, 141 km of mapped pistes in all.
About Diavolezza-Lagalb
Ski areas near Diavolezza-Lagalb
Diavolezza-Lagalb in numbers
196'320 winter hotel nights · 57 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Pontresina, 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 Pontresina sold 196'320 overnight stays, -1.1 % on 2024/25. 65 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 2'561 beds in 22 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 203'281; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 49 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 56 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 16 %, Italy 5 %, United States 4 % and United Kingdom 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 196'320 | 65 % | 2'561 |
| 2024/25 | 198'422 | 63 % | 2'563 |
| 2023/24 | 184'467 | 66 % | 2'461 |
| 2022/23 | 165'932 | 58 % | 2'398 |
| 2021/22 | 155'268 | 60 % | 2'241 |
| 2020/21 | 132'163 | 52 % | 1'940 |
| 2019/20 | 119'106 | 56 % | 1'939 |
| 2018/19 | 151'986 | 57 % | 2'389 |
| 2017/18 | 153'819 | 55 % | 2'379 |
| 2016/17 | 144'831 | 56 % | 2'379 |
Homes
57 % of the 2'339 homes in Pontresina are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Upscale homes in Engadin / St. Moritz are offered at about CHF 24'000 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +7.1 % on a year, +3.3 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
Diavolezza Lagalb AG, fiscal year 2024/25: CHF 9.4 million revenue, CHF 5.2 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 1.3 million and CHF 814'777 invested. Annual report 2024/25
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1994 (Curtinatsch - Piz Lagalb); half of them date from 1990 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curtinatsch - Piz Lagalb | cable car | 1994 | 2'342 m | 785 m | Engadin St. Moritz Mountains AG |
| Diavolezzafirn | chairlift | 1990 | 939 m | 220 m | Engadin St. Moritz Mountains AG |
| Bernina - Diavolezza | cable car | 1956 | 3'578 m | 883 m | Engadin St. Moritz Mountains 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 · UBS Alpine Property Focus
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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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