Ebenalp-Horn
Ebenalp-Horn is a local ski area in Appenzell Innerrhoden with 10 km of mapped pistes and 6 lifts, between 846 m and 1'701 m. Mostly red, <1 km black. Nearby: Schwende, Wasserauen, Weissbad.
Rank Ebenalp-Horn against every ski area near St. Gallen for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Ebenalp-Horn at a comparable elevation (within 500 m of the ski area's mid-mountain), so Skiboard shows no measured snow for this ski area.
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 8°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 8°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Ebenalp (AI) (1'640 m, 0.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| St. Gallen | 23 min | 53 minWasserauen · 1 change |
| Chur | 58 min | 2h 03Wasserauen · 4 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 06 | 1h 38Wasserauen · 1 change |
| Zürich | 1h 16 | 2h 08Wasserauen · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 16 | 1h 54Wasserauen · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 19 | 2h 41Wasserauen · 3 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 39 | 3h 06Wasserauen · 1 change |
| Basel | 2h 34 | 3h 08Wasserauen · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 47 | 3h 13Wasserauen · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 43 | 4h 28Wasserauen · 1 change |
| Geneva | 4h 29 | 5h 10Wasserauen · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 30 | 5h 20Wasserauen · 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.
Plan your trip
Practical links for the trip. They do not affect the ranking.
- Stay in Ebenalp-Horn Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 10 km
- Blue pistes
- 1 km
- Red pistes
- 7 km
- Black pistes
- <1 km
- Ski routes
- <1 km
- Lifts
- 6
- Top station
- 1'701 m
- Base
- 846 m
- Vertical
- 854 m
- Longest mapped run
- 4.2 km, from 1'701 m down to 846 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Appenzell Innerrhoden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Ebenalp-Horn are
Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 0.9 km | 20 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 7 · 7.0 km | 36 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 1 · 0.7 km | 59 % | 51 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 10 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Ebenalp-Horn (8.6 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 Ebenalp-Horn
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Ebenalp-Horn, highest first.
- Berggasthaus Ebenalp Restaurant · about 1'640 m · Map
- Timbar am Skilift Chlus Restaurant · about 1'540 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 Ebenalp-Horn
Ski areas near Ebenalp-Horn
All ski areas in Appenzell Innerrhoden
Ebenalp-Horn in numbers
13 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Schwende-Rüte, 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 Schwende-Rüte: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
13 % of the 3'100 homes in Schwende-Rüte are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1955 (Wasserauen - Ebenalp); half of them date from 1955 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wasserauen - Ebenalp | cable car | 1955 | – | – | Luftseilbahn Wasserauen-Ebenalp 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 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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