Elsigenalp
Elsigenalp is a ski destination in Bern with 28 km of mapped pistes and 11 lifts, between 1'323 m and 2'283 m. Mostly blue and red, 3 km black. Nearby: Achsete.
Rank Elsigenalp against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 4.8 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Elsige (2'143 m), 1.8 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station ELS2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Oeschinensee (1'681 m, 5.8 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 49 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: adelboden-lenk.ch, “1 Tag Elsigen-Metsch, Erwachsen”, read .
For the size: the area maps 28 km of pistes and 960 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 53 for . This pass is 7% 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
On the AlpsPass: AlpsPass areas this weekend
Parking at Elsigenalp
Main car park: Parkplatz Talstation Elsigbach · CHF 5 for a ski day · elsigen-metsch.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
3 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 3 car parks by the lifts of Elsigenalp, the biggest first.
- Car park by the Skilift Metschalp · by a piste · Map
- Car park paid · by the Elsigbach-Elsigenalp · by a piste · Map
- Car park 40 m from the Skilift Metschalp · by a piste · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 58 min | 1h 22Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 1h 26 | 2h 54Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 29 | 3h 06Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 3 changes |
| Zug | 1h 50 | 3h 13Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 08 | 2h 31Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 10 | 2h 29Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 11 | 3h 36Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 13 | 4h 01Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 18 | 2h 56Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 30 | 3h 03Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 2 changes |
| Chur | 2h 43 | 4h 18Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 01 | 3h 57Achseten, Elsigbach/Luftseilb. · 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 Achsete Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Adelboden-Lenk Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 28 km
- Blue pistes
- 11 km
- Red pistes
- 15 km
- Black pistes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 11
- Top station
- 2'283 m
- Base
- 1'323 m
- Vertical
- 960 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.2 km, from 2'283 m down to 1'323 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Elsigenalp are
Red and black: typical. Blue: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 9 · 10.0 km | 32 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 16 · 14.8 km | 39 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 3 · 2.6 km | 47 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 55 % on 113 Steilhangpiste (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 28 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Elsigenalp (27.4 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 Elsigenalp
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Elsigenalp, highest first.
- Elsighütte Restaurant · about 1'930 m · Map
- Berghaus Elsigenalp Restaurant · about 1'800 m · Map
- Berghaus Höchst Restaurant · about 1'560 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
Ski schools at Elsigenalp
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Ski- & Snowboardschule Frutigen | CHF 220 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Elsigenalp. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Ski- & Snowboardschule Frutigen
- Group lessons
- children CHF 40 per half-day (2 h), CHF 140 for five half-days; from age 4
- Private lessons
- CHF 80 per hour, CHF 150 for two hours, CHF 220 for three hours, CHF 350 for a day (5 h); for up to 2 people; each further person CHF 10
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 13:30–15:30; 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
Adelboden-Lenk ski region
One day pass covers these 5 areas, 153 km of mapped pistes in all.
About Elsigenalp
Ski areas near Elsigenalp
Elsigenalp in numbers
19 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Frutigen, 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 Frutigen: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
19 % of the 3'961 homes in Frutigen 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: 1967 (Elsigbach - Elsigenalp); half of them date from 1967 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elsigbach - Elsigenalp | cable car | 1967 | – | – | Elsigenalpbahnen AG Frutigen, Luftseilbahn und Skilifte |
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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