Engstligenalp
Engstligenalp is a local ski area in Bern with 11 km of mapped pistes and 8 lifts, between 1'946 m and 2'354 m. Mostly blue and red, 2 km black. Nearby: Adelboden.
Rank Engstligenalp 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, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Engstligenalp (2'304 m), 0.8 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station ADE2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 0 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 0 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Lohnerhütte SAC (2'171 m, 4.9 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 47 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 Engstligenalp, Erwachsen”, read .
For the size: the area maps 11 km of pistes and 409 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 38 for . This pass is 23% 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 AlpsPass: AlpsPass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 07 | 1h 40Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 23 | 3h 02Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 3 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 39 | 2h 49Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 4 changes |
| Zug | 2h 00 | 3h 17Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 5 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 05 | 3h 44Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 06 | 3h 54Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 3 changes |
| Basel | 2h 17 | 2h 49Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 20 | 2h 41Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 28 | 3h 03Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 40 | 3h 11Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 3 changes |
| Chur | 2h 50 | 4h 11Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 10 | 3h 50Adelboden, Unter dem Birg · 5 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 Adelboden 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
- 11 km
- Blue pistes
- 5 km
- Red pistes
- 4 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 8
- Top station
- 2'354 m
- Base
- 1'946 m
- Vertical
- 409 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2.1 km, from 2'354 m down to 1'987 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Engstligenalp are
Blue and red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 5.2 km | 33 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 3 · 3.9 km | 42 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 2 · 2.0 km | 43 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 50 % on 100 Dossen (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 1
- 100 Dossen Black · 398 m down over 1.3 km, steepest 100 m at 50 % · Map
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 10 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Engstligenalp (11.0 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 Engstligenalp
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Engstligenalp, highest first.
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
Adelboden-Lenk ski region
One day pass covers these 5 areas, 153 km of mapped pistes in all.
About Engstligenalp
Ski areas near Engstligenalp
Engstligenalp in numbers
98'851 winter hotel nights · 66 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Adelboden, 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 Adelboden sold 98'851 overnight stays, +1.4 % on 2024/25. 44 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'548 beds in 20 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 112'208; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 46 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 73 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 7 %, United Kingdom 3 %, Netherlands 2 % and France 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 98'851 | 44 % | 1'548 |
| 2024/25 | 97'459 | 48 % | 1'479 |
| 2023/24 | 97'309 | 51 % | 1'453 |
| 2022/23 | 100'573 | 54 % | 1'453 |
| 2021/22 | 106'449 | 54 % | 1'439 |
| 2020/21 | 89'304 | 46 % | 1'474 |
| 2019/20 | 84'006 | 55 % | 1'445 |
| 2018/19 | 98'920 | 53 % | 1'393 |
| 2017/18 | 99'498 | 57 % | 1'411 |
| 2016/17 | 97'304 | 55 % | 1'401 |
Homes
66 % of the 4'472 homes in Adelboden are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1972 (Unter dem Birg - Engstligenalp II); half of them date from 1972 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unter dem Birg - Engstligenalp II | cable car | 1972 | – | – | Bergbahnen Engstligenalp 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
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.
Skigebiet Engstligenalp · Domaine skiable Engstligenalp · Comprensorio sciistico Engstligenalp