Evolène
Evolène is a ski destination in Valais with 26 km of mapped pistes and 5 lifts, between 1'385 m and 2'625 m. Mostly blue and red, 5 km black. Nearby: Euseigne, Lannaz.
Rank Evolène against every ski area near Lausanne 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 Combatzeline (2'203 m), 9.8 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station NEN3. 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, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Evolène / Villa (1'825 m, 4.1 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 50 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: valdherens.ch, “Espace Dent Blanche 1 jour, Adultes 21-64 ans”, read .
For the size: the 2 areas on this pass map 42 km of pistes and 1'240 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 62 for . This pass is 19% 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
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Parking at Evolène
One car park by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps one car park by the lifts of Evolène.
- Car park 150 m from the Lana - La Meina · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 1h 28 | 2h 25Evolène, Planchet · 1 change |
| Bern | 1h 43 | 2h 32Evolène, Planchet · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 53 | 3h 12Evolène, Planchet · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 56 | 3h 25Evolène, Planchet · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 2h 15 | 3h 39Evolène, Planchet · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 35 | 4h 07Evolène, Planchet · 4 changes |
| Basel | 2h 54 | 3h 41Evolène, Planchet · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 57 | 3h 37Evolène, Planchet · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 59 | 4h 09Evolène, Planchet · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 05 | 3h 53Evolène, Planchet · 3 changes |
| Chur | 3h 13 | 5h 01Evolène, Planchet · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 23 | 5h 02Evolène, Planchet · 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 Evolène Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 26 km
- Blue pistes
- 10 km
- Red pistes
- 11 km
- Black pistes
- 5 km
- Lifts
- 5
- Top station
- 2'625 m
- Base
- 1'385 m
- Vertical
- 1'240 m
- Longest mapped run
- 10.2 km, from 2'601 m down to 1'385 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 1
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Evolène are
Blue and black: typical. Red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 5.7 km | 28 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 11 · 17.8 km | 42 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 6 · 5.8 km | 50 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 62 % on 11 Veisivi (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 22 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Evolène (29.3 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 Evolène
OpenStreetMap maps one place to eat or drink up the mountain in Evolène.
- La Remointze Chemeuille Restaurant · about 2'130 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 Evolène
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| École Suisse de Ski Evolène-Arolla | CHF 145 for two hours | weekdays only |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Evolène. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- École Suisse de Ski Evolène-Arolla Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 50 per half-day (2.5 h), CHF 220 for five half-days; from age 4
- Private lessons
- CHF 75 per hour, CHF 145 for two hours, CHF 400 for a day; for one person; each further person CHF 15
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 10:00–12:30; group lessons on weekdays only
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
About Evolène
Ski areas near Evolène
Evolène in numbers
18'185 winter hotel nights · 64 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Evolène, 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 Evolène sold 18'185 overnight stays, +2.0 % on 2024/25. 43 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 368 beds in 11 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 21'636; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 45 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 84 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then France 6 %, Germany 2 %, Belgium 2 % and United Kingdom 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 18'185 | 43 % | 368 |
| 2024/25 | 17'823 | 38 % | 396 |
| 2023/24 | 19'540 | 39 % | 403 |
| 2022/23 | 16'962 | 38 % | 407 |
| 2021/22 | 15'873 | 32 % | 409 |
| 2020/21 | 12'358 | 29 % | 376 |
| 2019/20 | 10'563 | 31 % | 403 |
| 2018/19 | 12'118 | 26 % | 405 |
| 2017/18 | 15'099 | 33 % | 405 |
| 2016/17 | 10'573 | 25 % | 404 |
Homes
64 % of the 2'478 homes in Evolène 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 Evolène are offered at about CHF 6'600 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +2.1 % on a year, +2.4 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1981 (Lana - La Meina); half of them date from 1981 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lana - La Meina | chairlift | 1981 | 1'841 m | – | Télé-Evolène SA |
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
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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