Grächen
Grächen is a ski destination in Valais with 17 km of mapped pistes and 15 lifts, between 1'620 m and 2'863 m. Mostly blue and red, 1 km black. Nearby: Eisten, St. Niklaus, Stalden.
Rank Grächen 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 3 cm, 3.8 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Seetal (2'480 m), 3 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SAA2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Gibidumpass (2'201 m, 8.7 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 56 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: shop.graechen.ch, “Skitickets, Erwachsen 1 Tag (ab 18)”, read .
For the size: the area maps 17 km of pistes and 1'243 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 53 for . This pass is 6% 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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 40 | 1h 43Grächen, Matten · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 52 | 2h 50Grächen, Matten · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 52 | 2h 36Grächen, Matten · 1 change |
| Zug | 2h 11 | 3h 18Grächen, Matten · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 25 | 3h 23Grächen, Matten · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 28 | 3h 36Grächen, Matten · 1 change |
| Zürich | 2h 34 | 2h 48Grächen, Matten · 1 change |
| Chur | 2h 40 | 4h 24Grächen, Matten · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 43 | 3h 04Grächen, Matten · 1 change |
| Basel | 2h 46 | 2h 52Grächen, Matten · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 53 | 3h 20Grächen, Matten · 1 change |
| St. Gallen | 3h 13 | 4h 09Grächen, Matten · 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 Grächen Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 17 km
- Blue pistes
- 5 km
- Red pistes
- 11 km
- Black pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 15
- Top station
- 2'863 m
- Base
- 1'620 m
- Vertical
- 1'243 m
- Longest mapped run
- 6.7 km, from 2'852 m down to 1'618 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Grächen are
Blue: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 6 · 3.6 km | 17 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 8 · 10.6 km | 39 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 1 · 1.0 km | 50 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 23 % on Family Funslope (blue).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 15 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Grächen (15.1 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 Grächen
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Grächen, highest first.
- Stafelbar Bar · about 2'200 m · Map
- Hannighüsli Restaurant · about 2'140 m · Map
- Hannigalp Restaurant · about 2'120 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 Grächen
Ski areas near Grächen
How popular Grächen is
Touristische Unternehmung Grächen AG counted 161'759 winter first entries (“Skierdays”) in fiscal year 2025/26.
How many ski here
Touristische Unternehmung Grächen AG counted 161'759 winter first entries (“Skierdays”) in fiscal year 2025/26. Annual report 2025/26
Each of the twenty areas Seilbahnen Schweiz counts had at least 411'000 skier days in winter 2025/26.
A skier day or first entry is one person on the lifts for one day, whatever the ticket. Skiboard adds no score of its own: the counts are what Seilbahnen Schweiz and the lift companies publish, the placings are polls run by others. Searches and social-media posts follow the news more than skiers, so they are left out.
Grächen in numbers
69 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Grächen, 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 Grächen: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
69 % of the 2'184 homes in Grächen are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
Touristische Unternehmung Grächen AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 6.1 million revenue, CHF 5.6 million transport revenue and EBITDA CHF 1.6 million. Annual report 2025/26
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2015 (Grächen - Hannigalp); half of them date from 2015 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grächen - Hannigalp | gondola | 2015 | – | – | Touristische Unternehmung Grächen 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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