Grindelwald First
Grindelwald First is a ski destination in Bern with 39 km of mapped pistes and 8 lifts, between 1'061 m and 2'497 m. Mostly blue and red, 7 km black. Nearby: Grindelwald.
Rank Grindelwald First against every ski area near Lucerne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 2.2 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Schmidigen-Bidmeren (2'111 m), 1.4 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station FIR2. 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, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Grindelwald / Oberläger (1'980 m, 1.7 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 83 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: top-of-travel.jungfrau.ch, “Skipass Jungfrau 1 Tag”, read .
For the size: the 4 areas on this pass map 174 km of pistes and 2'086 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 101 for . This pass is 18% 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 Grindelwald First
Main car park: Parkhaus Grindelwald Eiger+ · 164 spaces · CHF 20 for a ski day · jungfrau.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Grindelwald First, the biggest first.
- Underground car park 210 m from the Firstbahn · piste 220 m away · Map
- Parking Eiger+ Underground car park · 160 spaces · paid · 540 m from the Firstbahn · Map
- Pfingstegg 4 Car park · 390 m from the Firstbahn · by a piste · Map
- Car park 310 m from the Firstbahn · piste 270 m away · Map
- Auto-Parkplatz Car park · 50 spaces · paid · 120 m from the Firstbahn · piste 130 m away · Map
- Pfingstegg 3 Car park · 330 m from the Firstbahn · piste 80 m away · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 57 min | 2h 45Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 06 | 1h 47Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 16 | 3h 19Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 39 | 2h 43Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 47 | 3h 05Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 58 | 3h 13Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 4 changes |
| Basel | 1h 58 | 2h 51Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 4 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 02 | 3h 04Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 3 changes |
| Chur | 2h 05 | 4h 13Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 24 | 4h 14Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 4 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 49 | 3h 46Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 50 | 4h 06Grindelwald, Firstbahn · 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 Grindelwald Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Jungfrau Ski Region SBB RailAway · train ticket and ski pass bought together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 39 km
- Blue pistes
- 17 km
- Red pistes
- 14 km
- Black pistes
- 7 km
- Ski routes
- <1 km
- Lifts
- 8
- Top station
- 2'497 m
- Base
- 1'061 m
- Vertical
- 1'436 m
- Longest mapped run
- 8.6 km, from 2'497 m down to 1'035 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 9
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Grindelwald First are
Red and black: typical. Blue: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 9 · 14.4 km | 32 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 5 · 12.8 km | 36 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 5 · 6.5 km | 47 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 50 % on 16 Faxhubel west (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 19 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Grindelwald First (33.8 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 Grindelwald First
OpenStreetMap maps 9 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Grindelwald First, highest first.
- Anja's Skibar Bar · Map
- Berggasthaus First Restaurant · about 2'170 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Schreckfeld Restaurant · about 1'950 m · Map
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- Bärgelegghütte Restaurant · about 1'870 m · Map
- Alpwäg Pisten-Beizli Bar · Map
- Chuestall Restaurant · about 1'560 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Bort Restaurant · about 1'560 m · Map
- Brüggbeizli Bar · Map
- Brügg-Beizli Café · 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 Grindelwald First
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Outdoor Swiss Ski School Grindelwald | CHF 129 per hour | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Grindelwald First. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Outdoor Swiss Ski School Grindelwald Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 89 per half-day (3 h), CHF 339 for five half-days; from age 3; lunch supervision CHF 20 a day
- Private lessons
- CHF 129 per hour, CHF 439 for a day (5 h)
- Times
- children’s group lessons daily, 09:00–12:00; 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
Jungfrau ski region
One day pass covers these 3 areas, 166 km of mapped pistes in all.
About Grindelwald First
Ski areas near Grindelwald First
How popular Grindelwald First is
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 1'085'000 skier days for Jungfrauregion: the 6th most in Switzerland.
How many ski here
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 1'085'000 skier days for Jungfrauregion: the 6th most in Switzerland. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
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.
Grindelwald First in numbers
282'970 winter hotel nights · 63 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Grindelwald, 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 Grindelwald sold 282'970 overnight stays, -5.3 % on 2024/25. 60 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 3'358 beds in 45 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 466'455; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 39 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 37 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then United States 9 %, Germany 9 %, United Kingdom 7 % and South Korea 5 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 282'970 | 60 % | 3'358 |
| 2024/25 | 298'732 | 61 % | 3'542 |
| 2023/24 | 318'948 | 64 % | 3'617 |
| 2022/23 | 311'361 | 64 % | 3'540 |
| 2021/22 | 281'448 | 59 % | 3'568 |
| 2020/21 | 187'981 | 46 % | 3'270 |
| 2019/20 | 194'362 | 54 % | 3'266 |
| 2018/19 | 238'917 | 59 % | 3'189 |
| 2017/18 | 220'422 | 56 % | 3'123 |
| 2016/17 | 201'139 | 51 % | 3'146 |
Homes
63 % of the 5'382 homes in Grindelwald 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 Jungfrau Region are offered at about CHF 15'700 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +5.9 % on a year, +3.2 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted CHF 49 million of ski-pass revenue (5th) for Jungfrauregion. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
6 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2015 (Grindelwald - Bort); half of them date from 1994 or earlier.
The 6 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grindelwald - Bort | gondola | 2015 | 2'614 m | 501 m | Firstbahn AG |
| Schreckfeld - Chrinnenboden | chairlift | 2002 | 1'623 m | 310 m | Firstbahn AG |
| Underläger - Schreckfeld | chairlift | 1998 | 1'065 m | 290 m | Firstbahn AG |
| First - Oberjoch | chairlift | 1994 | 1'503 m | 336 m | Firstbahn AG |
| Bort - Grindel | gondola | 1991 | 1'694 m | 391 m | Firstbahn AG |
| Grindel - First | gondola | 1991 | 917 m | 212 m | Firstbahn 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 · UBS Alpine Property Focus
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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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