Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste)
Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste) is a ski destination in Bern with 8 km of mapped pistes and 140 lifts, between 940 m and 2'223 m. Mostly blue and red, 1 km black. Nearby: Grindelwald, Kleine Scheidegg, Lauterbrunnen, Mürren, Stechelberg.
Rank Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste) against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste) at a comparable elevation (within 500 m of the ski area's mid-mountain), so Skiboard shows no measured snow for this ski area.
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Wengen (1'277 m, 3.9 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 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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 03 | 1h 37Lauterbrunnen · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 04 | 2h 35Lauterbrunnen · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 24 | 3h 09Lauterbrunnen · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 46 | 2h 33Lauterbrunnen · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 54 | 2h 54Lauterbrunnen · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 54 | 2h 55Lauterbrunnen · 1 change |
| Basel | 2h 00 | 2h 41Lauterbrunnen · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 05 | 3h 03Lauterbrunnen · 3 changes |
| Chur | 2h 14 | 4h 03Lauterbrunnen · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 32 | 4h 04Lauterbrunnen · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 40 | 3h 36Lauterbrunnen · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 42 | 3h 46Lauterbrunnen · 2 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
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 8 km
- Blue pistes
- 3 km
- Red pistes
- 4 km
- Black pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 140
- Top station
- 2'223 m
- Base
- 940 m
- Vertical
- 1'284 m
- Longest mapped run
- 0.9 km, from 1'888 m down to 1'859 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 40
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste) are
Red: gentler than most. Blue and black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 20 · 35.3 km | 26 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 14 · 19.4 km | 27 % | 38 % | gentler than most |
| Black | 5 · 11.1 km | 48 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 52 % on 1 Grathula (black).
Flat stretches 3
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 39 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste) (65.9 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 - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste)
OpenStreetMap maps 40 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste), highest first.
- Berghaus Männlichen Restaurant · about 2'220 m · Map
- Spycherbar Männlichen Bar · about 2'220 m · Map
- Berggasthaus Stöcki Grindelwaldblick Restaurant · about 2'110 m · Map
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- Chalet Bar Bar · about 2'070 m · Map
- Restaurant Eigernordwand Restaurant · about 2'060 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Kleine Scheidegg Restaurant · about 2'060 m · Map
- Tipi Bar Kleine Scheidegg Bar · about 2'060 m · Map
- Bellevue Café · about 2'050 m · Map
- Startbar Bar · Map
- Skibar Schreinerei Café · Map
- Restaurant Eigergletscher Restaurant · Map
- Bistro Eigergletscher Café · Map
- Panorama Restaurant Allmendhubel Restaurant · about 1'910 m · Map
- Schiltgrathüsi Restaurant · Map
- Wengernalp Restaurant · about 1'870 m · Map
- Buschdiglen Bar Bar · about 1'850 m · Map
- Pension Suppenalp Restaurant · about 1'850 m · Map
- Arven Garde Bar Restaurant · about 1'850 m · Map
- Wäschbar Bar · Map
- Residence Eiger Restaurant · about 1'650 m · Map
- Gimmeln Restaurant · Map
- Skibar Läger Bar · Map
- Berghaus Alpiglen Restaurant · about 1'600 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Winteregg Restaurant · about 1'580 m · Map
- Mary's Cafe Café · Map
- Snackbar Innerwengen Bar · Map
- Bergrestaurant Allmend Restaurant · about 1'500 m · Map
- Grütschalp Bistro Café · about 1'490 m · Map
- Pfingstegg Restaurant · about 1'390 m · Map
- Bus Stop Après Ride Bar Bar · Map
- Restaurant Brandegg Restaurant · about 1'330 m · Map
- Holzerbar Bar · Map
- Schigrill & Bar Gysibielen Bar · Map
- Jägerstübli Restaurant · Map
- Holdrio Bar Bar · Map
- Aspen Restaurant · Map
- Café 3692 Restaurant · about 1'150 m · Map
- Rancher Bar Restaurant · Map
- Stallbeizli Heuboden Restaurant · about 1'050 m · Map
- 1910 Gourmet by Hausers Restaurant · about 1'020 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 Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste)
Ski areas near Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste)
Grindelwald - Männlichen (Schlittelpiste) in numbers
490'283 winter hotel nights · 62 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Lauterbrunnen and 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 Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald sold 490'283 overnight stays, +0.5 % on 2024/25. 56 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 6'617 beds in 89 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 830'606; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 37 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 39 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then United Kingdom 11 %, United States 9 %, Germany 8 % and Netherlands 4 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 490'283 | 56 % | 6'617 |
| 2024/25 | 487'697 | 57 % | 6'645 |
| 2023/24 | 504'276 | 60 % | 6'445 |
| 2022/23 | 497'871 | 60 % | 6'437 |
| 2021/22 | 478'577 | 57 % | 6'563 |
| 2020/21 | 291'821 | 37 % | 6'282 |
| 2019/20 | 377'964 | 56 % | 6'687 |
| 2018/19 | 460'436 | 56 % | 6'522 |
| 2017/18 | 439'305 | 54 % | 6'457 |
| 2016/17 | 402'290 | 50 % | 6'480 |
Homes
62 % of the 9'034 homes in Lauterbrunnen and 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
Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen AG, fiscal year 2025: CHF 14.5 million revenue, CHF 13.8 million transport revenue and EBITDA CHF 4.9 million. The company runs 2 areas on Skiboard and reports them together. Its shares trade on OTC-X. Annual report 2025
5 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2024 (Pendelbahn Stechelberg - Mürren); half of them date from 1969 or earlier.
The 5 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pendelbahn Stechelberg - Mürren | cable car | 2024 | 1'194 m | 775 m | – |
| Lauterbrunnen - Grütschalp | cable car | 2015 | 1'433 m | 686 m | – |
| Arvengarten - Kleine Scheidegg | chairlift | 1969 | – | – | – |
| Grindelwald - Pfingstegg | cable car | 1967 | 1'035 m | 359 m | Luftseilbahn Grindelwald-Pfingstegg AG |
| Stechelberg - Gimmelwald - Mürren | cable car | 1965 | – | 771 m | – |
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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