Grindelwald-Wengen
Grindelwald-Wengen is a ski destination in Bern with 88 km of mapped pistes and 27 lifts, between 938 m and 2'394 m. Mostly blue and red, 12 km black, 2 km ski routes. Nearby: Burglauenen, Grindelwald, Kleine Scheidegg, Wengen.
Rank Grindelwald-Wengen 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, 6 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Russisprung (2'150 m), 2.5 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station LHO2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Kleine Scheidegg (2'061 m, 1.5 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
On the AlpsPass: AlpsPass areas this weekend
Parking at Grindelwald-Wengen
Wengen is car-free: drivers leave the car in Lauterbrunnen.
Main car park: Parkhaus Grindelwald Terminal · 1'032 spaces · CHF 15 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-Wengen, the biggest first.
- Grindelwald Terminal Multi-storey car park · 1'032 spaces · paid · 50 m from the Eiger Express · by a piste · Map
- Parkhaus Lauterbrunnen Multi-storey car park · paid · 60 m from Lauterbrunnen station · Map
- Kirchenparkplatz Car park · paid · 660 m from Lauterbrunnen station · Map
- Auto-Parkplatz Kilchboden Car park · 110 spaces · paid · 300 m from the Eiger Express · by a piste · Map
- Car park 100 m from Lauterbrunnen station · Map
- Car park paid · 50 m from Lauterbrunnen station · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 05 | 1h 32Grindelwald Terminal · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 06 | 2h 30Grindelwald Terminal · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 26 | 3h 04Grindelwald Terminal · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 48 | 2h 28Grindelwald Terminal · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 54 | 2h 49Grindelwald Terminal · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 57 | 2h 50Grindelwald Terminal · 1 change |
| Basel | 2h 02 | 2h 36Grindelwald Terminal · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 07 | 2h 58Grindelwald Terminal · 3 changes |
| Chur | 2h 15 | 3h 58Grindelwald Terminal · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 34 | 3h 59Grindelwald Terminal · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 39 | 3h 31Grindelwald Terminal · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 42 | 3h 41Grindelwald Terminal · 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
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Jungfrau Ski Region SBB RailAway · train ticket and ski pass bought together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 88 km
- Blue pistes
- 35 km
- Red pistes
- 39 km
- Black pistes
- 12 km
- Ski routes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 27
- Top station
- 2'394 m
- Base
- 938 m
- Vertical
- 1'456 m
- Longest mapped run
- 10.3 km, from 2'337 m down to 941 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 25
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Grindelwald-Wengen are
Blue: gentler than most. Red and black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 15 · 32.8 km | 21 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 19 · 40.3 km | 37 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 7 · 11.9 km | 47 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 52 % on 1 Grathula (black).
Flat stretches 2
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 41 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Grindelwald-Wengen (85.1 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 Grindelwald-Wengen
OpenStreetMap maps 25 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Grindelwald-Wengen, highest first.
- Restaurant Eigergletscher Restaurant · about 2'320 m · Map
- Bistro Eigergletscher Café · about 2'320 m · Map
- Startbar Bar · about 2'320 m · Map
Show 22 more
- Skibar Schreinerei Café · about 2'320 m · Map
- Spycherbar Männlichen Bar · about 2'220 m · Map
- Berghaus Männlichen Restaurant · about 2'220 m · Map
- Berggasthaus Stöcki Grindelwaldblick Restaurant · about 2'110 m · Map
- Chalet Bar Bar · about 2'070 m · Map
- Restaurant Eigernordwand Restaurant · about 2'060 m · Map
- Bellevue Café · about 2'060 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Kleine Scheidegg Restaurant · about 2'060 m · Map
- Tipi Bar Kleine Scheidegg Bar · about 2'060 m · Map
- Wengernalp Restaurant · Map
- Buschdiglen Bar Bar · about 1'880 m · Map
- Arven Garde Bar Restaurant · about 1'880 m · Map
- Skibar Läger Bar · about 1'800 m · Map
- Wäschbar Bar · about 1'700 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Allmend Restaurant · about 1'500 m · Map
- Vorsaas Stube Restaurant · about 1'470 m · Map
- Restaurant Brandegg Restaurant · Map
- Mary's Cafe Café · about 1'270 m · Map
- Silberhorn Restaurant · Map
- Snackbar Innerwengen Bar · about 1'270 m · Map
- Holzerbar Bar · Map
- Schigrill & Bar Gysibielen Bar · 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-Wengen
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Outdoor Swiss Ski School Grindelwald | CHF 129 per hour | yes |
| Schweizer Ski- und Snowboardschule Wengen | CHF 276 for three hours | from Sunday, not on Saturday |
| Swiss Ski & Snowboard School Kleine Scheidegg | CHF 290 for three hours | not stated |
Every price and time
3 ski schools publish their prices for Grindelwald-Wengen. What each 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
- Schweizer Ski- und Snowboardschule Wengen Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 82 per half-day, CHF 330 for five half-days; adults CHF 90 per half-day, adults CHF 260 for 3 half-days
- Private lessons
- CHF 195 for two hours, CHF 276 for three hours, CHF 420 for a day (5 h); at least 2 h
- Times
- weeks start on Sunday, no Saturday lessons
- Swiss Ski & Snowboard School Kleine Scheidegg Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 59 per half-day (2 h), CHF 235 for five half-days; groups of up to 8
- Private lessons
- CHF 200 for two hours, CHF 290 for three hours, CHF 430 for a day (5 h); for up to 2 people; at least 2 h; each further person CHF 30
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 09:30–11:30
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-Wengen
Ski areas near Grindelwald-Wengen
How popular Grindelwald-Wengen 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-Wengen in numbers
490'283 winter hotel nights · 62 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, 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 and Lauterbrunnen 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 Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen 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
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
Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen AG, fiscal year 2025: CHF 4.6 million revenue, CHF 4.5 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 2 million and CHF 663'463 invested. Its shares trade on OTC-X. Annual report 2025
12 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2020 (Grindelwald Grund - Eigergletscher); half of them date from 2007 or earlier.
The 12 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grindelwald Grund - Eigergletscher | gondola | 2020 | 6'483 m | 1'385 m | – |
| Grindelwald Grund - Holenstein | gondola | 2019 | 3'099 m | 681 m | Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen AG |
| Holenstein - Männlichen | gondola | 2019 | 3'020 m | 601 m | Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen AG |
| Kleine Scheidegg - Lauberhorn | chairlift | 2015 | 1'056 m | 323 m | – |
| Wixi – Lauberhornschulter | chairlift | 2012 | 1'614 m | 495 m | – |
| Arvengarten - Eigergletscher | chairlift | 2009 | 1'739 m | 494 m | – |
| Arvengarten - Honegg | chairlift | 2007 | 1'733 m | 464 m | – |
| Innerwengen - Allmend | chairlift | 2004 | 608 m | 233 m | – |
| Läger - Klein Tschuggen | chairlift | 2003 | – | 446 m | Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen AG |
| Gummi - Honegg | chairlift | 1998 | 688 m | – | – |
| Itramen - Männlichen | chairlift | 1990 | 1'861 m | – | Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen AG |
| Wengen - Männlichen | cable car | 1954 | 1'909 m | – | Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen 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.
Skigebiet Grindelwald-Wengen · Domaine skiable Grindelwald-Wengen · Comprensorio sciistico Grindelwald-Wengen