Hohwald Beatenberg
Hohwald Beatenberg is a local ski area in Bern with 7 km of mapped pistes and 3 lifts, between 1'290 m and 1'604 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Beatenberg.
Rank Hohwald Beatenberg against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 10.4 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Schibe (1'852 m), 4.5 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SHE2. 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, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Habkern (1'245 m, 3.1 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 47 min | 1h 27Beatenberg, Waldegg · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 02 | 2h 31Beatenberg, Waldegg · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 24 | 2h 59Beatenberg, Waldegg · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 43 | 2h 23Beatenberg, Waldegg · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 44 | 2h 44Beatenberg, Waldegg · 2 changes |
| Basel | 1h 47 | 2h 31Beatenberg, Waldegg · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 51 | 2h 45Beatenberg, Waldegg · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 2h 03 | 2h 53Beatenberg, Waldegg · 3 changes |
| Chur | 2h 24 | 3h 53Beatenberg, Waldegg · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 33 | 3h 26Beatenberg, Waldegg · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 35 | 3h 54Beatenberg, Waldegg · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 35 | 3h 36Beatenberg, Waldegg · 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 Beatenberg Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 7 km
- Blue pistes
- 5 km
- Red pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 3
- Top station
- 1'604 m
- Base
- 1'290 m
- Vertical
- 314 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2 km, from 1'603 m down to 1'286 m
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Hohwald Beatenberg are
Blue: gentler than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 4.4 km | 13 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 1 · 2.1 km | 33 % | 38 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 6 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Hohwald Beatenberg (6.5 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
About Hohwald Beatenberg
Ski areas near Hohwald Beatenberg
Hohwald Beatenberg in numbers
39'676 winter hotel nights · 60 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Beatenberg, 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 Beatenberg sold 39'676 overnight stays, -5.1 % on 2024/25. 40 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 750 beds in 11 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 83'307; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 33 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 53 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 23 %, Netherlands 4 %, United Kingdom 3 % and China 3 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 39'676 | 40 % | 750 |
| 2024/25 | 41'825 | 42 % | 750 |
| 2023/24 | 44'743 | 41 % | 782 |
| 2022/23 | 46'462 | 45 % | 738 |
| 2021/22 | 39'081 | 40 % | 738 |
| 2020/21 | 32'976 | 40 % | 735 |
| 2019/20 | 32'742 | 36 % | 805 |
| 2018/19 | 47'428 | 50 % | 758 |
| 2017/18 | 44'381 | 46 % | 758 |
| 2016/17 | 44'271 | 48 % | 758 |
Homes
60 % of the 1'582 homes in Beatenberg are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
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
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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