Kaltbrunn
Kaltbrunn is a local ski area in St. Gallen with 1 km of mapped pistes and 1 lift, between 1'153 m and 1'232 m. Nearby: Rufi.
Rank Kaltbrunn against every ski area near St. Gallen for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Bärenfall (1'610 m), 4 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station AMD2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 0 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 0 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Schänis Bestand (710 m, 4.3 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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| St. Gallen | 41 min | 1h 25estimate |
| Winterthur | 54 min | 1h 42estimate |
| Zug | 54 min | 1h 42estimate |
| Zürich | 56 min | 1h 45estimate |
| Chur | 59 min | 1h 49estimate |
| Zurich Airport | 59 min | 1h 49estimate |
| Lucerne | 1h 12 | 2h 06estimate |
| Basel | 2h 13 | 3h 25estimate |
| Bern | 2h 21 | 3h 35estimate |
| Lausanne | 3h 19 | 4h 51estimate |
| Geneva | 4h 05 | 5h 51estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 06 | 5h 52estimate |
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 Kaltbrunn Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 1
- Top station
- 1'232 m
- Base
- 1'153 m
- Vertical
- 79 m
- Longest mapped run
- 0.4 km, from 1'232 m down to 1'157 m
- Canton
- St. Gallen
How steep the pistes in Kaltbrunn are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 0.4 km | 32 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 1 · 0.4 km | 33 % | 38 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 2 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Kaltbrunn (0.7 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 Kaltbrunn
Ski areas near Kaltbrunn
Kaltbrunn in numbers
8 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Kaltbrunn, 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 Kaltbrunn: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
8 % of the 2'379 homes in Kaltbrunn are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
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
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 Kaltbrunn · Domaine skiable Kaltbrunn · Comprensorio sciistico Kaltbrunn