L'Orient
L'Orient is a local ski area in Vaud with 5 km of mapped pistes and 1 lift, between 1'027 m and 1'287 m. Blue, red and black, 2 km black.
Rank L'Orient against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of L'Orient 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, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Orient (1'009 m, 0.7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 39 min | 1h 26L'Orient, centre · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 50 min | 1h 59Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 1 change |
| Geneva | 53 min | 1h 51Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 1 change |
| Bern | 1h 51 | 2h 38Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 41 | 3h 27Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 59 | 3h 37Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 2 changes |
| Zug | 3h 01 | 4h 00Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 3h 12 | 3h 27Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 16 | 3h 42Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 3h 29 | 3h 53Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 2 changes |
| Chur | 4h 06 | 4h 53Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 4h 09 | 4h 33Le Sentier-L'Orient, gare · 1 change |
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 L'Orient Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 5 km
- Blue pistes
- 1 km
- Red pistes
- 1 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 1
- Top station
- 1'287 m
- Base
- 1'027 m
- Vertical
- 260 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1.3 km, from 1'286 m down to 1'030 m
- Canton
- Vaud
Piste map
How steep the pistes in L'Orient are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 1.3 km | 26 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 1 · 1.3 km | 40 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 2 · 1.9 km | 29 % | 51 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 5 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in L'Orient (4.6 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 L'Orient
Ski areas near L'Orient
L'Orient in numbers
10'048 winter hotel nights · 21 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Le Chenit, 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 Le Chenit sold 10'048 overnight stays, -12.7 % on 2024/25. 30 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 294 beds in 6 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 16'865; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 41 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 61 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then France 18 %, Germany 3 %, United States 3 % and Italy 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 10'048 | 30 % | 294 |
| 2024/25 | 11'509 | 36 % | 294 |
| 2023/24 | 10'444 | 31 % | 288 |
| 2022/23 | 11'563 | 33 % | 288 |
| 2021/22 | 6'663 | 27 % | 288 |
| 2020/21 | 3'013 | 13 % | 188 |
| 2019/20 | 3'706 | 19 % | 184 |
| 2018/19 | 5'651 | 27 % | 181 |
| 2017/18 | 4'872 | 23 % | 181 |
| 2016/17 | 4'705 | 20 % | 195 |
Homes
21 % of the 2'919 homes in Le Chenit 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.
Skigebiet L'Orient · Domaine skiable L'Orient · Comprensorio sciistico L'Orient