La Berra
La Berra is a local ski area in Fribourg with 9 km of mapped pistes and 5 lifts, between 1'038 m and 1'633 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Cerniat, La Roche.
Rank La Berra against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 4 cm, 4.4 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Fochsen (1'707 m), 9.7 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station JAU2. 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 La Valsainte (1'044 m, 3.5 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 | 46 min | 1h 18La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 54 min | 1h 42La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 46 | 2h 28La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 46 | 2h 22La Roche FR, La Berra · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 47 | 2h 22La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Basel | 1h 54 | 2h 17La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Zug | 2h 08 | 2h 46La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 23 | 2h 20La Roche FR, La Berra · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 29 | 2h 32La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 43 | 2h 39La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| Chur | 2h 58 | 3h 39La Roche FR, La Berra · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 04 | 3h 40La Roche FR, La Berra · 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 La Berra Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 9 km
- Blue pistes
- 6 km
- Red pistes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 5
- Top station
- 1'633 m
- Base
- 1'038 m
- Vertical
- 595 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.5 km, from 1'634 m down to 1'038 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Fribourg
Piste map
How steep the pistes in La Berra are
Blue: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 5.8 km | 29 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 2 · 3.2 km | 41 % | 38 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 7 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in La Berra (9.1 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 La Berra
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in La Berra, highest first.
- Chalet de La Berra Mountain hut · about 1'630 m · Map
- Les Allières Restaurant · about 1'510 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 La Berra
Ski areas near La Berra
La Berra in numbers
10 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in La Roche, 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 La Roche: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
10 % of the 979 homes in La Roche are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2013 (Le Brand – La Berra); half of them date from 2013 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Brand – La Berra | chairs and cabins | 2013 | 2'200 m | 595 m | Société des remontées mécaniques de la Berra S.A. |
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 · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence
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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