La Chapelle d'Abondance
La Chapelle d'Abondance is a ski destination in Valais with 27 km of mapped pistes and 11 lifts, between 994 m and 1'797 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Abondance, La Chapelle-d'Abondance, Torgon.
Rank La Chapelle d'Abondance against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of La Chapelle d'Abondance 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, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Pas de Morgins (1'378 m, 6.4 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
EUR 44 (CHF 40) for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: skipass-chatel.com, “1 Jour Espace Liberté (Châtel / La Chapelle / Torgon), Adulte”, read .
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
Parking at La Chapelle d'Abondance
Main car park: P1 Plan de Croix, Torgon · 300 spaces · torgon.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
One car park by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps one car park by the lifts of La Chapelle d'Abondance.
- Car park free · 40 m from the Djeu des Têtes · by a piste · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 36 min | 1h 19estimate |
| Geneva | 1h 01 | 1h 51estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 03 | 1h 54estimate |
| Bern | 1h 39 | 2h 41estimate |
| Lucerne | 2h 36 | 3h 55estimate |
| Basel | 2h 46 | 4h 08estimate |
| Zug | 2h 57 | 4h 22estimate |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 03 | 4h 30estimate |
| Zürich | 3h 14 | 4h 44estimate |
| Winterthur | 3h 15 | 4h 46estimate |
| Chur | 3h 34 | 5h 10estimate |
| St. Gallen | 3h 48 | 5h 28estimate |
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 Chapelle-d'Abondance Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 27 km
- Blue pistes
- 19 km
- Red pistes
- 7 km
- Lifts
- 11
- Top station
- 1'797 m
- Base
- 994 m
- Vertical
- 803 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.8 km, from 1'571 m down to 1'043 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 5
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in La Chapelle d'Abondance are
Blue: gentler than most. Red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 4 · 5.1 km | 17 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 6 · 7.4 km | 44 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
The steepest 100 m: 48 % on Djeu des Têtes (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 10 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in La Chapelle d'Abondance (12.6 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour. Only the Swiss side: swisstopo’s model stops at the border.
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 Chapelle d'Abondance
OpenStreetMap maps 5 places to eat or drink up the mountain in La Chapelle d'Abondance, highest first.
- Les Aiguillettes Restaurant · about 1'800 m · Map
- La Bourri Restaurant · about 1'650 m · Map
- Le Mousseron Restaurant · about 1'460 m · Map
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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 Chapelle d'Abondance
Ski areas near La Chapelle d'Abondance
La Chapelle d'Abondance in numbers
35 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Vionnaz, 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 Vionnaz: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
35 % of the 2'178 homes in Vionnaz 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 Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory
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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.
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