La Forclaz VD
La Forclaz VD is a local ski area in Vaud with 2 km of mapped pistes and 2 lifts, between 1'259 m and 1'426 m. Nearby: La Forclaz.
Rank La Forclaz VD against every ski area near Lausanne 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 Col de Bretaye (1'780 m), 2.6 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station CHA3. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for La Forclaz VD (1'278 m, 0.2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 47 min | 1h 27La Forclaz VD, village · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 23 | 2h 36La Forclaz VD, village · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 23 | 2h 10La Forclaz VD, village · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 25 | 2h 20La Forclaz VD, village · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 15 | 4h 10La Forclaz VD, village · 5 changes |
| Basel | 2h 33 | 3h 45La Forclaz VD, village · 4 changes |
| Zug | 2h 36 | 4h 14La Forclaz VD, village · 4 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 54 | 3h 43La Forclaz VD, village · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 01 | 4h 00La Forclaz VD, village · 4 changes |
| Chur | 3h 13 | 5h 07La Forclaz VD, village · 4 changes |
| Winterthur | 3h 14 | 4h 07La Forclaz VD, village · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 28 | 4h 46La Forclaz VD, village · 5 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 La Forclaz Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 2
- Top station
- 1'426 m
- Base
- 1'259 m
- Vertical
- 167 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1 km, from 1'426 m down to 1'271 m
- Canton
- Vaud
Piste map
How steep the pistes in La Forclaz VD are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 0.8 km | 30 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 1 · 0.6 km | 40 % | 38 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 2 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in La Forclaz VD (1.4 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 La Forclaz VD
Ski areas near La Forclaz VD
La Forclaz VD in numbers
62 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Ormont-Dessous, 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 Ormont-Dessous: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
62 % of the 1'663 homes in Ormont-Dessous 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
Featured in
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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