LAAX
LAAX is a ski destination in Graubünden with 152 km of mapped pistes and 37 lifts, between 1'082 m and 2'974 m. Blue and red, 12 km black, 28 km ski routes. Nearby: Elm, Falera, Flims, Flims Waldhaus, Laax.
Rank LAAX against every ski area near Chur for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station La Fuorcla (2'325 m), 2.5 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station CMA2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 2°C, wind 10 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 10 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Crap Masegn (2'468 m, 2.8 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
CHF 85 for . The operator’s online price for that day when it was read: an area that prices by date or demand may charge more or less when you buy. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: shop.laax.com, “Tages- & Mehrtagestickets Skifahren LAAX, Erwachsen 1 Tag”, read .
For the size: the area maps 152 km of pistes and 1'892 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 94 for . This pass is 9% less.
Skiboard’s comparison, a curve through the 141 day passes it read for that day; the km are what OpenStreetMap maps, which an operator’s own total can exceed. It says nothing about which lifts run on the day.
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
On the AlpsPass (3 days a season): AlpsPass areas this weekend
Parking at LAAX
Main car park: Parkhaus Laax Murschetg · CHF 13.6 for a ski day · laax.com, read 30 Oct 2026
4 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 4 car parks by the lifts of LAAX, the biggest first.
- Parkhaus Stenna Flims Multi-storey car park · 50 m from the Arena Express Flims - Plaun · by a piste · Map
- Parkhaus Laax Bergbahnen Underground car park · paid · 160 m from the Laax-Larnags · piste 90 m away · Map
- Falera Car park · 560 m from the Falera - Curnius · Map
- Car park 90 m from the Laax-Larnags · piste 40 m away · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 32 min | 29 minFlims Dorf, Bergbahnen · direct |
| Zug | 1h 13 | 2h 25Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 1h 15 | 2h 01Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 23 | 2h 47Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 28 | 1h 48Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 1h 32 | 2h 18Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 34 | 2h 07Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 28 | 2h 54Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 39 | 2h 49Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 3h 16 | 4h 09Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 00 | 4h 51Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 01 | 5h 08Flims Dorf, Bergbahnen · 3 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 Laax Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Laax Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 152 km
- Blue pistes
- 58 km
- Red pistes
- 53 km
- Black pistes
- 12 km
- Ski routes
- 28 km
- Lifts
- 37
- Top station
- 2'974 m
- Base
- 1'082 m
- Vertical
- 1'892 m
- Longest mapped run
- 10.8 km, from 2'808 m down to 1'050 m
- Advertised longest run
- 13 km, La Siala – Flims
- Mountain restaurants
- 21
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in LAAX are
Blue, red and black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 39 · 51.5 km | 26 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 28 · 40.1 km | 38 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 7 · 7.5 km | 51 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 56 % on 33.1 Vorab Glacier Left (black).
Pistes that ski like another colour 3
Flat stretches 1
- 49.1 Crest la Siala - Crap Sogn Gion Blue · 41 % of its 960 m nearly flat: on a snowboard you may have to push · Map
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 74 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in LAAX (99.1 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 on the lift company’s piste map: check the current one 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 LAAX
OpenStreetMap maps 21 places to eat or drink up the mountain in LAAX, highest first.
- Vorab Restaurant · about 2'570 m · Map
- Sun Deck Snack bar · about 2'210 m · Map
- Galaaxy Restaurant · about 2'210 m · Map
Show 18 more
- Caffè NoName Café · about 2'200 m · Map
- Berghaus Nagens Restaurant · about 2'130 m · Map
- Freeride Base Café · about 2'130 m · Map
- Schneebar Alp Ruschein Restaurant · about 2'120 m · Map
- Segneshütte Restaurant · about 2'100 m · Map
- Stalla Restaurant · about 1'980 m · Map
- Alp Sogn Martin Restaurant · about 1'980 m · Map
- Tegia Miez Restaurant · Map
- Alp Dadens Mountain hut · Map
- Grillstation Lavadinas Restaurant · about 1'900 m · Map
- Station PLaun Restaurant · about 1'630 m · Map
- Tegia Curnius Restaurant · about 1'630 m · Map
- La Vacca Restaurant · about 1'630 m · Map
- Startgels Restaurant · about 1'600 m · Map
- Restaurant Foppa Restaurant · about 1'420 m · Map
- Casa Berendi Restaurant · about 1'410 m · Map
- Spaligna Restaurant · about 1'330 m · Map
- Runca Höhe Restaurant · about 1'320 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
Ski schools at LAAX
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| LAAX School | CHF 355 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for LAAX. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- LAAX School Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 69 per half-day (2 h), children CHF 128 per day, CHF 290 for five half-days, CHF 545 for five days; adults CHF 285 for 3 half-days; from age 4
- Private lessons
- CHF 245 for two hours, CHF 355 for three hours, CHF 550 for a day (5 h); for up to 2 people; at least 2 h; each further person CHF 30
- Times
- children’s group lessons 10:00–12:00 and 13:15–15:15; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
Prices as the schools publish them, the low-season price where they vary; a lift ticket and rental are not included. Skiboard sells no lessons and earns nothing from a booking. Group or private lesson, and what ski schools charge across Switzerland
About LAAX
Ski areas near LAAX
How popular LAAX is
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 935'000 skier days for Laax: the 9th most in Switzerland.
How many ski here
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 935'000 skier days for Laax: the 9th most in Switzerland. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
Weisse Arena Bergbahnen AG counted 936'405 winter first entries (“Ersteintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26. Annual report 2025/26
What polls say
- Best Ski Resort 2026: 1st of 49 for fun and snowboard parks (7 times in a row). Mountain Management Consulting asked 41'200 guests in the mountain restaurants and huts of 49 large Alpine areas in winter 2025/26, to score them from 1 to 10.
- Blick Winter Awards 2025/26: 2nd in “Best ski and snowboard area in Switzerland”. 64'000 Blick readers voted, among 68 Swiss areas in five categories.
A skier day or first entry is one person on the lifts for one day, whatever the ticket. Skiboard adds no score of its own: the counts are what Seilbahnen Schweiz and the lift companies publish, the placings are polls run by others. Searches and social-media posts follow the news more than skiers, so they are left out.
LAAX in numbers
280'623 winter hotel nights · 72 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Laax, Falera and Flims, 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 Laax and Flims sold 280'623 overnight stays, +2.7 % on 2024/25. 63 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 3'888 beds in 27 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 194'437; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 58 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 53 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 15 %, Poland 7 %, United Kingdom 5 % and Belgium 5 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 280'623 | 63 % | 3'888 |
| 2024/25 | 273'246 | 64 % | 3'896 |
| 2023/24 | 256'378 | 59 % | 3'510 |
| 2022/23 | 268'977 | 57 % | 3'796 |
| 2021/22 | 317'851 | 64 % | 3'875 |
| 2020/21 | 265'908 | 58 % | 3'630 |
| 2019/20 | 207'126 | 54 % | 3'651 |
| 2018/19 | 237'470 | 55 % | 3'667 |
| 2017/18 | 230'336 | 56 % | 3'443 |
| 2016/17 | 216'880 | 51 % | 3'507 |
Homes
72 % of the 10'860 homes in Laax, Falera and Flims are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Upscale homes in Flims / Laax are offered at about CHF 16'700 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +2.4 % on a year, +4.3 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted CHF 40 million of ski-pass revenue (6th) for Laax. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
Weisse Arena Bergbahnen AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 50.4 million revenue. Its shares trade on OTC-X. Annual report 2025/26
17 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2024 (Startgels - Segneshütte); half of them date from 1997 or earlier.
The 17 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Startgels - Segneshütte | gondola | 2024 | 1'449 m | 479 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Flims - Foppa (1. Sektion) | gondola | 2023 | 1'685 m | 329 m | Cassons AG |
| Foppa - Startgels (2. Sektion) | gondola | 2023 | 1'673 m | 191 m | Cassons AG |
| Larnags - Curnius | gondola | 2015 | 1'812 m | 481 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Lavadinas – Fuorcla da Sagogn | chairlift | 2012 | 2'142 m | 623 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Treis Palas – Crap Masegn | chairlift | 2012 | 1'448 m | 350 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Alp Dado – Crest la Siala | chairlift | 2011 | 1'573 m | 371 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Scansinas - Mutta Rodunda | chairlift | 2005 | 2'090 m | 536 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Flims - Plaun | gondola | 1997 | 3'945 m | 529 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Plaun - Scansinas | gondola | 1997 | 818 m | 273 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Scansinas - Nagens | gondola | 1997 | 1'068 m | 230 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Falera - Curnius | chairlift | 1995 | 1'984 m | 406 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Plaun - Crap Sogn Gion | chairlift | 1995 | 1'780 m | 592 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Mulania - Larnags | gondola | 1989 | 630 m | 80 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Curnius - Crap Sogn Gion | chairlift | 1987 | 2'103 m | 570 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Crap Sogn Gion - Crap Masegn | cable car | 1974 | 2'810 m | 260 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
| Mulania - Crap Sogn Gion | cable car | 1968 | 4'156 m | 1'130 m | WEISSE ARENA BERGBAHNEN AG |
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 · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence · UBS Alpine Property Focus
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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.
Skigebiet LAAX · Domaine skiable LAAX · Comprensorio sciistico LAAX