Lauchernalp
Lauchernalp is a ski destination in Valais with 20 km of mapped pistes and 7 lifts, between 1'445 m and 3'084 m. Mostly blue and red, 4 km black. Nearby: Kippel, Wiler.
Rank Lauchernalp against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 18 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Gandegg (2'710 m), 0.9 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station GAN2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 10 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 10 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Lötschenpasshütte (2'690 m, 3.6 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 72 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.lauchernalp.ch, “Skitickets, Erwachsen 1 Tag (20-99)”, read .
For the size: the area maps 20 km of pistes and 1'639 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 61 for . This pass is 18% more.
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 Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Parking at Lauchernalp
3 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 3 car parks by the lifts of Lauchernalp, the biggest first.
- Car park paid · by the Luftseilbahn Wiler-Lauchernalp · Map
- Parkhaus Kippel Underground car park · 65 spaces · paid · 260 m from the Luftseilbahn Wiler-Lauchernalp · Map
- Car park 250 m from the Luftseilbahn Wiler-Lauchernalp · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 18 | 1h 37Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 36 | 3h 11Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 43 | 2h 28Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 57 | 3h 15Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 19 | 2h 38Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 24 | 3h 11Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 25 | 2h 46Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 26 | 3h 21Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 27 | 3h 01Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 38 | 3h 08Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 3 changes |
| Chur | 2h 41 | 4h 08Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 05 | 3h 47Wiler (Lötschen), Talstation · 4 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 Lauchernalp Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Lauchernalp Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 20 km
- Blue pistes
- 11 km
- Red pistes
- 6 km
- Black pistes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 7
- Top station
- 3'084 m
- Base
- 1'445 m
- Vertical
- 1'639 m
- Longest mapped run
- 9.2 km, from 3'084 m down to 1'448 m
- Advertised longest run
- 14 km, Hockenhorngrat – Wiler
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Lauchernalp are
Blue, red and black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 6 · 10.6 km | 27 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 6 · 6.1 km | 38 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 4 · 3.5 km | 52 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 62 % on 13 Gafenbach (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 16 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Lauchernalp (20.2 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 Lauchernalp
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Lauchernalp, highest first.
- Lauchernalp Restaurant · about 2'080 m · Map
- Panoramarestaurant Lauchernalp Restaurant · about 1'960 m · Map
- Spycher Bar · about 1'930 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 Lauchernalp
Ski areas near Lauchernalp
Lauchernalp in numbers
73 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Wiler (Lötschen), 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 Wiler (Lötschen): it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
73 % of the 832 homes in Wiler (Lötschen) are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
Lauchernalp Bergbahnen AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 8.6 million revenue, CHF 6.2 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 2.9 million and CHF 958'391 invested. Annual report 2025/26
4 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2017 (Lauchernalp - Stafel); half of them date from 1994 or earlier.
The 4 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauchernalp - Stafel | chairlift | 2017 | – | – | Lauchernalp Bergbahnen AG |
| Gandegg - Hockenhorngrat | gondola | 1999 | 932 m | 374 m | Lauchernalp Bergbahnen AG |
| Wiler - Lauchernalp | cable car | 1994 | 1'197 m | – | Lauchernalp Bergbahnen AG |
| Stafel - Gandegg | chairlift | 1986 | 1'619 m | 614 m | Lauchernalp 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 Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence
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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