Les Paccots
Les Paccots is a local ski area in Fribourg with 9 km of mapped pistes and 9 lifts, between 1'064 m and 1'487 m. Mostly blue, 2 km black. Nearby: Châtel-Saint-Denis.
Rank Les Paccots 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 Chenau (1'708 m), 4.4 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station ALI2. 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 Les Paccots (1'067 m, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 32 min | 59 minLes Paccots, village · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 11 | 1h 35Les Paccots, village · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 20 | 1h 45Les Paccots, village · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 22 | 1h 54Les Paccots, village · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 12 | 2h 39Les Paccots, village · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 18 | 2h 41Les Paccots, village · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 32 | 3h 07Les Paccots, village · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 48 | 2h 37Les Paccots, village · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 54 | 2h 53Les Paccots, village · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 3h 08 | 3h 09Les Paccots, village · 3 changes |
| Chur | 3h 17 | 4h 01Les Paccots, village · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 26 | 4h 02Les Paccots, village · 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 Les Paccots Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 9 km
- Blue pistes
- 6 km
- Red pistes
- 2 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 9
- Top station
- 1'487 m
- Base
- 1'064 m
- Vertical
- 423 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2.1 km, from 1'389 m down to 1'063 m
- Canton
- Fribourg
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Les Paccots are
Blue: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 3 · 5.4 km | 36 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 1 · 1.4 km | 38 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 2 · 1.9 km | 34 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 44 % on Le Pralet (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 6 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Les Paccots (8.7 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 Les Paccots
Ski areas near Les Paccots
Les Paccots in numbers
13 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Châtel-Saint-Denis, 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 Châtel-Saint-Denis: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
13 % of the 4'690 homes in Châtel-Saint-Denis are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
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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