Les Pléiades
Les Pléiades is a local ski area in Vaud with 6 km of mapped pistes and 6 lifts, between 1'159 m and 1'396 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Blonay, St-Legier-La Chiesaz.
Rank Les Pléiades 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), 6 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, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Pont de Saumont (828 m, 1.7 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 | 30 min | 1h 08Lally · 1 change |
| Bern | 1h 15 | 2h 22Lally · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 17 | 1h 51Lally · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 18 | 2h 01Lally · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 2h 15 | 3h 51Lally · 4 changes |
| Basel | 2h 22 | 3h 26Lally · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 36 | 3h 55Lally · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 51 | 3h 24Lally · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 58 | 3h 41Lally · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 3h 12 | 3h 48Lally · 3 changes |
| Chur | 3h 20 | 4h 48Lally · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 29 | 4h 27Lally · 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 Pléiades Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 6 km
- Blue pistes
- 3 km
- Red pistes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 6
- Top station
- 1'396 m
- Base
- 1'159 m
- Vertical
- 237 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1.5 km, from 1'395 m down to 1'209 m
- Canton
- Vaud
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Les Pléiades are
Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 2.5 km | 26 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 4 · 2.6 km | 35 % | 38 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 35 % on Les Motalles rouge (red).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 6 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Les Pléiades (5.1 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 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 Pléiades
Ski areas near Les Pléiades
Les Pléiades in numbers
17'074 winter hotel nights · 9 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Blonay - Saint-Légier, 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 Blonay - Saint-Légier sold 17'074 overnight stays, +5.7 % on 2024/25. 40 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 316 beds in 4 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 24'079; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 40 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 31 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then China 8 %, France 8 %, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) 7 % and United States 5 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 17'074 | 40 % | 316 |
| 2024/25 | 16'155 | 39 % | 312 |
| 2023/24 | 15'713 | 36 % | 312 |
| 2022/23 | 14'097 | 33 % | 302 |
Homes
9 % of the 5'659 homes in Blonay - Saint-Légier are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2004 (Les Motalles - La Châ); half of them date from 2004 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Motalles - La Châ | chairlift | 2004 | 536 m | 186 m | Coopérative des Pléiades |
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
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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