Leukerbad (Torrent)
Leukerbad (Torrent) is a ski destination in Valais with 24 km of mapped pistes and 8 lifts, between 1'387 m and 2'596 m. Mostly red and black, 8 km black. Nearby: Albinen, Leukerbad.
Rank Leukerbad (Torrent) against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 11 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Trubelboden (2'459 m), 4.3 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station TRU2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 2°C, wind 0 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 2°C, wind 0 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Balmhornhütte SAC (1'956 m, 9.6 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
Parking at Leukerbad (Torrent)
5 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 5 car parks by the lifts of Leukerbad (Torrent), the biggest first.
- Parking Torrent-Bahnen Underground car park · paid · by the Leukerbad - Rinderhütte · piste 50 m away · Map
- Underground car park paid · 290 m from the Leukerbad - Rinderhütte · piste 110 m away · Map
- Car park paid · by the Flaschen - Torrentalp · by a piste · Map
- Car park paid · 60 m from the Flaschen - Torrentalp · piste 50 m away · Map
- Car park paid · 360 m from the Leukerbad - Rinderhütte · 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 16 | 2h 08Leukerbad, Briggu · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 29 | 2h 04Leukerbad, Briggu · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 42 | 3h 18Leukerbad, Briggu · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 02 | 3h 44Leukerbad, Briggu · 4 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 09 | 2h 51Leukerbad, Briggu · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 11 | 3h 04Leukerbad, Briggu · 1 change |
| Zürich | 2h 24 | 3h 10Leukerbad, Briggu · 3 changes |
| Basel | 2h 24 | 3h 12Leukerbad, Briggu · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 31 | 3h 27Leukerbad, Briggu · 4 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 43 | 3h 34Leukerbad, Briggu · 4 changes |
| Chur | 2h 47 | 4h 34Leukerbad, Briggu · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 11 | 4h 13Leukerbad, Briggu · 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 Leukerbad Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 24 km
- Blue pistes
- 2 km
- Red pistes
- 14 km
- Black pistes
- 8 km
- Lifts
- 8
- Top station
- 2'596 m
- Base
- 1'387 m
- Vertical
- 1'208 m
- Longest mapped run
- 6.1 km, from 2'596 m down to 1'387 m
- Advertised longest run
- 9.7 km, Schwalbennest – Flaschen
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Leukerbad (Torrent) are
Black: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 2.1 km | 24 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 8 · 13.8 km | 39 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 5 · 7.7 km | 45 % | 51 % | gentler than most |
The steepest 100 m: 58 % on 4 Alter Stafel FIS (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 15 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Leukerbad (Torrent) (23.5 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 Leukerbad (Torrent)
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Leukerbad (Torrent), highest first.
- Rinderhütte Restaurant · about 2'310 m · Map
- Briand Restaurant · about 1'940 m · Map
- Alpengruss Restaurant · about 1'920 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 Leukerbad (Torrent)
Ski areas near Leukerbad (Torrent)
How popular Leukerbad (Torrent) is
Blick Winter Awards 2025/26: 2nd in “Best ski area: leisure and fun”
What polls say
- Blick Winter Awards 2025/26: 2nd in “Best ski area: leisure and fun”. 64'000 Blick readers voted, among 68 Swiss areas in five categories.
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.
Leukerbad (Torrent) in numbers
71 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Albinen, 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 Albinen: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
71 % of the 493 homes in Albinen 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 Leukerbad are offered at about CHF 7'000 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +1.7 % on a year, +3.1 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
4 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2008 (Rinderhütte - Schwalbennest); half of them date from 1995 or earlier.
The 4 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rinderhütte - Schwalbennest | chairlift | 2008 | 1'211 m | 312 m | Torrent-Bahnen Leukerbad-Albinen AG |
| Albinenleitern - Torrentalp | gondola | 1995 | 989 m | – | Torrent-Bahnen Leukerbad-Albinen AG |
| Torrentalp - Rinderhütte | gondola | 1995 | 1'309 m | 380 m | Torrent-Bahnen Leukerbad-Albinen AG |
| Leukerbad - Rinderhütte | cable car | 1971 | – | – | Torrent-Bahnen Leukerbad-Albinen 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 · UBS Alpine Property Focus
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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