Madrisa
Madrisa is a ski destination in Graubünden with 27 km of mapped pistes and 12 lifts, between 1'152 m and 2'615 m. Mostly red, 3 km black, 3 km ski routes. Nearby: Klosters, Saas im Prättigau.
Rank Madrisa 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 Madrisa (2'147 m), 0.3 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station KLO2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Fergenhütte SAC (2'141 m, 8.4 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 73 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: davosklostersmountains.ch, “Tageskarte Madrisa, Erwachsene”, read .
For the size: the area maps 27 km of pistes and 1'463 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 61 for . This pass is 20% 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 AlpsPass (3 days a season): AlpsPass areas this weekend
Parking at Madrisa
Main car park: Parkplatz Talstation Madrisa, Klosters · CHF 5 for a ski day · madrisa.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
2 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 2 car parks by the lifts of Madrisa, the biggest first.
- Underground car park 180 m from the Madrisabahn · piste 260 m away · Map
- Car park paid · 80 m from the Madrisabahn · piste 50 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 | 35 min | 59 minKlosters Dorf · 1 change |
| St. Gallen | 1h 18 | 2h 05Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 58 | 2h 29Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 00 | 2h 22Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 05 | 1h 52Klosters Dorf · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 08 | 2h 15Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 12 | 2h 55Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Bern | 3h 01 | 2h 59Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Basel | 3h 04 | 2h 57Klosters Dorf · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 4h 05 | 4h 13Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 47 | 4h 55Klosters Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 49 | 5h 05Klosters Dorf · 1 change |
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 Madrisa Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Davos Klosters On sale now · SBB RailAway: up to 30% off
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 27 km
- Blue pistes
- 6 km
- Red pistes
- 16 km
- Black pistes
- 3 km
- Ski routes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 12
- Top station
- 2'615 m
- Base
- 1'152 m
- Vertical
- 1'463 m
- Longest mapped run
- 8.3 km, from 2'612 m down to 1'152 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 4
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Madrisa are
Red: typical. Blue: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 5.9 km | 31 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 7 · 15.7 km | 41 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 1 · 1.5 km | 43 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 51 % on 6 (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 13 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Madrisa (23.2 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 Madrisa
OpenStreetMap maps 4 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Madrisa, highest first.
- Zügenhüttlibar Bar · about 2'060 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Madrisa-Hof Restaurant · about 1'910 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Madrisa-Alp Restaurant · about 1'880 m · Map
- Berghaus Erika, Schlappin Restaurant · 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 Madrisa
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Skischule Klosters | CHF 309 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Madrisa. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Skischule Klosters Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 72 per half-day (1.75 h), children CHF 93 per day, CHF 259 for five half-days, CHF 339 for five days; from age 3; lunch supervision CHF 24 a day
- Private lessons
- CHF 99 per hour, CHF 209 for two hours, CHF 309 for three hours, CHF 379 for a day (5 h); for up to 2 people; each further person CHF 20
- Times
- children’s group lessons daily, 09:15–11:50 and 13:00–15:15; 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
Davos Klosters ski region
One day pass covers these 4 areas, 170 km of mapped pistes in all.
Areas and day pass: davosklostersmountains.ch, checked 13 Oct 2026
About Madrisa
Ski areas near Madrisa
How popular Madrisa is
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 1'337'000 skier days for Davos-Klosters: the 3rd most in Switzerland.
How many ski here
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 1'337'000 skier days for Davos-Klosters: the 3rd most in Switzerland. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
Klosters-Madrisa Bergbahnen AG counted 106'562 winter first entries (“Ersteintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26. Annual report 2025/26
What polls say
- Blick Winter Awards 2025/26: 3rd in “Best ski area: small and fine”. 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.
Madrisa in numbers
77'034 winter hotel nights · 65 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Klosters, 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 Klosters sold 77'034 overnight stays, -16.0 % on 2024/25. 48 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'338 beds in 22 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 77'354; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 54 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 56 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 14 %, United Kingdom 11 %, United States 4 % and Netherlands 3 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 77'034 | 48 % | 1'338 |
| 2024/25 | 91'726 | 55 % | 1'398 |
| 2023/24 | 82'570 | 50 % | 1'429 |
| 2022/23 | 80'694 | 49 % | 1'427 |
| 2021/22 | 80'973 | 46 % | 1'393 |
| 2020/21 | 60'634 | 36 % | 1'408 |
| 2019/20 | 69'730 | 46 % | 1'447 |
| 2018/19 | 80'030 | 46 % | 1'495 |
| 2017/18 | 78'644 | 51 % | 1'423 |
| 2016/17 | 73'730 | 48 % | 1'529 |
Homes
65 % of the 6'442 homes in Klosters 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 Davos / Klosters are offered at about CHF 17'800 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +12.5 % on a year, +4.9 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted CHF 54 million of ski-pass revenue (2nd) for Davos-Klosters. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
Klosters-Madrisa Bergbahnen AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 8.4 million revenue, CHF 4.1 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 977'411 and CHF 566'574 invested. Its shares trade on OTC-X. Annual report 2025/26
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2016 (Madrisa - Schaffrüggli); half of them date from 2007 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madrisa - Schaffrüggli | chairlift | 2016 | 1'891 m | 509 m | Klosters-Madrisa Bergbahnen AG |
| Donnerstein - Zügenhüttli | chairlift | 2007 | 817 m | 270 m | Klosters-Madrisa Bergbahnen AG |
| Klosters - Madrisa | gondola | 2005 | 2'298 m | 747 m | Klosters-Madrisa 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 Madrisa · Domaine skiable Madrisa · Comprensorio sciistico Madrisa