Moléson
Moléson is a ski destination in Fribourg with 9 km of mapped pistes and 10 lifts, between 1'109 m and 1'975 m. Mostly blue and black, 2 km black. Nearby: Bulle, Moléson-sur-Gruyères.
Rank Moléson 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), 8 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 Le Moléson / Les Joux (1'275 m, 0.9 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 | 39 min | 2h 03Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 03 | 1h 43Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 28 | 2h 53Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 29 | 3h 02Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 04 | 2h 47Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 12 | 2h 49Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 24 | 3h 15Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 40 | 2h 45Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 46 | 3h 01Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 3h 00 | 3h 17Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 3 changes |
| Chur | 3h 11 | 4h 09Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 19 | 4h 10Moléson-sur-Gruyères · 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 Moléson Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 9 km
- Blue pistes
- 5 km
- Red pistes
- 1 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 10
- Top station
- 1'975 m
- Base
- 1'109 m
- Vertical
- 866 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2.6 km, from 1'975 m down to 1'272 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Fribourg
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Moléson are
Blue: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 5.2 km | 36 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 1 · 1.4 km | 43 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 2 · 2.4 km | 45 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 58 % on Le Moléson (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 8 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Moléson (9.0 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 Moléson
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Moléson, highest first.
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 Moléson
Ski areas near Moléson
Moléson in numbers
9'964 winter hotel nights · 18 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Gruyères, 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 Gruyères sold 9'964 overnight stays, -0.7 % on 2024/25. 36 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 258 beds in 6 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 17'749; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 36 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 69 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then France 14 %, Germany 3 %, United States 2 % and Italy 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 9'964 | 36 % | 258 |
| 2024/25 | 10'033 | 33 % | 258 |
| 2023/24 | 10'047 | 37 % | 258 |
| 2022/23 | 9'880 | 44 % | 257 |
| 2021/22 | 8'711 | 32 % | 239 |
| 2020/21 | 4'053 | 19 % | 239 |
| 2019/20 | 5'791 | 26 % | 252 |
| 2018/19 | 6'725 | 31 % | 224 |
| 2017/18 | 7'226 | 31 % | 224 |
| 2016/17 | 7'182 | 29 % | 252 |
Homes
18 % of the 1'249 homes in Gruyères are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
Lifts
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2023 (Les Joux - Plan Francey); half of them date from 2015 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Joux - Plan Francey | chairlift | 2023 | 812 m | 249 m | Centre Touristique Gruyères-Moléson-Vudalla S.A. |
| Plan Francey - Le Moléson | cable car | 2015 | – | – | Centre Touristique Gruyères-Moléson-Vudalla S.A. |
| Moléson Village - Plan Francey | funicular | 1998 | 1'351 m | 411 m | Centre Touristique Gruyères-Moléson-Vudalla S.A. |
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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