Nax - Mont Noble
Nax - Mont Noble is a ski destination in Valais with 19 km of mapped pistes and 5 lifts, between 1'508 m and 2'638 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Mase, Nax.
Rank Nax - Mont Noble 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 Combatzeline (2'203 m), 13.1 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station NEN3. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 2°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 2°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Thyon (2'056 m, 8.2 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 | 1h 23 | 2h 20estimate |
| Bern | 1h 31 | 2h 30estimate |
| Geneva | 1h 54 | 3h 00estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 56 | 3h 03estimate |
| Lucerne | 2h 05 | 3h 15estimate |
| Zug | 2h 25 | 3h 41estimate |
| Basel | 2h 43 | 4h 04estimate |
| Zürich | 2h 46 | 4h 08estimate |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 54 | 4h 18estimate |
| Winterthur | 3h 06 | 4h 34estimate |
| Chur | 3h 07 | 4h 35estimate |
| St. Gallen | 3h 14 | 4h 44estimate |
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 Nax Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 19 km
- Blue pistes
- 6 km
- Red pistes
- 13 km
- Lifts
- 5
- Top station
- 2'638 m
- Base
- 1'508 m
- Vertical
- 1'129 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.9 km, from 2'638 m down to 1'662 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Nax - Mont Noble are
Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 4.7 km | 10 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 9 · 10.6 km | 38 % | 38 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 45 % on La Pastorale (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 11 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Nax - Mont Noble (15.3 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 Nax - Mont Noble
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Nax - Mont Noble, highest first.
- Cabane du Mont-Noble Mountain hut · about 2'240 m · Map
- Chiesso Buvette Gauthier Café · Map
- La Dzorniva Restaurant · about 1'910 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 Nax - Mont Noble
Ski areas near Nax - Mont Noble
Nax - Mont Noble in numbers
62 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Mont-Noble, 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 Mont-Noble: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
62 % of the 1'619 homes in Mont-Noble are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2012 (La Vachette - Cabane); half of them date from 2012 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Combe – Mont Noble | chairlift | 2012 | 1'413 m | 462 m | Télé Mont-Noble SA |
| La Vachette - Cabane | chairlift | 2012 | 1'429 m | 480 m | Télé Mont-Noble SA |
| Mayens-de-Nax - Gautier | chairlift | 1979 | 985 m | – | Télé Mont-Noble SA |
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
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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