Niederhorn
Niederhorn is a local ski area in Bern with 8 km of mapped pistes and 8 lifts, between 1'164 m and 1'938 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Beatenberg, Merligen, Sundlauenen.
Rank Niederhorn against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 10.4 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Schibe (1'852 m), 5.7 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SHE2. 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 Beatenberg Freiland (1'560 m, 0.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 46 min | 52 minBeatenbucht · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 05 | 2h 03Beatenbucht · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 26 | 2h 31Beatenbucht · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 40 | 2h 16Beatenbucht · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 46 | 1h 55Beatenbucht · 1 change |
| Basel | 1h 47 | 1h 59Beatenbucht · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 54 | 2h 17Beatenbucht · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 2h 05 | 2h 25Beatenbucht · 2 changes |
| Chur | 2h 28 | 3h 25Beatenbucht · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 30 | 2h 58Beatenbucht · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 31 | 3h 08Beatenbucht · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 39 | 3h 04Beatenbucht · 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 Niederhorn Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 8 km
- Blue pistes
- 2 km
- Red pistes
- 6 km
- Lifts
- 8
- Top station
- 1'938 m
- Base
- 1'164 m
- Vertical
- 774 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.3 km, from 1'900 m down to 1'164 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Bern
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Niederhorn are
Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 2.4 km | 30 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 4 · 5.5 km | 41 % | 38 % | typical |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 5 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Niederhorn (7.9 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 Niederhorn
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Niederhorn, highest first.
- Bergrestaurant Niederhorn Restaurant · about 1'930 m · Map
- Bärgrestaurant Vorsass Restaurant · about 1'590 m · Map
- Buffet Restaurant · about 1'120 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 Niederhorn
Ski areas near Niederhorn
Niederhorn in numbers
80'138 winter hotel nights · 42 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Beatenberg and Sigriswil, 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 Beatenberg and Sigriswil sold 80'138 overnight stays, -2.9 % on 2024/25. 45 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'244 beds in 18 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 145'811; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 36 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 73 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 13 %, Netherlands 2 %, United Kingdom 2 % and France 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 80'138 | 45 % | 1'244 |
| 2024/25 | 82'542 | 46 % | 1'256 |
| 2023/24 | 91'996 | 48 % | 1'322 |
| 2022/23 | 99'877 | 52 % | 1'385 |
| 2021/22 | 103'537 | 54 % | 1'398 |
| 2020/21 | 102'624 | 55 % | 1'401 |
| 2019/20 | 82'548 | 50 % | 1'467 |
| 2018/19 | 107'402 | 58 % | 1'407 |
| 2017/18 | 101'117 | 56 % | 1'386 |
| 2016/17 | 102'104 | 58 % | 1'392 |
Homes
42 % of the 5'509 homes in Beatenberg and Sigriswil are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1996 (Beatenberg - Vorsass - Niederhorn); half of them date from 1996 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beatenberg - Vorsass - Niederhorn | gondola | 1996 | – | – | – |
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
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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