Oberhelfenschwil
Oberhelfenschwil is a local ski area in St. Gallen with 1 km of mapped pistes and 1 lift, between 801 m and 865 m.
Rank Oberhelfenschwil against every ski area near St. Gallen for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Oberhelfenschwil at a comparable elevation (within 500 m of the ski area's mid-mountain), so Skiboard shows no measured snow for this ski area.
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 7°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Oberhelfenschwil (763 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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| St. Gallen | 29 min | 36 minOberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 42 min | 51 minOberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 52 min | 1h 21Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 52 min | 1h 07Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zug | 59 min | 1h 54Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 4 changes |
| Chur | 1h 14 | 1h 47Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 4 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 20 | 2h 19Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 09 | 2h 25Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 3 changes |
| Bern | 2h 27 | 2h 27Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 26 | 3h 41Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 13 | 4h 23Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 14 | 4h 33Oberhelfenschwil, Dorf · 2 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 Oberhelfenschwil Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 1
- Top station
- 865 m
- Base
- 801 m
- Vertical
- 64 m
- Longest mapped run
- 0.3 km, from 865 m down to 801 m
- Canton
- St. Gallen
About Oberhelfenschwil
Ski areas near Oberhelfenschwil
Oberhelfenschwil in numbers
6'767 winter hotel nights · 17 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Neckertal, 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 Neckertal sold 6'767 overnight stays, +4.2 % on 2024/25. 21 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 231 beds in 8 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 14'210; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 31 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 58 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 38 %, Austria 1 %, France 1 % and Luxembourg 0 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 6'767 | 21 % | 231 |
| 2024/25 | 6'497 | 21 % | 231 |
| 2023/24 | 6'271 | 21 % | 221 |
Homes
17 % of the 3'366 homes in Neckertal are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
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
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 Oberhelfenschwil · Domaine skiable Oberhelfenschwil · Comprensorio sciistico Oberhelfenschwil