Oberholz - Farner
Oberholz - Farner is a local ski area in St. Gallen with 4 km of mapped pistes and 3 lifts, between 851 m and 1'167 m. Mostly blue, no black. Nearby: Goldingen, Wald.
Rank Oberholz - Farner against every ski area near Winterthur 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 Oberholz - Farner 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 Wald / Höhenklinik (911 m, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Winterthur | 37 min | 1h 25Wald ZH, Niederholz · 1 change |
| Zürich | 40 min | 1h 14Wald ZH, Niederholz · 2 changes |
| Zug | 43 min | 2h 02Wald ZH, Niederholz · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 43 min | 1h 29Wald ZH, Niederholz · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 44 min | 2h 03Wald ZH, Niederholz · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 04 | 2h 29Wald ZH, Niederholz · 2 changes |
| Chur | 1h 16 | 2h 30Wald ZH, Niederholz · 3 changes |
| Basel | 1h 58 | 2h 32Wald ZH, Niederholz · 3 changes |
| Bern | 2h 12 | 2h 37Wald ZH, Niederholz · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 12 | 3h 51Wald ZH, Niederholz · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 59 | 4h 33Wald ZH, Niederholz · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 00 | 4h 43Wald ZH, Niederholz · 3 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 Oberholz - Farner Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 4 km
- Blue pistes
- 3 km
- Red pistes
- <1 km
- Lifts
- 3
- Top station
- 1'167 m
- Base
- 851 m
- Vertical
- 316 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1.3 km, from 1'167 m down to 846 m
- Canton
- St. Gallen
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Oberholz - Farner are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 2.6 km | 30 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 2 · 0.9 km | 47 % | 38 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 47 % on 2 (red).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 4 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Oberholz - Farner (3.6 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
About Oberholz - Farner
Ski areas near Oberholz - Farner
Oberholz - Farner in numbers
910 winter hotel nights · 13 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Eschenbach (SG), 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 Eschenbach (SG) sold 910 overnight stays, +16.1 % on 2024/25. 20 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 40 beds in 4 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 1'338; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 37 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 58 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 16 %, Spain 11 %, Italy 9 % and Austria 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 910 | 20 % | 40 |
| 2024/25 | 784 | 19 % | 32 |
| 2023/24 | 617 | 11 % | 42 |
| 2022/23 | 1'028 | 17 % | 42 |
| 2021/22 | 642 | 11 % | 42 |
| 2020/21 | 742 | 14 % | 42 |
| 2019/20 | 577 | 13 % | 42 |
| 2018/19 | 1'446 | 26 % | 42 |
| 2017/18 | 806 | 18 % | 42 |
| 2016/17 | 564 | 13 % | 42 |
Homes
13 % of the 5'055 homes in Eschenbach (SG) 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 Oberholz - Farner · Domaine skiable Oberholz - Farner · Comprensorio sciistico Oberholz - Farner