Obersaxen
Obersaxen is a ski destination in Graubünden with 92 km of mapped pistes and 20 lifts, between 1'245 m and 2'269 m. Mostly blue and red, 5 km black. Nearby: Flond, Lumbrein, Luven, Morissen, Surcuolm.
Rank Obersaxen against every ski area near Chur for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Alp Calasa (2'064 m), 8.7 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station VLS2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Surcuolm (1'338 m, 3 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
Adult day pass
CHF 67 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: obersaxen-mundaun.ch, “Tageskarten Obersaxen Mundaun, Tageskarte, Erwachsene”, read .
For the size: the area maps 92 km of pistes and 1'024 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 66 for . This pass is 1% more.
Skiboard’s comparison, a curve through the 141 day passes it read for that day; the km are what OpenStreetMap maps, which an operator’s own total can exceed. It says nothing about which lifts run on the day.
Day-pass prices this weekend at every Swiss ski area
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
Parking at Obersaxen
Main car park: Parkplatz Talstation Meierhof · free · obersaxen-mundaun.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Obersaxen, the biggest first.
- Car park 200 spaces · 40 m from the Vella - Triel · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · 50 m from the Meierhof - Kartitscha · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · by the Misanenga-Untermatt · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · by the Valata - Cuolm Sura · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · 40 m from the Valata - Cuolm Sura · by a piste · Map
- Car park by the Meierhof - Kartitscha · by a piste · Map
Distances are in a straight line to the bottom station of the nearest lift. Fees change: check with the car park before you go.
Car parks from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A car park missing? Fix the map
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 42 min | 59 minSurcuolm, Cavrida · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 16 | 2h 53Surcuolm, Cavrida · 3 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 22 | 3h 19Surcuolm, Cavrida · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 1h 29 | 2h 29Surcuolm, Cavrida · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 35 | 2h 16Surcuolm, Cavrida · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 41 | 2h 46Surcuolm, Cavrida · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 42 | 2h 38Vella, Sumsiaras · 3 changes |
| Bern | 2h 23 | 3h 23Surcuolm, Cavrida · 3 changes |
| Basel | 2h 42 | 3h 21Surcuolm, Cavrida · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 09 | 4h 37Surcuolm, Cavrida · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 50 | 5h 19Surcuolm, Cavrida · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 53 | 5h 29Surcuolm, Cavrida · 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 Obersaxen Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 92 km
- Blue pistes
- 47 km
- Red pistes
- 40 km
- Black pistes
- 5 km
- Lifts
- 20
- Top station
- 2'269 m
- Base
- 1'245 m
- Vertical
- 1'024 m
- Longest mapped run
- 7.3 km, from 2'269 m down to 1'262 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 14
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Obersaxen are
Red: gentler than most. Blue and black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 27 · 26.7 km | 25 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 21 · 21.5 km | 34 % | 38 % | gentler than most |
| Black | 6 · 4.5 km | 47 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 59 % on 21 Piz Mundaun - Cuolm Sura (black).
Flat stretches 2
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 54 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Obersaxen (52.7 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 Obersaxen
OpenStreetMap maps 14 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Obersaxen, highest first.
- Alp Sezner Restaurant Restaurant · Map
- Gipfelrestaurant Sezner Restaurant · about 2'270 m · Map
- Sternenbar Bar · about 2'140 m · Map
Show 11 more
- Gipfelhütte Piz Mundaun Restaurant · about 2'050 m · Map
- La Tegia Restaurant · Map
- Waschchrüt Restaurant · about 1'810 m · Map
- Kartitscha Restaurant · about 1'780 m · Map
- Bündner Rigi Restaurant · Map
- Wali Restaurant · about 1'710 m · Map
- Bodabar Bar · Map
- Leo's Snack Bar Restaurant · about 1'610 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Triel Restaurant · about 1'600 m · Map
- Cuolm Sura Restaurant · about 1'590 m · Map
- Muntaniala Bar · about 1'590 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
Ski schools at Obersaxen
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Skischule Obersaxen Mundaun | CHF 260 for three hours | not stated |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Obersaxen. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Skischule Obersaxen Mundaun Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 55 per half-day (2 h), children CHF 95 per day, CHF 265 for five half-days, CHF 325 for five days; from age 3; lunch supervision CHF 22 a day
- Private lessons
- CHF 100 per hour, CHF 180 for two hours, CHF 260 for three hours; for up to 2 people
- Times
- children’s group lessons 10:00–12:00 and 13:00–15:00
Prices as the schools publish them, the low-season price where they vary; a lift ticket and rental are not included. Skiboard sells no lessons and earns nothing from a booking. Group or private lesson, and what ski schools charge across Switzerland
About Obersaxen
Ski areas near Obersaxen
How popular Obersaxen is
Bergbahnen Obersaxen AG counted 320'778 first entries (“Ersteintritte im ganzen Gebiet”) in fiscal year 2024/25.
How many ski here
Bergbahnen Obersaxen AG counted 320'778 first entries (“Ersteintritte im ganzen Gebiet”) in fiscal year 2024/25. Annual report 2024/25
Each of the twenty areas Seilbahnen Schweiz counts had at least 411'000 skier days in winter 2025/26.
A skier day or first entry is one person on the lifts for one day, whatever the ticket. Skiboard adds no score of its own: the counts are what Seilbahnen Schweiz and the lift companies publish, the placings are polls run by others. Searches and social-media posts follow the news more than skiers, so they are left out.
Obersaxen in numbers
4'658 winter hotel nights · 72 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Obersaxen Mundaun and Lumnezia, 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 Lumnezia sold 4'658 overnight stays, +3.9 % on 2024/25. 34 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 148 beds in 7 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 4'943; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 48 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 90 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 8 %, Netherlands 1 %, United States 0 % and Austria 0 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 4'658 | 34 % | 148 |
| 2024/25 | 4'484 | 34 % | 158 |
| 2023/24 | 5'725 | 40 % | 162 |
| 2022/23 | 5'111 | 38 % | 138 |
| 2021/22 | 8'414 | 34 % | 240 |
| 2020/21 | 7'086 | 26 % | 234 |
| 2019/20 | 4'217 | 24 % | 247 |
| 2018/19 | 4'792 | 32 % | 202 |
| 2017/18 | 4'458 | 33 % | 202 |
| 2016/17 | 4'049 | 24 % | 210 |
Homes
72 % of the 5'426 homes in Obersaxen Mundaun and Lumnezia are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Upscale homes in Obersaxen Mundaun are offered at about CHF 9'000 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +1.2 % on a year, +3.0 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
Bergbahnen Obersaxen AG, fiscal year 2024/25: CHF 5.8 million revenue, CHF 5.5 million transport revenue and EBITDA CHF 2 million. Annual report 2024/25
Bergbahnen Piz Mundaun AG, fiscal year 2024/25: CHF 4.1 million revenue, CHF 4 million transport revenue and EBITDA CHF 1.4 million. Annual report 2024/25
7 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2018 (Untermatt - Stein); half of them date from 1995 or earlier.
The 7 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Untermatt - Stein | chairlift | 2018 | 1'962 m | 566 m | Bergbahnen Piz Mundaun AG |
| Vella - Triel | chairlift | 2005 | 1'230 m | 348 m | Bergbahnen Piz Mundaun AG |
| Wali - Sezner | chairlift | 1999 | 2'052 m | – | Bergbahnen Obersaxen AG |
| Meierhof - Kartitscha | chairlift | 1995 | 1'877 m | 489 m | Bergbahnen Obersaxen AG |
| Triel - Hitzeggen | chairlift | 1994 | 1'694 m | – | Bergbahnen Piz Mundaun AG |
| Wali - Stein | chairlift | 1985 | 1'431 m | – | Bergbahnen Obersaxen AG |
| Valata - Cuolm Sura | chairlift | 1981 | 1'412 m | 353 m | Bergbahnen Piz Mundaun AG |
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 · UBS Alpine Property Focus
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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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