Pizol
Pizol is a ski destination in St. Gallen with 40 km of mapped pistes and 14 lifts, between 513 m and 2'250 m. Mostly blue and red, 6 km black, 4 km ski routes. Nearby: Bad Ragaz, Wangs.
Rank Pizol against every ski area near Chur for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Pizol 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, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Valens (940 m, 3.6 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 74 for . The operator’s online price for that day when it was read: an area that prices by date or demand may charge more or less when you buy. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: tickets.pizol.com, “1 Tageskarte Erwachsen”, read .
For the size: the area maps 40 km of pistes and 1'738 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 71 for . This pass is 5% 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 Pizol
Main car park: Parkplatz Talstation Wangs · CHF 6 for a ski day · pizol.com, read 30 Oct 2026
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Pizol, the biggest first.
- Car park paid · by the Bad Ragaz-Pardiel · Map
- Underground car park 170 m from the Wangs-Maienberg-Furt · piste 190 m away · Map
- Underground car park 340 m from the Wangs-Maienberg-Furt · piste 170 m away · Map
- Car park 150 spaces · paid · 70 m from the Wangs-Maienberg-Furt · by a piste · Map
- Car park paid · 100 m from the Wangs-Maienberg-Furt · piste 50 m away · Map
- Car park paid · by the Wangs-Maienberg-Furt · piste 190 m away · 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 | 24 min | 34 minBad Ragaz, Pizolbahn · 1 change |
| St. Gallen | 58 min | 1h 22Wangs, Pizolbahn · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 23 | 1h 49Wangs, Pizolbahn · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 28 | 1h 43Wangs, Pizolbahn · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 31 | 1h 13Wangs, Pizolbahn · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 35 | 1h 32Wangs, Pizolbahn · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 36 | 2h 12Wangs, Pizolbahn · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 45 | 2h 19Wangs, Pizolbahn · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 46 | 2h 14Wangs, Pizolbahn · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 3h 35 | 3h 34Wangs, Pizolbahn · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 20 | 4h 16Wangs, Pizolbahn · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 21 | 4h 26Wangs, Pizolbahn · 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 Pizol Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Pizol Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 40 km
- Blue pistes
- 17 km
- Red pistes
- 14 km
- Black pistes
- 6 km
- Ski routes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 14
- Top station
- 2'250 m
- Base
- 513 m
- Vertical
- 1'738 m
- Longest mapped run
- 7.3 km, from 2'250 m down to 513 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 10
- Canton
- St. Gallen
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Pizol are
Black: gentler than most. Blue and red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 11 · 13.7 km | 32 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 9 · 13.2 km | 42 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 5 · 4.8 km | 43 % | 51 % | gentler than most |
The steepest 100 m: 51 % on 6b (blue).
Flat stretches 3
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 25 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Pizol (31.6 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
Mountain restaurants in Pizol
OpenStreetMap maps 10 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Pizol, highest first.
- Laufbödenstübli Restaurant · about 2'230 m · Map
- Pizolhütte Restaurant · about 2'220 m · Map
- Bergwirtschaft AlteAlp Gaffia Café · about 1'870 m · Map
Show 7 more
- Berggasthaus Pardiel Restaurant · about 1'640 m · Map
- Panoramarestaurant Edelweiss Restaurant · about 1'630 m · Map
- Gasthaus Pizol Restaurant · about 1'620 m · Map
- Alpina Bar · about 1'530 m · Map
- Berghotel Graue Hörner Restaurant · about 1'520 m · Map
- Berghotel Furt Restaurant · about 1'510 m · Map
- Schönbühl 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
Ski schools at Pizol
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Skischule Bad Ragaz Wangs Pizol | CHF 220 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Pizol. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Skischule Bad Ragaz Wangs Pizol Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 50 per half-day (2 h), CHF 200 for five half-days; from age 3.5; lunch supervision CHF 30 a day
- Private lessons
- CHF 90 per hour, CHF 160 for two hours, CHF 220 for three hours; for one person; each further person CHF 30
- Times
- children’s group lessons 09:45–11:45 and 13:45–15:45; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
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 Pizol
Ski areas near Pizol
How popular Pizol is
Pizolbahnen AG counted 376'000 first entries (“Ersteintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26.
How many ski here
Pizolbahnen AG counted 376'000 first entries (“Ersteintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26. Annual report 2025/26
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.
Pizol in numbers
66'370 winter hotel nights · 15 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Vilters-Wangs and Bad Ragaz, 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 Bad Ragaz sold 66'370 overnight stays, -3.9 % on 2024/25. 48 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'066 beds in 13 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 81'028; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 46 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 64 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 12 %, United States 3 %, United Kingdom 3 % and Italy 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 66'370 | 48 % | 1'066 |
| 2024/25 | 69'047 | 51 % | 1'072 |
| 2023/24 | 73'093 | 52 % | 1'082 |
| 2022/23 | 67'212 | 50 % | 1'082 |
| 2021/22 | 66'346 | 49 % | 1'041 |
| 2020/21 | 53'037 | 44 % | 954 |
| 2019/20 | 51'598 | 44 % | 978 |
| 2018/19 | 60'617 | 49 % | 1'000 |
| 2017/18 | 64'168 | 51 % | 1'050 |
| 2016/17 | 65'710 | 49 % | 1'068 |
Homes
15 % of the 6'290 homes in Vilters-Wangs and Bad Ragaz are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
Lifts
Pizolbahnen AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 12.5 million revenue, CHF 10.5 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 4.2 million and CHF 2.2 million invested. Annual report 2025/26
6 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2016 (Schwamm - Wissi Stei); half of them date from 1999 or earlier.
The 6 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schwamm - Wissi Stei | chairlift | 2016 | 1'669 m | 520 m | Pizolbahnen AG |
| Wangs - Maienberg - Furt | gondola | 2009 | 3'214 m | 984 m | Pizolbahnen AG |
| Bad Ragaz Matells - Pardiel | gondola | 2007 | 3'358 m | 1'132 m | Pizolbahnen AG |
| Pardiel - Laufböden | chairlift | 1999 | 2'451 m | 574 m | Pizolbahnen AG |
| Furt - Gaffia | chairlift | 1991 | 1'302 m | 363 m | Pizolbahnen AG |
| Gaffia - Pizolhütte | chairlift | 1991 | 1'428 m | 381 m | Pizolbahnen 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
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.
Skigebiet Pizol · Domaine skiable Pizol · Comprensorio sciistico Pizol