Rathvel
Rathvel is a local ski area in Fribourg with 6 km of mapped pistes and 3 lifts, between 1'190 m and 1'488 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Châtel-Saint-Denis.
Rank Rathvel against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Chenau (1'708 m), 6.2 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station ALI2. 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, 6°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Le Moléson / Les Joux (1'275 m, 3.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 35 min | 1h 18estimate |
| Bern | 1h 07 | 1h 59estimate |
| Geneva | 1h 24 | 2h 21estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 25 | 2h 23estimate |
| Lucerne | 2h 09 | 3h 20estimate |
| Basel | 2h 14 | 3h 26estimate |
| Zug | 2h 29 | 3h 46estimate |
| Zürich | 2h 44 | 4h 05estimate |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 50 | 4h 13estimate |
| Winterthur | 3h 04 | 4h 31estimate |
| Chur | 3h 15 | 4h 46estimate |
| St. Gallen | 3h 23 | 4h 56estimate |
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 Châtel-Saint-Denis Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 6 km
- Blue pistes
- 3 km
- Red pistes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 3
- Top station
- 1'488 m
- Base
- 1'190 m
- Vertical
- 298 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1.5 km, from 1'488 m down to 1'219 m
- Canton
- Fribourg
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Rathvel are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 1.7 km | 27 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 2 · 2.5 km | 31 % | 38 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 4 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Rathvel (4.2 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 Rathvel
Ski areas near Rathvel
Rathvel in numbers
13 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Châtel-Saint-Denis, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
The Federal Statistical Office publishes no hotel figures for Châtel-Saint-Denis: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
13 % of the 4'690 homes in Châtel-Saint-Denis 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 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.
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