Rigi
Rigi is a local ski area in Lucerne / Schwyz with 7 km of mapped pistes and 6 lifts, between 1'315 m and 1'641 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Rigi Kaltbad, Rigi Kloesterli, Rigi Kulm, Rigi Staffel, Weggis.
Rank Rigi against every ski area near Lucerne 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 Rigi 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, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Rigi Staffel (1'569 m, 0.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 20 min | 48 minWeggis, Paradiesweg · 1 change |
| Zug | 21 min | 56 minWeggis, Paradiesweg · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 46 min | 1h 22Weggis, Paradiesweg · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 54 min | 1h 38Weggis, Paradiesweg · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 02 | 1h 49Weggis, Paradiesweg · 3 changes |
| Bern | 1h 30 | 1h 59Weggis, Paradiesweg · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 1h 30 | 2h 22Weggis, Paradiesweg · 1 change |
| Chur | 1h 33 | 2h 48Weggis, Paradiesweg · 3 changes |
| Basel | 1h 39 | 1h 59Weggis · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 2h 46 | 3h 19Weggis, Paradiesweg · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 18 | 3h 58Weggis · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 19 | 4h 08Weggis · 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 Rigi Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 7 km
- Blue pistes
- 4 km
- Red pistes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 6
- Top station
- 1'641 m
- Base
- 1'315 m
- Vertical
- 327 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1.6 km, from 1'641 m down to 1'322 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 11
- Canton
- Lucerne / Schwyz
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Rigi are
Red: gentler than most. Blue: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 3 · 2.4 km | 27 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 3 · 3.8 km | 33 % | 38 % | gentler than most |
The steepest 100 m: 44 % on Wölfertschen (red).
Flat stretches 1
- Rotstock Red · 39 % of its 790 m nearly flat: on a snowboard you may have to push · Map
Long descents without flat stretches 1
- First-Klösterli Red · 322 m down over 1.8 km, steepest 100 m at 33 % · Map
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 6 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Rigi (6.2 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
Mountain restaurants in Rigi
OpenStreetMap maps 11 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Rigi, highest first.
- 1Bahnhöfli Restaurant · about 1'600 m · Map
- Alpwirtschaft Holderen Restaurant · Map
- Rigi Eventzelt Restaurant · about 1'600 m · Map
Show 8 more
- Restaurant Lok 7 Restaurant · about 1'590 m · Map
- Gratalpstübli Restaurant · about 1'450 m · Map
- Crêperie Snack bar · about 1'450 m · Map
- Hotel Alpina Restaurant · about 1'450 m · Map
- Rigi Stübli Restaurant · about 1'450 m · Map
- Rigi-Bar Bar · about 1'450 m · Map
- Sunset Restaurant · about 1'450 m · Map
- Zum Goldenen Hirschen Restaurant · about 1'320 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
About Rigi
Ski areas near Rigi
Rigi in numbers
69'760 winter hotel nights · 17 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Arth and Weggis, 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 Weggis sold 69'760 overnight stays, +5.7 % on 2024/25. 36 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'389 beds in 19 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 131'623; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 33 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 63 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 9 %, United States 4 %, United Kingdom 3 % and China 3 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 69'760 | 36 % | 1'389 |
| 2024/25 | 66'015 | 34 % | 1'329 |
| 2023/24 | 67'364 | 34 % | 1'417 |
| 2022/23 | 72'293 | 36 % | 1'501 |
| 2021/22 | 74'607 | 35 % | 1'582 |
| 2020/21 | 77'795 | 34 % | 1'649 |
| 2019/20 | 48'217 | 30 % | 1'299 |
| 2018/19 | 72'818 | 38 % | 1'346 |
| 2017/18 | 76'896 | 39 % | 1'464 |
| 2016/17 | 78'978 | 37 % | 1'513 |
Homes
17 % of the 9'214 homes in Arth and Weggis are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1968 (Weggis - Rigi Kaltbad); half of them date from 1968 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weggis - Rigi Kaltbad | cable car | 1968 | 2'320 m | – | – |
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.
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