Saas Fee
Saas Fee is a ski destination in Valais with 48 km of mapped pistes and 30 lifts, between 1'780 m and 3'556 m. Mostly blue and red, 2 km black, 3 km ski routes. Nearby: Saas-Almagell, Saas-Balen, Saas-Fee, Saas-Grund.
Rank Saas Fee against every ski area near Bern 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 Gibidum (2'680 m), 4.3 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SAA4. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Fog, -3°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, -3°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Britanniahütte SAC (3'030 m, 3.3 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 86 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season.
Source: saas-fee.ch, “Saas-Fee | 1 Tag Erwachsen”, read .
For the size: the 2 areas on this pass map 58 km of pistes and 1'776 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 76 for . This pass is 13% 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
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Parking at Saas Fee
Saas-Fee is car-free: drivers leave the car at the entrance to the village.
Main car park: Parkhaus Saas-Fee · CHF 16 for a ski day · saas-fee.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
3 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 3 car parks by the lifts of Saas Fee, the biggest first.
- Car park paid · 180 m from the Hannig · Map
- Multi-storey car park paid · 330 m from the Hannig · Map
- Multi-storey car park paid · 370 m from the Hannig · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 59 | 2h 04Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 2h 06 | 2h 53Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 2h 08 | 3h 11Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 2 changes |
| Zug | 2h 25 | 3h 39Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 36 | 3h 36Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 38 | 3h 46Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 1 change |
| Chur | 2h 48 | 4h 33Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 49 | 3h 03Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 58 | 3h 25Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 2 changes |
| Basel | 3h 05 | 3h 11Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 3h 07 | 3h 33Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 08 | 4h 12Saas-Fee, Busterminal · 4 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 Saas-Fee Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 48 km
- Blue pistes
- 22 km
- Red pistes
- 21 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Ski routes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 30
- Top station
- 3'556 m
- Base
- 1'780 m
- Vertical
- 1'776 m
- Longest mapped run
- 8.1 km, from 3'454 m down to 1'780 m
- Advertised longest run
- 9 km, Mittelallalin – Saas-Fee
- Mountain restaurants
- 8
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Saas Fee are
Blue and black: typical. Red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 14 · 21.9 km | 24 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 20 · 22.4 km | 45 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 5 · 2.6 km | 51 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 64 % on Egginerjoch (black).
Flat stretches 2
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 39 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Saas Fee (46.9 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 Saas Fee
OpenStreetMap maps 8 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Saas Fee, highest first.
- Drehrestaurant Allalin Restaurant · about 3'460 m · Map
- Pit Stop Bar · about 2'650 m · Map
- Morenia Restaurant · about 2'580 m · Map
Show 5 more
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 Saas Fee
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Skischule Saas-Fee | CHF 240 for three hours | weekdays only |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Saas Fee. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Skischule Saas-Fee Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 68 per half-day (3 h), CHF 249 for five half-days; adults CHF 255 for 3 half-days; from age 3; groups of up to 8
- Private lessons
- CHF 80 per hour, CHF 160 for two hours, CHF 240 for three hours, CHF 400 for a day (5 h); for one person; each further person CHF 5
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 10:00–13:00; group lessons on weekdays only
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 Saas Fee
Ski areas near Saas Fee
How popular Saas Fee is
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 640'000 skier days for Saas-Fee: the 14th most in Switzerland.
How many ski here
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 640'000 skier days for Saas-Fee: the 14th most in Switzerland. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
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.
Saas Fee in numbers
172'854 winter hotel nights · 65 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Saas-Fee, 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 Saas-Fee sold 172'854 overnight stays, +13.1 % on 2024/25. 62 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'873 beds in 31 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 107'248; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 59 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 71 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 7 %, United Kingdom 6 %, France 3 % and Netherlands 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 172'854 | 62 % | 1'873 |
| 2024/25 | 152'861 | 59 % | 1'848 |
| 2023/24 | 143'024 | 62 % | 1'614 |
| 2022/23 | 144'957 | 63 % | 1'574 |
| 2021/22 | 163'280 | 67 % | 1'762 |
| 2020/21 | 149'661 | 53 % | 1'986 |
| 2019/20 | 140'515 | 55 % | 2'206 |
| 2018/19 | 193'393 | 57 % | 2'460 |
| 2017/18 | 196'165 | 60 % | 2'415 |
| 2016/17 | 197'226 | 58 % | 2'398 |
Homes
65 % of the 2'909 homes in Saas-Fee 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 Saas-Fee are offered at about CHF 14'400 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +5.6 % on a year, +4.5 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted CHF 26 million of ski-pass revenue (11th) for Saas-Fee. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
Saastal Bergbahnen AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 34.8 million revenue, CHF 31.2 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 14.1 million and CHF 4.2 million invested. Annual report 2025/26
10 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2024 (Saas-Fee - Hannig); half of them date from 1999 or earlier.
The 10 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saas-Fee - Hannig | gondola | 2024 | 1'104 m | 516 m | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Bifig – Spielboden | gondola | 2016 | – | – | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Kalbermatten - Bifig | gondola | 2016 | – | – | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Schopfen - Feegletscher | chairlift | 2006 | 1'466 m | 427 m | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Längfluh | chairlift | 2005 | 1'167 m | 286 m | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Saas-Fee - Plattjen | gondola | 1999 | 1'989 m | – | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Mast 4 - Felskinn | gondola | 1994 | 1'433 m | 390 m | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Saas-Fee - Mast 4 | gondola | 1991 | 2'905 m | 808 m | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Saas-Fee - Felskinn | cable car | 1969 | 3'631 m | – | Saastal Bergbahnen AG |
| Spielboden - Längfluh | cable car | 1959 | 938 m | – | Saastal Bergbahnen 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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