Saas Grund
Saas Grund is a ski destination in Valais with 21 km of mapped pistes and 6 lifts, between 1'553 m and 3'142 m. Mostly red, no black, 2 km ski routes. Nearby: Saas-Grund.
Rank Saas Grund 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), 4.9 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
- : Partly cloudy, -1°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, -1°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Weissmieshütte SAC (2'726 m, 1.1 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 49 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: saas-fee.ch, “Saas-Grund | 1 Tag Erwachsen”, read .
For the size: the area maps 21 km of pistes and 1'589 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 60 for . This pass is 19% less.
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 Saas Grund
Main car park: Parkplatz Talstation Saas-Grund · CHF 12 for a ski day · saas-fee.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Saas Grund, the biggest first.
- Car park paid · by the Gondelbahn Saas-Grund - Kreuzboden · by a piste · Map
- Car park 360 m from the Gondelbahn Saas-Grund - Kreuzboden · piste 150 m away · Map
- Car park 360 m from the Gondelbahn Saas-Grund - Kreuzboden · piste 90 m away · Map
- Car park 140 m from the Gondelbahn Saas-Grund - Kreuzboden · piste 160 m away · Map
- Car park paid · 40 m from the Gondelbahn Saas-Grund - Kreuzboden · piste 60 m away · Map
- Car park by the Gondelbahn Saas-Grund - Kreuzboden · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 55 | 1h 44Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 2h 01 | 2h 51Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 07 | 2h 33Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Zug | 2h 19 | 3h 19Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 39 | 3h 16Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 41 | 3h 26Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Chur | 2h 42 | 4h 13Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 43 | 2h 43Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 51 | 3h 05Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 59 | 2h 51Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 3h 01 | 3h 13Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 18 | 3h 52Saas-Grund, Bergbahnen · 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-Grund Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Saas-Grund Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 21 km
- Blue pistes
- 3 km
- Red pistes
- 15 km
- Ski routes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 6
- Top station
- 3'142 m
- Base
- 1'553 m
- Vertical
- 1'589 m
- Longest mapped run
- 8.9 km, from 3'142 m down to 1'553 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 4
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Saas Grund are
Red: gentler than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 1.0 km | 29 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 9 · 9.4 km | 32 % | 38 % | gentler than most |
The steepest 100 m: 44 % on 2 Weissmiespiste (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 10 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Saas Grund (10.5 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 Grund
OpenStreetMap maps 4 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Saas Grund, highest first.
- Berghütte Hohsaas Mountain hut · about 3'140 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Hohsaas Restaurant · about 3'140 m · Map
- Weissmieshütte SAC Restaurant · about 2'730 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Kreuzboden Restaurant · about 2'390 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 Saas Grund
Ski areas near Saas Grund
Saas Grund in numbers
31'264 winter hotel nights · 59 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Saas-Grund, 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-Grund sold 31'264 overnight stays, +31.6 % on 2024/25. 49 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 540 beds in 12 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 27'737; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 46 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 72 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then United Kingdom 10 %, Germany 6 %, Netherlands 3 % and Belgium 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 31'264 | 49 % | 540 |
| 2024/25 | 23'759 | 43 % | 516 |
| 2023/24 | 33'427 | 51 % | 563 |
| 2022/23 | 30'354 | 52 % | 464 |
| 2021/22 | 27'100 | 45 % | 491 |
| 2020/21 | 19'414 | 36 % | 396 |
| 2019/20 | 22'667 | 39 % | 512 |
| 2018/19 | 25'979 | 39 % | 491 |
| 2017/18 | 26'995 | 42 % | 493 |
| 2016/17 | 24'262 | 38 % | 493 |
Homes
59 % of the 1'212 homes in Saas-Grund are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
2 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2005 (Kreuzboden - Hohsaas); half of them date from 1997 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kreuzboden - Hohsaas | gondola | 2005 | 2'195 m | 740 m | Bergbahnen Hohsaas AG |
| Saas Grund - Kreuzboden | gondola | 1997 | 2'441 m | 845 m | Bergbahnen Hohsaas 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.
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