San Bernadino - Pian Cales
San Bernadino - Pian Cales is a local ski area in Graubünden with 4 km of mapped pistes and 4 lifts, between 1'620 m and 1'783 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: San Bernardino.
Rank San Bernadino - Pian Cales against every ski area near Chur for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 5 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Alp Piänetsch (2'147 m), 9.1 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station HTR2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 2°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for S. Bernardino (1'615 m, 0.4 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 25 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: sanbernardino-swissalps.com, “Skipass Pian Cales, Giornaliera (9-16.00), Adulti 18-64 anni”, read .
For the size: the area maps 4 km of pistes and 163 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 30 for . This pass is 16% 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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 59 min | 1h 20S. Bernardino, Villaggio · direct |
| Lucerne | 1h 45 | 2h 35S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 45 | 2h 23S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 1 change |
| St. Gallen | 1h 59 | 2h 53S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 05 | 2h 40S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 12 | 3h 03S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 13 | 3h 10S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 37 | 3h 47S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Basel | 3h 07 | 3h 45S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 3h 13 | 5h 01S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 50 | 5h 43S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 53 | 5h 53S. Bernardino, Villaggio · 2 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 San Bernardino Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 4 km
- Blue pistes
- 2 km
- Red pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 4
- Top station
- 1'783 m
- Base
- 1'620 m
- Vertical
- 163 m
- Longest mapped run
- 0.9 km, from 1'783 m down to 1'623 m
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in San Bernadino - Pian Cales are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 2.1 km | 30 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 2 · 1.1 km | 39 % | 38 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 45 % on FIS Slalom (red).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 4 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in San Bernadino - Pian Cales (3.2 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 San Bernadino - Pian Cales
Ski areas near San Bernadino - Pian Cales
San Bernadino - Pian Cales in numbers
71 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Mesocco, 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 Mesocco: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
71 % of the 2'347 homes in Mesocco are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
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
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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