Schatzalp/Strela
Schatzalp/Strela is a ski destination in Graubünden with 8 km of mapped pistes and 10 lifts, between 1'608 m and 2'352 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Davos Dorf, Davos Platz, Langwies.
Rank Schatzalp/Strela against every ski area near Chur 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 Davos Stilli (SLF) (1'563 m), 2.5 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SLF2. 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, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Davos Platz / Promenade (1'558 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 31 min | 1h 33Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 1h 27 | 2h 39Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 58 | 3h 03Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 05 | 2h 56Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 08 | 2h 27Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 10 | 3h 25Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 11 | 2h 45Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 3 changes |
| Bern | 2h 58 | 3h 32Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 3 changes |
| Basel | 3h 05 | 3h 27Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 59 | 4h 54Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 4 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 41 | 5h 29Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 4 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 43 | 5h 39Davos Platz, Schatzalpbahn · 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 Schatzalp/Strela Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 8 km
- Blue pistes
- 6 km
- Red pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 10
- Top station
- 2'352 m
- Base
- 1'608 m
- Vertical
- 744 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.7 km, from 2'346 m down to 1'608 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 1
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Schatzalp/Strela are
Blue: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 4 · 6.8 km | 22 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 4 · 4.4 km | 40 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 1 · 0.5 km | 65 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 39 % on 4 (red).
Flat stretches 1
- 1 Blue · 35 % of its 610 m nearly flat: on a snowboard you may have to push · Map
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 9 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Schatzalp/Strela (11.7 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 Schatzalp/Strela
OpenStreetMap maps one place to eat or drink up the mountain in Schatzalp/Strela.
- Strelapass Restaurant · about 2'350 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 Schatzalp/Strela
Ski areas near Schatzalp/Strela
Schatzalp/Strela in numbers
450'124 winter hotel nights · 59 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Davos, 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 Davos sold 450'124 overnight stays, +0.5 % on 2024/25. 49 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 6'661 beds in 56 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 354'975; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 56 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 70 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 13 %, United Kingdom 3 %, United States 2 % and Netherlands 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 450'124 | 49 % | 6'661 |
| 2024/25 | 447'790 | 51 % | 6'926 |
| 2023/24 | 467'493 | 50 % | 7'012 |
| 2022/23 | 453'298 | 49 % | 7'201 |
| 2021/22 | 461'761 | 48 % | 7'349 |
| 2020/21 | 357'026 | 39 % | 7'224 |
| 2019/20 | 424'236 | 50 % | 7'385 |
| 2018/19 | 501'321 | 54 % | 7'407 |
| 2017/18 | 498'182 | 54 % | 7'409 |
| 2016/17 | 477'399 | 51 % | 7'453 |
Homes
59 % of the 12'865 homes in Davos 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 Davos / Klosters are offered at about CHF 17'800 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +12.5 % on a year, +4.9 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
2 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1995 (Schatzalp - Strelaalp); half of them date from 1899 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schatzalp - Strelaalp | chairlift | 1995 | – | – | – |
| Davos Platz - Schatzalp | funicular | 1899 | 720 m | 303 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 · UBS Alpine Property Focus
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.
Skigebiet Schatzalp/Strela · Domaine skiable Schatzalp/Strela · Comprensorio sciistico Schatzalp/Strela