Schwarzsee
Schwarzsee is a local ski area in Fribourg with 12 km of mapped pistes and 5 lifts, between 1'049 m and 1'748 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Bad-Schwarzsee.
Rank Schwarzsee against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 4 cm, 4.4 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Fochsen (1'707 m), 3.6 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station JAU2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Schwarzsee (1'031 m, 2.2 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
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 43 min | 1h 17Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 1h 02 | 2h 04Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 39 | 2h 25Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 1 change |
| Basel | 1h 54 | 2h 26Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 54 | 2h 50Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 54 | 3h 00Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 1 change |
| Zug | 2h 00 | 2h 53Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 16 | 2h 23Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 22 | 2h 39Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 35 | 2h 48Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 3 changes |
| Chur | 3h 05 | 3h 47Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 13 | 3h 27Schwarzsee, Gypsera · 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 Bad-Schwarzsee Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 12 km
- Blue pistes
- 7 km
- Red pistes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 5
- Top station
- 1'748 m
- Base
- 1'049 m
- Vertical
- 699 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.4 km, from 1'581 m down to 1'049 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Fribourg
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Schwarzsee are
Blue: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 6.7 km | 23 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 5 · 4.0 km | 41 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 1 · 0.4 km | 48 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 51 % on 8 Kaiseregg rot (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 2
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 11 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Schwarzsee (11.1 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 Schwarzsee
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Schwarzsee, highest first.
- Hürlisboden Restaurant · about 1'510 m · Map
- Rainlihuus Restaurant · about 1'490 m · Map
- Obere Riggisalp Mountain hut · about 1'480 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 Schwarzsee
Ski areas near Schwarzsee
Schwarzsee in numbers
8'877 winter hotel nights · 23 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Plaffeien and Jaun, 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 Plaffeien sold 8'877 overnight stays, -0.5 % on 2024/25. 30 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 255 beds in 4 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 17'317; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 34 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 90 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 4 %, Netherlands 1 %, France 1 % and United States 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 8'877 | 30 % | 255 |
| 2024/25 | 8'922 | 28 % | 255 |
| 2023/24 | 9'259 | 29 % | 269 |
| 2022/23 | 11'307 | 29 % | 294 |
| 2021/22 | 10'992 | 29 % | 294 |
| 2020/21 | 10'737 | 43 % | 260 |
| 2019/20 | 5'660 | 22 % | 260 |
| 2018/19 | 7'713 | 23 % | 260 |
| 2017/18 | 7'100 | 22 % | 260 |
| 2016/17 | 6'355 | 21 % | 260 |
Homes
23 % of the 2'639 homes in Plaffeien and Jaun 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: 2015 (Schwarzsee - Riggisalp); half of them date from 2011 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schwarzsee - Riggisalp | chairlift | 2015 | 1'280 m | 438 m | Kaisereggbahnen Schwarzsee AG |
| Riggisalp - Kaiseregg | chairlift | 2011 | 1'223 m | 394 m | Kaisereggbahnen Schwarzsee 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.
Skigebiet Schwarzsee · Domaine skiable Schwarzsee · Comprensorio sciistico Schwarzsee