Torgon
Torgon is a ski destination in Valais with 23 km of mapped pistes and 10 lifts, between 1'335 m and 1'979 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Châtel, La Chapelle-d'Abondance, Muraz.
Rank Torgon against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 2.3 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Loz (1'984 m), 6.3 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station GRA2. 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, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Portes de Culet (1'788 m, 5.7 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
EUR 44 (CHF 40) 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: skipass-chatel.com, “1 Jour Espace Liberté (Châtel / La Chapelle / Torgon), Adulte”, read .
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 AlpsPass (3 days a season): AlpsPass areas this weekend
Parking at Torgon
Main car park: P1 Plan de Croix, Torgon · 300 spaces · torgon.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
One car park by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps one car park by the lifts of Torgon.
- Car park free · 40 m from the Djeu des Têtes · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 37 min | 1h 20estimate |
| Geneva | 1h 04 | 1h 55estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 06 | 1h 58estimate |
| Bern | 1h 36 | 2h 37estimate |
| Lucerne | 2h 32 | 3h 50estimate |
| Basel | 2h 44 | 4h 05estimate |
| Zug | 2h 54 | 4h 18estimate |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 01 | 4h 27estimate |
| Zürich | 3h 11 | 4h 40estimate |
| Winterthur | 3h 13 | 4h 43estimate |
| Chur | 3h 31 | 5h 06estimate |
| St. Gallen | 3h 45 | 5h 25estimate |
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 Torgon Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Portes du Soleil Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 23 km
- Blue pistes
- 12 km
- Red pistes
- 10 km
- Ski routes
- <1 km
- Lifts
- 10
- Top station
- 1'979 m
- Base
- 1'335 m
- Vertical
- 644 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.1 km, from 1'907 m down to 1'338 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Torgon are
Blue: typical. Red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 11 · 11.7 km | 29 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 10 · 10.4 km | 44 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
The steepest 100 m: 53 % on Onnaz (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 21 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Torgon (22.2 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour. Only the Swiss side: swisstopo’s model stops at the border.
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 Torgon
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Torgon, highest first.
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 Torgon
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| École Suisse de Ski Torgon | CHF 250 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Torgon. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- École Suisse de Ski Torgon Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 55 per half-day (2.5 h), CHF 220 for five half-days; adults CHF 275 for 5 half-days; from age 2; groups of up to 10
- Private lessons
- CHF 165 for two hours, CHF 250 for three hours; for one person; at least 1.5 h
- Times
- children’s group lessons Sunday to Friday, 10:30–13:00 and 14:30–16:30; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
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 Torgon
Ski areas near Torgon
How popular Torgon is
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 600'000 skier days for Portes du Soleil: the 15th most in Switzerland.
How many ski here
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted 600'000 skier days for Portes du Soleil: the 15th 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.
Torgon in numbers
17 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Vionnaz and Collombey-Muraz, 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 Vionnaz and Collombey-Muraz: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
17 % of the 6'694 homes in Vionnaz and Collombey-Muraz are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
In winter 2025/26, Seilbahnen Schweiz counted CHF 21 million of ski-pass revenue (16th) for Portes du Soleil. Seilbahnen Schweiz, season report
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1995 (Plan du Croix - Tête du Tronchey); half of them date from 1995 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan du Croix - Tête du Tronchey | chairlift | 1995 | 1'576 m | 552 m | Télé-Torgon SA |
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 · 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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