Tschiertschen
Tschiertschen is a ski destination in Graubünden with 20 km of mapped pistes and 5 lifts, between 1'355 m and 2'378 m. Mostly blue and red, 2 km black. Nearby: Praden.
Rank Tschiertschen against every ski area near Chur for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 5 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Schaftäli (2'166 m), 13.9 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station TAM3. 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 Arosa (1'878 m, 6.6 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
Parking at Tschiertschen
3 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 3 car parks by the lifts of Tschiertschen, the biggest first.
- Car park free · 500 m from the Waldstafel · by a piste · Map
- The Alpina Car park · free · 290 m from the Waldstafel · by a piste · Map
- Car park 160 m from the Gürgaletsch · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 14 min | 33 minTschiertschen, Dorf · direct |
| St. Gallen | 1h 20 | 2h 12Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 42 | 2h 36Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 53 | 1h 59Tschiertschen, Dorf · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 1h 53 | 2h 29Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 53 | 3h 02Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 58 | 2h 22Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 58 | 3h 06Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Basel | 3h 08 | 3h 04Tschiertschen, Dorf · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 3h 43 | 4h 20Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 25 | 5h 02Tschiertschen, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 27 | 5h 12Tschiertschen, Dorf · 1 change |
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 Tschiertschen Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 20 km
- Blue pistes
- 9 km
- Red pistes
- 9 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 5
- Top station
- 2'378 m
- Base
- 1'355 m
- Vertical
- 1'023 m
- Longest mapped run
- 4.3 km, from 2'377 m down to 1'358 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Tschiertschen are
Red: typical. Blue: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 4 · 6.3 km | 35 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 6 · 8.4 km | 41 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 2 · 1.5 km | 52 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 56 % on Black Jack (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 12 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Tschiertschen (16.2 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
Mountain restaurants in Tschiertschen
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Tschiertschen, highest first.
- Bergrestaurant Hühnerköpfe Restaurant · about 1'970 m · Map
- Waldstafel-Hock Restaurant · about 1'790 m · Map
- Bergrestaurant Furgglis Restaurant · 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
Ski schools at Tschiertschen
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schneesportschule Tschiertschen | CHF 160 for two hours | weekdays only |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Tschiertschen. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schneesportschule Tschiertschen
- Group lessons
- children CHF 70 per half-day (3 h), CHF 250 for five half-days
- Private lessons
- CHF 85 per hour, CHF 160 for two hours
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 10:00–13:00; group lessons on weekdays only
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 Tschiertschen
Ski areas near Tschiertschen
Tschiertschen in numbers
Hotels, homes and lifts in , 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 : it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Lifts
2 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2001 (Tschiertschen - Waldstafel); half of them date from 2001 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinezman - Hüenerchöpf | chairlift | 2001 | 944 m | 309 m | Bergbahnen Tschiertschen AG |
| Tschiertschen - Waldstafel | chairlift | 2001 | 1'386 m | 472 m | Bergbahnen Tschiertschen 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 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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