Vals
Vals is a ski destination in Graubünden with 15 km of mapped pistes and 4 lifts, between 1'282 m and 2'849 m. Mostly red, 4 km black. Nearby: Vale.
Rank Vals 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), 8.5 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, 2°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Zervreila (1'738 m, 2.9 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 39 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: vals.skiperformance.com, “1 Tag Erwachsen”, read .
For the size: the area maps 15 km of pistes and 1'567 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 57 for . This pass is 31% 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 | 50 min | 1h 33Vals, Post · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 28 | 3h 27Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 31 | 3h 53Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 1h 44 | 3h 03Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 48 | 2h 50Vals, Post · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 55 | 3h 13Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 56 | 3h 20Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| Bern | 2h 27 | 3h 57Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| Basel | 2h 52 | 3h 55Vals, Post · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 09 | 5h 11Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 48 | 5h 53Vals, Post · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 50 | 6h 03Vals, Post · 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 Vale Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 15 km
- Blue pistes
- 4 km
- Red pistes
- 8 km
- Black pistes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 4
- Top station
- 2'849 m
- Base
- 1'282 m
- Vertical
- 1'567 m
- Longest mapped run
- 6.7 km, from 2'846 m down to 1'282 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 4
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Vals are
Red: gentler than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 3.1 km | 36 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 6 · 8.4 km | 34 % | 38 % | gentler than most |
| Black | 2 · 3.5 km | 36 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 43 % on 5 (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 10 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Vals (15.1 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 Vals
OpenStreetMap maps 4 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Vals, highest first.
- Dachberghütte Restaurant · about 2'490 m · Map
- scHirmbar Bar · about 1'850 m · Map
- Gadastatt Restaurant · about 1'810 m · Map
- Ganni Restaurant · about 1'490 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 Vals
Ski areas near Vals
Vals in numbers
32'473 winter hotel nights · 53 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Vals, 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 Vals sold 32'473 overnight stays, -10.2 % on 2024/25. 45 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 494 beds in 12 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 28'198; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 56 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 74 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 11 %, France 3 %, United States 2 % and Italy 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 32'473 | 45 % | 494 |
| 2024/25 | 36'156 | 52 % | 500 |
| 2023/24 | 36'801 | 48 % | 501 |
| 2022/23 | 37'581 | 50 % | 503 |
| 2021/22 | 41'505 | 55 % | 510 |
| 2020/21 | 44'188 | 63 % | 502 |
| 2019/20 | 29'386 | 49 % | 475 |
| 2018/19 | 33'573 | 54 % | 437 |
| 2017/18 | 32'774 | 47 % | 454 |
| 2016/17 | 24'383 | 46 % | 402 |
Homes
53 % of the 1'075 homes in Vals are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2004 (Vals - Gadenstatt); half of them date from 2004 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vals - Gadenstatt | gondola | 2004 | 1'792 m | 533 m | Visit Vals 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 Vals · Domaine skiable Vals · Comprensorio sciistico Vals