SwissSkiArea

About SwissSkiArea

An independent, ad-free reference for every ski area in Switzerland. Every figure is measured from open data or taken from official sources, so anyone can check it, correct it and reuse it.

What is a ski area?

An area of pistes connected by lifts that you can ski on one ticket. Connected areas, such as the 4 Vallées or Arosa Lenzerheide, appear once. Cross-border areas (Portes du Soleil, Zermatt–Cervinia, Samnaun–Ischgl, La Dôle–Les Tuffes) are filed under their Swiss canton, and their figures cover the whole area.

Every ski place is listed, down to the single village tow: all ski-area outlines and ski lifts mapped in OpenStreetMap inside Switzerland are included automatically. Areas that have closed for good, or whose status could not be confirmed, are shown separately and left out of the totals.

How the figures are calculated

  • Lifts – the number of lift installations. The breakdown by type and the lift list come from OpenStreetMap. Lifts with a mid-station count once. Disused lifts are excluded.
  • Pistes – the length of all mapped downhill pistes, measured along the piste line in OpenStreetMap, split into easy (blue), intermediate (red) and difficult (black). Ski routes and sledging runs are shown separately. Advertised figures are often higher, because they include slope width and overlapping variants.
  • Top & base – the highest lift station and the lowest lift station or piste end. Elevations come from signed station heights and swisstopo's swissALTI3D model, and from the Copernicus DEM abroad.
  • Day-pass prices – the adult 1-day ski pass, copied by hand from the official price list of each resort, with the source link and the date it was checked. Where resorts use dynamic pricing, the lowest published price is shown as "from". Membership in the Magic Pass is marked separately.
  • Live cams – links to the official webcam pages, found on each resort's own website. SwissSkiArea links to the cams instead of copying the images.
  • Conditions – live model data from Open-Meteo (including the MeteoSwiss ICON-CH models), calculated for the exact altitude of the top and base stations. This is a forecast, not a measured snow report.
  • Illustrations – each ski area's line drawing is generated from its real terrain: ridgelines sampled from the elevation model along the main axis of its lift network, with the summit marked in red.

Open data & AI assistants

The full dataset is free to download and reuse: resorts.json · resorts.csv. Every ski area page also exists as plain Markdown (add index.md to its URL), and llms.txt summarises the site for AI assistants. Please credit "© OpenStreetMap contributors, swisstopo".

Corrections

Lifts and pistes come straight from OpenStreetMap. If a lift or piste is missing or wrong, fix it there and the change will appear here after the next data update. Each ski area page links directly to the right spot on the map.

Sources & licences

© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · © swisstopo (Open Government Data) · Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). Mountain photo on the home page: the Matterhorn. SwissSkiArea is not affiliated with any ski resort or lift operator.