Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.
Key facts
Altitude
943–2971 m
Vertical drop
2,028 m
Pistes advertised
213 km
Pistes mapped on OSM
136.1 km
Lifts (mapped near village)
23 · 74% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass
CHF 79
Passes
none
Avg snowfall (mid)
5.9 m / season
Nearest airport
ZRH · 150 min
Brochure vs map. Grindelwald Wengen advertises 213 km. OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped 136.1 km of piste centrelines.
The brochure is 57% longer than the map. Resorts often measure the widest line down a slope or count ski routes and linked areas.
Snow & weather updated 1 h ago
Fresh 24 h
0 cm
Fresh 72 h
0 cm
Next 7 days
1 cm
Snow depth top (model)
0 cm
Now at 2821 m
☁️ 1°
Now at 943 m
12°
Gusts at top
20 km/h
Freezing level
2,980 m
8-day forecast (summit)
Today
☁️
·
-1° / 3°
💨 25
Fri
🌫️
·
-3° / 1°
💨 29
Sat
☀️
·
-3° / 0°
💨 68
Sun
☀️
·
-9° / -3°
💨 81
Mon
☀️
·
-6° / 0°
💨 55
Tue
🌨️
1 cm
-9° / -2°
💨 39
Wed
☁️
·
-6° / -4°
💨 43
Thu
🌨️
1 cm
-11° / -3°
💨 52
Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 2821 m (summit) and 943 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.
The last three winters at 1957 m
Avg snowfall / season
5.9 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
10
Snowy days
75
Avg temp at base
5.2°
Average snowfall by month · best: Mar
Nov
118
Dec
114
Jan
94
Feb
39
Mar
122
Apr
101
By season: 2022/23: 5.1 m · 5 powder days2023/24: 7.9 m · 15 powder days2024/25: 4.7 m · 9 powder days
When to go
Month
Avg snowfall
Tuesday 11:00
Saturday 11:00
Dec
114 cm
~1.2 min
~1.6 min
SWEET SPOT
Jan
94 cm
~2.2 min
~2.9 min
Feb
39 cm
~4.1 min
~5.6 min
Mar
122 cm
~2.6 min
~3.6 min
Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).
Lift queues
Closed until Dec 13. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:
SIMULATION
Average wait ~5 min, worst 16 min.
Weekend: locals are outFebruary school holidays across EuropeUK half-term
Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)
9h
10h
11h
12h
13h
14h
15h
16h
Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thu 18
Fri 19
Sat 20
Sun 21
Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.
How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.
Map
· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.
Where to sleep 56 places mapped · 6 ski-in/ski-out
Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.
Pistes
Beginner
0.5 km · 0%
Easy (blue / green)
55.4 km · 41%
Intermediate (red / blue)
57.7 km · 42%
Advanced (black)
16.2 km · 12%
Expert
2.9 km · 2%
Freeride / ski route
3.3 km · 2%
Longest named runs
Stepfi
5.0 km
Lauberhorn Weltcup-Abfahrt
4.9 km
Wengernalp - Allmend
4.5 km
Arven - Brandegg
4.4 km
Grindel
4.4 km
Kleine Scheidegg - Arven
3.1 km
Aspen - Grindelwald Grund
3.1 km
Skilift Tschuggen - Aspen
3.1 km
Après & food
Bars & pubs
16
Clubs
0
Restaurants
51
Mountain huts
11
🍸 Avocado🍺 Espressobar🍸 Bus Stop Après Ride Bar🍸 Quicky-Bar🍸 Brüggbeizli🍸 Alpwäg Pisten-Beizli🍸 Holdrio Bar🍸 Schigrill & Bar Gysibielen🍸 Holzerbar🍸 Anja's Skibar🍸 Skibar Läger🍸 Buschdiglen Bar🍸 Chalet Bar🍺 Tipi Bar Kleine Scheidegg🍸 Spycherbar Männlichen🍸 Startbar
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Nearest major airport: ZRH, about 150 min away by road. Directions · Flights
Grindelwald is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Berne. In addition to the village of Grindelwald, the municipality also includes the settlements of Alpiglen, Burglauenen, Grund, Itramen, Mühlebach, Schwendi, Tschingelberg and Wargistal. Wikipedia