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Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica), Poland

Podhale, Tatry

Evening skiing at Kotelnica in Białka Tatrzańska: skiers by the floodlit lift and the snowy slope
photo Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo gallery · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Pistes 43 km blue 74%, red 26% Lifts 10 10 named on the list Snowfall
288 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass 170 PLN per person per day bialkatatrzanska.pl, checked 2026-08-14 Places to stay 2 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 49 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 31.4 km
  • red 11.2 km

The split comes from OpenStreetMap. A run with no difficulty tag falls into none of the three bars, so they can add up to less than the resort total.

Piste map

Drawn by us from open data, with terrain shading. Interactive: zoom, pan and follow the runs right here.

Base map: OpenFreeMap on data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), terrain relief: Mapterhorn
This is a geographic map, not the painted panorama a resort publishes: the runs are where they really are, but the mountain is not drawn as a bird’s-eye view.

Lift pass

170 PLN per person per day

A 1-day pass costs 170 PLN.

Resort price list · Price list checked on 2026-08-14.

When to go: Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica)

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at :elevation m above sea level.

65 65 53 40 7 Dec – 20 Dec 4 Jan – 17 Jan 1 Feb – 14 Feb
Dec Jan Feb Mar
day 0° -2° 1° 4°
night -4° -6° -5° -3°

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres. Below the axis: average day and night temperature.

The lifts usually run here from 28 Nov to 11 Apr, and that is the span of the chart. Dates published by the resort, checked 2026-08-15.

average snowfall, cm/month threshold: 70 % of the snowiest month

quiet moderate holiday peak too little snow or outside the holiday calendar snowy and quiet

The colours under the axis show school-holiday traffic per week of winter 2026/2027, from the holidays chapter — the curve is a long-term average, the traffic is this one season. A green band marks a quiet week in a month with at least 70 % of the snowiest month’s snowfall. This season: 7 Dec – 20 Dec, 4 Jan – 17 Jan, 1 Feb – 14 Feb.

This is snowfall, not snow depth on the slope: it says how much usually falls in a given month, not how much lies there. The measuring point sits close to the valley floor, so higher up it snows more.

Source: ERA5-Land (ECMWF), Copernicus Climate Data Store. Averaged over 2017–2026.

Full page on timing

School holidays and slope crowds

Which weeks of winter 2026/2027 fill these slopes with school-holiday traffic — computed from the official school calendars of the countries that ski here most. A darker week means more markets on holiday at once.

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr

quiet moderate holiday peak

Holiday dates from official sources: CZ, PL.

Lifts

Names and types from OpenStreetMap. Unnamed lifts are left out of this list, so it can be shorter than the count at the top of the page.

  • Jankulakowski chairlift
  • Kotelnica Express chairlift
  • Kotelnica I chairlift
  • Kotelnica II chairlift
  • Kotelnica III chairlift
  • Pasieka Express chairlift
  • Remiaszów chairlift
  • Wyciąg 1 T-bar
  • Wyciąg 2 T-bar
  • Wyciąg 3 platter lift

Places to stay by the lift

Distance is measured in a straight line to the base station of the nearest lift. No booking site publishes that number — it comes from matching accommodation against lift geometry.

  • 2 within 300 m
  • 45 within 1 km
  • 481 places in the valley

The closest one stands 49 m from a lift.

Work out the cost of the triptest version

The planner splits travel, lodging and lift passes by the number of people. Room prices are fetched for the dates you give.

Photos

The floodlit evening slope of Kotelnica in Białka Tatrzańska with its lifts
photo Łukasz Goryl · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica) worth it?

Białka Tatrzańska sits in the Podhale region, between Zakopane and Bukowina, where the slopes of Kotelnica, Kaniówka and Bania meet. It is a family resort in the full sense: wide, floodlit pistes, plenty of chairlifts, and a thermal-bath complex across the road that you can walk to straight off the snow.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 43 km of pistes -- a lot by Polish standards, spread over several neighbouring hills joined on the shared Tatry Super Ski pass. The runs are mostly easy and intermediate, well covered by snowmaking, with a few steeper sections on Kotelnica.

The slopes reach around 900 m and are not high, so snow here depends on the guns rather than on altitude. The season usually runs from December to March, most reliably in January and February.

The price we give is a one-day adult ticket -- 170 PLN from the high-season rate list (checked 14 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland is, per OpenStreetMap, about 363 km from Wrocław, 174 from Katowice and 101 from Kraków.

Resorts nearby

Straight-line distance, from the OpenStreetMap roster — the road through the valley is usually longer. The second figure is piste length.

  • Grapa SKI Czarna Góra Poland 2 km away · 7 km of piste
  • Koziniec SKI Poland 3 km away · 7 km of piste
  • Jurgów Ski Poland 9 km away · 10 km of piste
  • Kasprowy Wierch Poland 17 km away · 6 km of piste
  • Bachledka Slovakia 20 km away · 22 km of piste
  • Tatranská Lomnica Slovakia 25 km away · 36 km of piste
  • Štrbské Pleso Slovakia 28 km away · 7 km of piste
  • Roháče - Spálená Slovakia 32 km away · 10 km of piste

Compare Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica) with its neighbours: Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica) vs Czarna Góra Resort · Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica) vs Zakopane (Kasprowy Wierch) · Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica) vs Tatrzańska Łomnica · Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica) vs Štrbské Pleso

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Where this comes from

Piste and lift geometry and their names: OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL licence.

Terrain shading computed from public elevation data.