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Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Alpy Bawarskie (Wetterstein)

The snowy Kandahar piste at Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the grandstand and crowd during a race, firs on the slope
photo Erdkröte · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Altitude
740 mbase station 2,050 mtop station 1,310 mvertical drop
Pistes 45 km red 60%, blue 27% Lifts 18 17 named on the list Snowfall
489 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass 76 EUR per person per day www.garmisch-classic.de, checked 2026-08-14 Places to stay 0 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 544 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 12.1 km
  • red 27.2 km
  • black 5.8 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

76 EUR per person per day

A 1-day pass costs 76 EUR.

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

How much snow is forecast

No snowfall is forecast for the days ahead — computed for 2,050 m above sea level.

0 Su
0 Mo
0 Tu
0 We
0 Th
0 Fr
0 Sa
0 Su

This is a weather-model forecast, not a measurement taken on the mountain: it says how much snow is expected to fall. Forecast: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0. Data fetched 15 August, 05:26.

See where most snow is coming

When to go: Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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

96 109 78 80 52 7 Dec – 20 Dec 11 Jan – 14 Feb 1 Mar – 14 Mar
Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr
day 1° -1° 2° 5° 8°
night -6° -9° -7° -4° -1°

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

The lifts usually run here from 28 Nov to 2 May, 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, 11 Jan – 14 Feb, 1 Mar – 14 Mar.

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, DE, NL.

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.

  • Adamswiesenlift T-bar
  • Alpspitzbahn cable car
  • Bernadeinlift T-bar
  • Hausberg T-bar
  • Hausbergbahn gondola
  • Hexenkesselbahn chairlift
  • Hochalmbahn cable car
  • Kandahar-Express chairlift
  • Kinderland magic carpet
  • Kreuzeck-Zubringer magic carpet
  • Kreuzeckbahn gondola
  • Kreuzwankl Ski Express chairlift
  • Längenfelderbahn chairlift
  • Osterfelderkopflift T-bar
  • Rimmlermooslift 1 T-bar
  • Rimmlermooslift 2 T-bar
  • Trögllift T-bar

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.

  • 0 within 300 m
  • 16 within 1 km
  • 656 places in the valley

The closest one stands 544 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 snowy valley and forested slopes of the Kandahar area above Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a Bavarian Alps panorama
photo Bernd Brägelmann from Cologne, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Garmisch-Partenkirchen worth it?

Garmisch-Partenkirchen lies in the Bavarian Alps at the foot of the Zugspitze -- Germany's highest peak. The town was formed by joining two settlements before the 1936 Games and still lives on winter sport: the famous World Cup downhill on the Kandahar course is run here every year.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 45 km of pistes in the Garmisch-Classic area, on the Kreuzeck and Hausberg slopes. Separately, higher up, lies the Zugspitze glacier with its own pass. The Classic runs are mostly intermediate, with one steep race section.

The Classic slopes reach around 2,050 m and the lower ends drop to the valley at 740 m, so the vertical here is large. The season usually runs from December to April, and longer on the glacier.

The price we give is a one-day adult ticket for Garmisch-Classic -- €76 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 832 km from Wrocław, 884 from Katowice and 960 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.

  • Gletscher-Skigebiet Zugspitze Germany 8 km away · 36 km of piste
  • Ehrwald Wettersteinbahnen Austria 12 km away · 12 km of piste
  • Ehrwalder Almbahn Austria 12 km away · 18 km of piste
  • Seefeld - Gschwandtkopf Austria 17 km away · 9 km of piste
  • Seefeld - Rosshütte Austria 18 km away · 36 km of piste
  • Lermoos - Grubigstein Austria 18 km away · 24 km of piste
  • Biberwier - Marienberg Austria 18 km away · 12 km of piste
  • Berwang Austria 25 km away · 53 km of piste

Compare Garmisch-Partenkirchen with its neighbours: Garmisch-Partenkirchen vs Stubaier Gletscher · Garmisch-Partenkirchen vs Sölden · Garmisch-Partenkirchen vs Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis · Garmisch-Partenkirchen vs Pitztaler Gletscher

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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.