Ski resort

Obertauern, Austria

Salzburg

The Obertauern pistes in the pass bowl, a chairlift station in the middle and skiers on the slope — photo Pear Blossom · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Pistes 195 km blue 55%, red 38% Lifts 28 27 named on the list Snowfall

Lift pass 61 EUR per person per day www.ski-obertauern.at, checked 2026-08-13 Places to stay 34 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 40 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

blue 104.9 km
red 73.0 km
black 12.2 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

61 EUR per person per day

A 6-day pass costs 368 EUR.

Resort price list · Price list checked on 2026-08-13.

How much snow is forecast

No snowfall is forecast for the days ahead — computed for 2,289 m above sea level.

0 Su

0 Mo

0 Tu

0 We

0 Th

0 Fr

0 Sa

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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

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at 1,650 m above sea level.

103 Nov

131 Dec

117 Jan

100 Feb

98 Mar

65 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
day	3°	-2°	-3°	0°	2°	6°
night	-3°	-7°	-9°	-7°	-5°	-2°

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.

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, GB, NL, PL. Dates for GB are approximate — they are set locally by region, school or council.

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.

Achenrainbahn chairlift
Angerbahn chairlift
Edelweissbahn chairlift
Gamskarlift platter lift
Gamsleitenbahn 2 chairlift
Gamsleitenbahn I chairlift
Grünwaldkopfbahn mixed lift
Hochalmbahn chairlift
Hundskogelbahn chairlift
Kehrkopfbahn chairlift
Kirchbühellift T-bar
Kringsalmbahn chairlift
Monte Flu-Bahn chairlift
Panoramabahn chairlift
Pernerlift drag lift
Plattenkarbahn mixed lift
Schaidbergbahn chairlift
Schrotteralmlift T-bar
Schönalmbahn chairlift
Seekareckbahn chairlift
Seekarspitzbahn chairlift
Skischule Koch drag lift
Sonnenlift 1 chairlift
Sonnenlift 3 platter lift
Zehnerkarbahn gondola
Zentralbahn chairlift
Übungslift magic carpet

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.

34 within 300 m
76 within 1 km
88 places in the valley

The closest one stands 40 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.

work in progress

Photos

The buildings of Obertauern at slope level, snow-covered peaks rising right above the town on the Tauern pass — photo Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Obertauern worth it?

Obertauern sits differently from most Austrian resorts: not in a valley with a lift up, but on the Tauern pass itself, at around 1,740 m. The town stands at slope level and the lifts form a ring around the bowl, so a day can be laid out as a full circuit of the valley, ending back where you started.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 93 km of pistes, weighted toward easy and intermediate runs; there are few blacks. This is terrain for people who want to ski a lot of reliable, well-groomed slope rather than hunt steep faces.

The altitude of the pass makes Obertauern one of the more snow-sure resorts in Austria — it lies higher than many neighbouring valleys, so snow arrives early and holds late, sometimes into early May.

We give the ski pass as a six-day adult ticket: €368 from the resort's high-season rate list (checked 13 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland is one of the shortest in this set: about 747 km from Wrocław, 692 from Katowice, 767 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.

Zauchensee-Flachauwinkl Austria 9 km away · 44 km of piste
Fageralm Austria 12 km away · 20 km of piste
Ski amadé Austria 13 km away · 28 km of piste
Reiteralm Austria 14 km away · 29 km of piste
Fanningberg Austria 14 km away · 23 km of piste
Radstadt-Altenmarkt Austria 14 km away · 12 km of piste
Shuttleberg Flachauwinkl-Kleinarl Austria 16 km away · 62 km of piste
Großeck-Speiereck Austria 16 km away · 62 km of piste

Compare Obertauern with its neighbours: Obertauern vs Wagrain-Flachau (Snow Space) · Obertauern vs Schladming (Planai) · Obertauern vs Ankogel Mallnitz · Obertauern vs Ski Gastein (Bad Gastein)

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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.