Ski resort

Saas-Fee, Switzerland

Saastal, Valais

The Saas-Fee base: a crowd of skiers on the snow, the snowy Mischabel massif behind under a blue sky — photo qwesy qwesy · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Altitude

1,649 mbase station 3,462 mtop station 1,813 mvertical drop

Pistes 56 km red 43%, blue 43% Lifts 26 22 named on the list Snowfall

Lift pass 83 CHF per person per day www.saas-fee.ch, checked 2026-08-14 Places to stay 61 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 74 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

blue 23.7 km
red 24.1 km
black 7.7 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

83 CHF per person per day

A 1-day pass costs 83 CHF.

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 3,462 m above sea level.

Measured snow depth: 0 cm — Mälliga station (2,952 m a.s.l., 7.0 km from the resort), measured on 15 August. Measurement: SLF (IMIS), licensed CC BY 4.0.

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

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at 2,329 m above sea level.

142 Nov

144 Dec

132 Jan

89 Feb

166 Mar

144 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
day	-1°	-6°	-7°	-3°	-1°	2°
night	-7°	-11°	-13°	-10°	-9°	-5°

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: DE, FR, GB, NL. 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.

Alpin Express I gondola
Alpin Express II gondola
Bifig/Kalbermatten 1 platter lift
Bifig/Kalbermatten 2 T-bar
Egginerjoch T-bar
Felskinn cable car
Hannig gondola
Leeboden platter lift
Längfluh cable car
Längfluh Sessel chairlift
Mittaghorn platter lift
Mittelallalin 2 T-bar
Mittelallalin 3 T-bar
Mittelallalin 4 T-bar
Mittelallalin 5 T-bar
Morenia chairlift
Panoramalift T-bar
Plattjen gondola
Spielbodenbahm gondola
Spielbodenbahn gondola
Stafelwald 1 platter lift
Stafelwald 2 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.

61 within 300 m
217 within 1 km
331 places in the valley

The closest one stands 74 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

A gondola above a snowy Saas-Fee piste among the larches, skiers below — photo Paradise Chronicle · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Saas-Fee worth it?

Saas-Fee lies in Valais, at the foot of the Dom massif -- the highest peak wholly within Switzerland -- ringed by thirteen four-thousanders. The village is car-free, and here the skiing comes straight off the glacier: the top station stands at nearly 3,500 m, with the revolving Allalin restaurant at the summit.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 56 km of pistes, mostly on and below the glacier. The runs are mixed, easy and intermediate, and the glacier setting means reliable snow and the chance to ski in summer too.

The vertical here is large -- from 3,462 m at the top to around 1,650 m in the village. The downhill season is long, and the glacier can be open almost year-round.

The price we give is a one-day adult ticket -- 83 CHF 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 1,157 km from Wrocław, 1,309 from Katowice and 1,385 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.

Saas-Almagell Switzerland 4 km away · 9 km of piste
Saas-Grund Switzerland 7 km away · 21 km of piste
Macugnaga - Moro Italy 12 km away · 10 km of piste
Grächen Switzerland 13 km away · 17 km of piste
Macugnaga - Belvedere Italy 13 km away · 7 km of piste
Staldenried - Gspon Switzerland 16 km away · 7 km of piste
Visperterminen Switzerland 19 km away · 16 km of piste
Zermatt - Breuil-Cervinia Switzerland 20 km away · 328 km of piste

Compare Saas-Fee with its neighbours: Saas-Fee vs Zermatt – Cervinia · Saas-Fee vs Monterosa Ski · Saas-Fee vs 4 Vallées (Verbier) · Saas-Fee vs Grindelwald – Wengen (Jungfrau)

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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.