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Szczyrk Mountain Resort, Poland

Beskid Śląski

A snowy ski meadow at Szczyrk (Biały Krzyż), skiers and the Beskid ridges behind
photo Beemwej · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Pistes 20 km blue 67%, red 26% Lifts 8 7 named on the list Snowfall
241 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass dynamic pricing www.szczyrkowski.pl, checked 2026-08-14 Places to stay 6 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 109 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 13.1 km
  • red 5.0 km
  • black 1.5 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

Prices are dynamic — they depend on the day you ski and how early you buy, so there is no single number to give. Check the resort’s price list.

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

When to go: Szczyrk Mountain Resort

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

56 70 43 23 7 Dec – 20 Dec 4 Jan – 17 Jan
Dec Jan Feb Mar
day 2° 0° 3° 7°
night -1° -3° -2° 0°

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

The lifts usually run here from 4 Dec to 4 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.

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.

  • A1 gondola
  • B1 chairlift
  • B2 chairlift
  • B5 chairlift
  • C3 platter lift
  • Snowtubing drag lift
  • Wyciąg Krasnal 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.

  • 6 within 300 m
  • 22 within 1 km
  • 340 places in the valley

The closest one stands 109 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

Skiers by a snow-covered guesthouse at the foot of the slope in Szczyrk
photo Beemwej · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Szczyrk Mountain Resort worth it?

Szczyrk lies in the Silesian Beskids, between Skrzyczne and Skalite -- two peaks reached by gondolas from the middle of town. This is an old, storied venue for World Cup races that the operator GOPASS has rebuilt almost from scratch over the past decade: new gondolas, snowmaking along the full length, and linked slopes on both sides of the valley.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 20 km of pistes -- a fair amount for Poland, mostly easy and intermediate, but with a few steep descents from the summit of Skrzyczne, the highest peak in the Silesian Beskids.

Skrzyczne reaches 1,257 m, so the vertical here is large for this part of Poland, and some runs drop almost to the town itself. The season usually runs from December to March.

The lift-pass price at Szczyrk is dynamic -- the resort sets it by day and by how far ahead you buy, cheaper in advance, so we give no single figure; check it with the operator as you book. The drive from Poland is, per OpenStreetMap, about 282 km from Wrocław, 87 from Katowice and 127 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.

  • COS Szczyrk Poland 3 km away · 14 km of piste
  • Stacja Narciarska Cieńków Poland 7 km away · 6 km of piste
  • Kompleks Pilsko-Jontek Poland 29 km away · 14 km of piste
  • Veľká Rača Slovakia 30 km away · 12 km of piste
  • Stacja Narciarska Czarny Groń Poland 31 km away · 6 km of piste
  • Orava Snow Slovakia 36 km away · 7 km of piste
  • Kubínska hoľa Slovakia 51 km away · 21 km of piste
  • Vrátna Slovakia 53 km away · 12 km of piste

Compare Szczyrk Mountain Resort with its neighbours: Szczyrk Mountain Resort vs Białka Tatrzańska (Kotelnica) · Szczyrk Mountain Resort vs Zakopane (Kasprowy Wierch) · Szczyrk Mountain Resort vs Czarna Góra Resort · Szczyrk Mountain Resort vs Donovaly

Every resort on the world map

Where this comes from

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

Terrain shading computed from public elevation data.