Ski resort

Zermatt – Cervinia, Switzerland

Valais i Valle d'Aosta

The Matterhorn above the Zermatt pistes, lifts and skiers on the snow — photo Timo Newton-Syms from Helsinki, Finland & Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Altitude

2,009 mbase station 3,889 mtop station 1,880 mvertical drop

Pistes 360 km red 63%, blue 23% Lifts 65 51 named on the list Snowfall

Lift pass dynamic pricing www.matterhornparadise.ch, checked 2026-08-10 Places to stay 194 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 32 m from a lift

Piste length and lift count as given by the resort, checked 2026-08-13: www.matterhornparadise.ch

Runs by difficulty

blue 22.8%
red 62.9%
black 14.3%

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. The split itself is computed from OpenStreetMap measurements, which cover 327.9 km of runs.

Piste map

Drawn by us from open data, with terrain shading. To look at here and to print from the PDF.

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.

Download the printable map (PDF, 21 kB)

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 2026-08-10.

When to go

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at 2,541 m above sea level.

144 Nov

145 Dec

130 Jan

87 Feb

158 Mar

155 Apr

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres.

Daytime and night-time temperature, in degrees Celsius.
	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
day	-2°	-6°	-7°	-4°	-2°	1°
night	-8°	-11°	-13°	-10°	-9°	-6°

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.

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.

Baby La Vieille platter lift
Baby Salette rope tow
Bec Carré chairlift
Becca d'Aran chairlift
Blauherd - Rothorn cable car
Bontadini chairlift
Breitboden - Rosenritz chairlift
Campetto chairlift
Cieloalto chairlift
Cime Bianche Laghi gondola
Cretaz chairlift
Du Col chairlift
Eisfluh chairlift
Findelbahn (Eja-Breitenboden) chairlift
Findelbahn (Eja-Sunnegga) chairlift
Fornet chairlift
Funivia del Plateau Rosa cable car
Furgg - Sandiger Boden chairlift
Furggsattel Gletscherbahn chairlift
Furi - Trockener Steg cable car
Gant - Hohtälli cable car
Gifthittli chairlift
Gran Sometta chairlift
Grenzlift (stillgelegt) T-bar
Hirli chairlift
Hublot-Express (Gant - Blauherd) chairlift
Kumme gondola
Lago Goillet chairlift
Matterhorn Express gondola
Matterhorn Glacier Ride II gondola
Motta chairlift
Pancheron chairlift
Patrullarve chairlift
Plan Maison chairlift
Plateau Breithorn platter lift
Plateau Rosa 1 T-bar
Plateau Rosa 2 T-bar
Plateau Rosa 3 T-bar
Riffelberg-Express gondola
Rote Nase cable car
Salette gondola
Snowpark magic carpet
Sunnegga-Blauherd mixed lift
Tappeto magic carpet
Testa T-bar
Testa Grigia magic carpet
Triftji (stillgelegt) T-bar
Trockener Steg - Klein Matterhorn Glacier Ride gondola
Trockener Steg - Matterhorn glacier paradise cable car
Zermatt - Furi cable car
Zermatt–Sunnegga funicular funicular

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.