Switzerland

Eischoll

Off season
Official site

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Typical snowfall
304cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation
1,232–2,432 m
Across
3.6 km

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗

Eischoll, in Switzerland, runs from 1,232 m at the base to 2,432 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.6 km across, with 70 marked runs and 11 lifts (about 38 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 304 cm of snowfall a season, 461st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 83rd in Switzerland. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (535 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (199 cm). March still brings 77 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

The nearest city of any size is Bern, about 74 km away in a straight line.

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
304cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
199cm
The middle winter of the 12: 286 cm. The best: 535 cm.
World rank
461
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
83
of 283 in Switzerland
Elevation rank
106
Highest to lowest, of 283 in Switzerland. The centre point sits at 1,575 m, 138 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Unterbäch – Brandalp2.6 km304 cmsame grid cell461
Moosalpregion4.8 km336 cm322
Jeizinen6.9 km304 cmsame grid cell461
Visperterminen12.0 km294 cm503
Grächen12.0 km316 cm423

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
70
Run length
38km
Lifts
11
Vertical
1,200m
Top 2,432 m · base 1,232 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map3.1 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9°

Which way the slopes face

North 64%
East 27%
South 2%
West 6%

91% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 2 · 0.1 km
Easy 42 · 21 km
Intermediate 15 · 11 km
Advanced 11 · 5.4 km

Lift types

  • T-bar3
  • Chairlift3
  • Cable car2
  • Platter1
  • Rope tow1
  • Magic carpet1

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 85% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Switzerland (76%). In amount, March brings 77 cm, more than the median of 60 cm.

78cm
Dec
91cm
Jan
59cm
Feb
77cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 304 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 199 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 535 cm (2.7 times as much).

284
288
199
535
319
307
344
266
257
399
220
234
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Live cameras

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Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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