Ski areas in Glarus
2 ski areas in Glarus with 66 kilometres of piste in total. Sorted by size, with seasonal status, key figures and piste map.
… Elm im Sernftal
… Braunwald
Figures are guide values still being verified. Status means seasonal status, not a live status.
How Glarus compares
Glarus has 2 ski areas with 66 kilometres of piste between them, which puts it 11th of the 14 Swiss cantons that have skiing. That is 1.0 per cent of all the piste kilometres in the country. The biggest single area is Elm im Sernftal with 40 km.
The areas sit at a median weighted altitude of 1,478 metres, 296 metres below the Swiss median of 1,774 metres. That figure weights the base station at 60 per cent and the top station at 40, because snow disappears at the bottom first. It is a choice rather than a measurement, and it knows nothing about aspect, snowmaking or where the storms actually go. Terrain here runs from 1,020 to 2,105 metres.
A day pass costs CHF 57 at the median, essentially the Swiss median of CHF 58. With only two areas that median is not a market, it is the midpoint between two prices.
The season runs 5 months at the median. There is no glacier terrain here, so the season depends on snowfall and snowmaking rather than on ice.
The nearest areas outside the canton
Measured from Elm im Sernftal. Distances are straight-line, not driving time. In the Alps a ridge between two valleys can turn 12 km into a two-hour drive.