Ski areas in Lucerne
2 ski areas in Lucerne with 65 kilometres of piste in total. Sorted by size, with seasonal status, key figures and piste map.
… Sörenberg
… Marbach – Marbachegg
Figures are guide values still being verified. Status means seasonal status, not a live status.
How Lucerne compares
Lucerne has 2 ski areas with 65 kilometres of piste between them, which puts it 12th 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 Sörenberg with 50 km.
The areas sit at a median weighted altitude of 1,384 metres, 390 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 900 to 2,350 metres.
A day pass costs CHF 49 at the median, CHF 9 less than 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 Sörenberg. Distances are straight-line, not driving time. In the Alps a ridge between two valleys can turn 12 km into a two-hour drive.