Crans-Montana
… 🧊 Glacier area
Photo: Paolo Gamba from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Crans-Montana lies in Valais and is a mid-sized ski area: 140 kilometres of piste served by 25 lifts.
The area runs from 1500 to 3000 metres above sea level, giving around 1,500 metres of vertical. That takes the terrain above the 3,000-metre mark, which markedly improves snow reliability on the upper slopes.
The ski terrain reaches up to a glacier, and the season runs Dec – April. There is no summer skiing here any more, but the state of the glacier remains a live issue.
There is a snow park, an adult day pass costs around CHF 85.
Of note: Plaine Morte glacier
Pistes by difficulty
- Leicht (blau)36 km26%
- Mittel (rot)80 km57%
- Schwer (schwarz)24 km17%
Distribution calculated from OpenStreetMap and applied to the 140 official kilometres of piste. An approximation, not a figure from the lift company.
Snow report
SLF measuring stationSource: SLF / WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. A single measuring station, not the resort’s official piste report.
Piste map, map & webcams
Interactive piste map
Every piste and lift colour-coded by difficulty, zoomable, built on OpenStreetMap.
Open on OpenSkiMap →Official piste map
The lift company’s drawn piste map, plus lift status and tickets.
crans-montana.ch →Webcams
Live images from the mountain on the resort’s official site, usually several locations.
View webcams →Piste maps and webcam images belong to the lift companies and are protected by copyright. That is why we link directly to the original instead of copying it.
Key figures
- Region
- Valais
- Season
- Dec – April
- Kilometres of piste
- 140 km
- Elevation
- 1500 to 3000 m (1,500 m of vertical)
- Lifts
- 25
- Adult day pass
- around CHF 85 (guide value)
- Summer skiing
- no
- Glacier
- yes
- Snow park
- rated 6/10
- Coordinates
- 46.311, 7.481
- Official website
- crans-montana.ch
All values are guide figures still being verified. For day-to-day information, use the resort’s official website.