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Adelboden

CH·Bern◇Part of Adelboden-Lenk· 210kmless snow sure
family-friendlytraditionalquiet
Linked terrain

Adelboden and Lenk link by piste over the Hahnenmoos pass, but that connected core is about 86 km of the region's 200. Betelberg, Engstligenalp, Elsigen-Metsch and Tschentenalp are each a ski-bus ride.

Weeks 53–3

Typically -11.5°C · 33cm fresh / week · powder day 56% · mixed 47%

Top elev.
2362m
Base elev.
1353m
Pistes
210km
Lifts
56
Piste mix83km mapped
Blue53%
Red39%
Black8%
Adelboden
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COMPOSITE SCORE
71
Snow89
Typically 137cm
Typical depth137cm
114cm165cm
Travel67
From your origin
Size65
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 1–53

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1651m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -11.5°C, with 33cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 56% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
0.3 days/week
spring-like in 2% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
16.3 m/s
peaks to 25 m/s
Typical Freezing level
85 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
56%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
43%
of years
Bluebird
10%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
47%
of years
Climatology

What a season here looks like

Each track shows the typical range across 29 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.

Reliability60cm+
100%
Depth
148cm
Temperature
-11.5°C
Fresh snow
33cm
Snow line
85m
Wind
16.3 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Adelboden's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 3cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 43m a decade.

113cm
115cm
119cm
116cm
114cm
99cm
105cm
97cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
52–202cm

Across single winters (1963–64 to 1974–75).

Typical base
−16cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Other Swiss Alps region moved −29cm.

Freezing level
+43m

Per decade. 559m in 1950–1959, 871m now. Still 482m below the village.

Calibrated reanalysis, 1950–2025. Bars are each winter's mean base, rules each decade's mean. 2020–2025 holds 6 winters, not ten. Every figure here averages a full season, so none of them will match the readings for your chosen weeks above.

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Transfers

Transfers

AirportDriveTrain
Bern (BRN)59 min
Geneva (GVA)178 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)265 min
Zürich (ZRH)167 min
Method & sources

We weigh snow reliability against this resort's own history, add live conditions where we have them, then adjust for how hard the trip is for your group.

  1. 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
  2. 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
  3. 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 30 winters.
  4. 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
  5. 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
  6. 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Sources

Snow data sources

Ground stations the score is based on.

  • OTT2slf
  • ADE2slf