Grindelwald-Wengen
The pass covers three separate ski areas. Grindelwald and Wengen share lifts, but Grindelwald-First and Mürren–Schilthorn are reached by ski bus and train rather than pistes — the pass includes those journeys.
Typically -11.8°C · 31cm fresh / week · powder day 51% · mixed 48%
What to expect in weeks 1–4
Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1593m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.
Typically mixed, around -11.8°C, with 31cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 51% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.
What a season here looks like
Each track shows the typical range across 29 winters. The marker shows where your selected weeks sit.
Thinner snow, and warmer air
Grindelwald-Wengen's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 3cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 39m a decade.
Across single winters (1963–64 to 1974–75).
1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Bernese Oberland region moved −23cm.
Per decade. 492m in 1950–1959, 788m now. Still 156m 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
| Airport | Drive | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern (BRN) | 75 min | 90 min |
| Zürich (ZRH) | 130 min | 175 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.
- 01ERA5-Land hourly grid → daily SWE & snow depth at the resort cell.
- 02Bias-correct against ground stations (SLF / Météo-France nivôse).
- 03Build per-week climatological percentile · 30 winters.
- 04Anomaly = current week vs. cell's own 30-year baseline.
- 05Snow-sure read at the highest-snow cell within ~15km. When most resorts are bare, ranking shifts toward this, surfacing glaciers in shoulder seasons.
- 06Weight + rank against your origin & vibe profile.
Snow data sources
Ground stations the score is based on.
- FIR2slf
- MAE2slf