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Lenk

CH·Bernese Oberland◇Part of Adelboden-Lenk· 210kmless snow sure
family-friendlytraditionalquietBackcountry / off-piste
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 50–1

Typically -10.5°C · 32cm fresh / week · powder day 55% · mixed 41%

Top elev.
2200m
Base elev.
1068m
Pistes
210km
Lifts
72
Piste mix83km mapped
Blue53%
Red39%
Black8%
Lenk
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COMPOSITE SCORE
59
Snow67
Typically 97cm
Typical depth97cm
70cm126cm
Travel56
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 ~1124m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -10.5°C, with 32cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 55% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
1.7 days/week
spring-like in 16% of years
Snow texture
Powdery
soft, easy turns
Typical wind
16.2 m/s
peaks to 25 m/s
Typical Freezing level
17 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
55%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
46%
of years
Bluebird
12%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
41%
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+
80%
Depth
100cm
Temperature
-10.5°C
Fresh snow
32cm
Snow line
18m
Wind
16.2 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Lenk's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 3cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 45m a decade.

109cm
112cm
117cm
111cm
109cm
95cm
100cm
89cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
42–211cm

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

Typical base
−20cm

1950–1959 to 2020–2025. The Bernese Oberland region moved −23cm.

Freezing level
+45m

Per decade. 281m in 1950–1959, 613m now. Still 455m 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)79 min
Geneva (GVA)155 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)288 min
Zürich (ZRH)187 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.

  • FAE2slf
  • ADE2slf