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Mürren

CH·Bernese Oberland◇Part of Jungfrau Ski Region· 211kmless snow sure
car-freeiconic-viewquietBackcountry / off-piste
Linked terrain

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.

Weeks 53–3

Typically -16.5°C · 29cm fresh / week · powder day 51% · mixed 50%

Top elev.
2970m
Base elev.
1638m
Pistes
211km
Lifts
44
Piste mix39km mapped
Blue42%
Red38%
Black20%
Mürren
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COMPOSITE SCORE
71
Snow92
Typically 134cm
Typical depth134cm
112cm154cm
Travel61
From your origin
Size74
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 ~1070m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically mixed, around -16.5°C, with 29cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 51% of the time. Other weeks run stormy.

Icy mornings
0.4 days/week
spring-like in 4% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
19.2 m/s
peaks to 44 m/s
Typical Freezing level
-234 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
51%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
41%
of years
Bluebird
9%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
50%
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
140cm
Temperature
-16.5°C
Fresh snow
29cm
Snow line
-234m
Wind
19.2 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

The snow has held. The air has not.

Mürren's typical base has sat near 71cm since 1950, and a good winter still beats a bad one by 84cm, far more than any decade here differs from another. The winter freezing level has climbed 41m a decade.

73cm
74cm
75cm
75cm
73cm
66cm
68cm
63cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
38–123cm

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

Typical base
−11cm

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

Freezing level
+41m

Per decade. 134m in 1950–1959, 437m now. Still 1201m 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)70 min
Geneva (GVA)189 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)244 min
Zürich (ZRH)161 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.

  • LHO2slf
  • FIR2slf