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Saanenmöser

CH·Bernese Oberland◇Part of Gstaad Mountain Rides· 200kmless snow sure
family-friendlytraditionalquietrail-accessible
Linked terrain

The piste breakdown and terrain figures shown are for the whole linked area. Shuttle bus or train reaches the other resorts here, not lifts. Expect to stay in this sector most days.

Weeks 4–7

Typically -8.3°C · 37cm fresh / week · powder day 61% · mixed 35%

Top elev.
2200m
Base elev.
1270m
Pistes
200km
Lifts
53
Piste mix97km mapped
Blue62%
Red27%
Black11%
Saanenmöser
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COMPOSITE SCORE
65
Snow88
Typically 135cm
Typical depth135cm
103cm171cm
Travel41
From your origin
Size64
Piste km, discounted for linked-area connectivity
Fit50
Vibe, terrain, activities
What to expect

What to expect in weeks 4–7

Based on 29 winters of weather data, modelled at ~1357m (not the village). Any single year can be very different.

Typically stormy, around -8.3°C, with 37cm of fresh snow over the week. Powder days hit 61% of the time. Other weeks run mixed.

Icy mornings
2.9 days/week
spring-like in 43% of years
Snow texture
Settled
packed, predictable piste
Typical wind
14.5 m/s
peaks to 29 m/s
Typical Freezing level
463 m
0°C isotherm
Powder days
61%
of years see 10cm+
Rain at base
0 days
per week
Storm
50%
of years
Bluebird
15%
of years
Thaw
0%
of years
Mixed
35%
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
135cm
Temperature
-8.3°C
Fresh snow
37cm
Snow line
464m
Wind
14.5 m/s
Trend · 76 winters

Thinner snow, and warmer air

Saanenmöser's typical base has been getting slightly shallower, by 5cm a decade across 76 winters. The winter freezing level has climbed 44m a decade.

158cm
163cm
171cm
161cm
156cm
138cm
146cm
124cm
1950–1959
1960–1969
1970–1979
1980–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–2025
Winter to winter
52–316cm

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

Typical base
−34cm

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

Freezing level
+44m

Per decade. 626m in 1950–1959, 963m now. Still 307m 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)106 min
Geneva (GVA)181 min
Milan Malpensa (MXP)315 min
Zürich (ZRH)214 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.

  • OBM2slf
  • LAU2slf