Splügen is a heritage Graubünden village at 1,457 m on the north side of the San Bernardino, listed among Switzerland's most beautiful settlements and built almost entirely of stone and larch. The Tambo sector gives 30 km of wide, snow-sure piste up to 2,215 m. Quiet runs, traditional houses, and the old Splügen pass road over to Italy still set the tone.
Splügen is a ski resort in Switzerland, in the Swiss Alps. The village sits at 1457 m and the lifts top out at 2215 m, with 30 km of pistes and 8 lifts. Its BestSnowHotels snow score is 76/100, and the season usually runs Dec 14 → Apr 7.
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Run counts and piste kilometres are indicative. Green runs only exist in France, Spain, Andorra, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, the United States, Morocco, Algeria, Lesotho, South Africa, Egypt, Canada, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Chile; Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany start at blue. Indicative average snow depth near the top of the resort, in cm.
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Very good · 626 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Splügen, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Guests rate this hotel as very good (4.4/5 from 626 reviews). A mid-range option for Splügen, with live nightly rates shown for your exact dates so you always see the best price.
Very good · 338 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Splügen, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Excellent · 107 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Splügen, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Great · 133 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Splügen, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
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Splügen has no true ski-in/ski-out hotels; the village sits a few minutes' walk from the gondola base, and a short ski-bus loop links the more distant houses.
Splügen has been a stopover village since the Roman road from Como to Chur ran over the pass, and the centre still looks the part: blackened stone houses, larch shingles, and a cobbled square in front of the small church. The Tambo sector is a single gondola plus a few drag-lifts above the village, with wide, almost empty north-facing runs from 2,215 m back to 1,457 m and a base altitude that secures the season from mid-December to early April. It is a freeriders' quiet secret as much as a family hill: tree skiing in the larch forest, marked itineraries off the Tambo summit, and almost no queues on a powder day. The cross-country tracks along the Hinterrhein and the ski touring on the Tambo group are the local pride. Evenings are short, with a couple of long-running inns serving capuns and pizzoccheri, and the night sky above 1,457 m is uncommonly dark for a Swiss valley.
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Splügen offers 30 km of pistes across 8 lifts, from 1457 m to 2215 m. Whether it suits beginners depends on the dedicated learner zones at the base of the slopes, so check the local ski-school options for green and blue run access.
The season runs from Dec 14 to Apr 7, with a snow score of 76/100. Snow is usually most reliable in the heart of that window, deep in winter, while the closing weeks bring longer days and softer afternoon snow.
Splügen has no true ski-in/ski-out hotels; the village sits a few minutes' walk from the gondola base, and a short ski-bus loop links the more distant houses.
Splügen has 30 km of marked pistes served by 8 lifts, between 1457 m and 2215 m of altitude.
Splügen counts about 27 marked runs in total. The colour breakdown above shows how they split by difficulty, a good guide to whether the resort fits your level.
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