Wagrain is a Pongau village at 838 m, plumb in the middle of Snow Space Salzburg, with 120 km of pistes linking Wagrain, Flachau and St. Johann under the wider Ski Amadé pass of 760 km. It is family country, with traditional Salzburger Land architecture and the small claim to fame of being where Silent Night was first sung in 1818.
Wagrain is a ski resort with genuine ski-in/ski-out hotels in Austria, in the Austrian Alps. The village sits at 838 m and the lifts top out at 2014 m, with 120 km of pistes and 45 lifts. Its BestSnowHotels snow score is 76/100, and the season usually runs Dec 7 → Apr 14.
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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.
A handful of well-rated hotels in and around the resort. Pick one, then compare live prices across Booking, Expedia and Hotels.com.
Excellent · 1.4k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Wagrain, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Guests rate this hotel as excellent (4.8/5 from 1,374 reviews). A mid-range option for Wagrain, with live nightly rates shown for your exact dates so you always see the best price.
Excellent · 1.0k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Wagrain, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Very good · 995 reviews
Strong value for Wagrain, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.
Excellent · 450 reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Wagrain, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Excellent · 278 reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Wagrain, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Excellent · 234 reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Wagrain, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Excellent · 224 reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Wagrain, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Excellent · 137 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Wagrain, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
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True ski-in/ski-out in Wagrain is found on the Kirchboden and Flying Mozart gondola flanks; village-centre hotels are typically a 200 to 400 m walk from a lift base.
Wagrain feels designed for the second-week family return: a tidy village with a pedestrian high street, plenty of mid-range hotels and Gasthof beds, and a Grafenberg gondola starting from the village itself. The Snow Space Salzburg circuit links three valleys across the Grießenkareck and Grafenberg summits, with a mix of cruising blues for the kids, long red descents for the adults and the Absolut Park snowpark down at Flachauwinkl for teenagers. Ski Amadé widens the horizon to 760 km, with shuttle access to Schladming, Großarl and Gastein if conditions push you to look elsewhere. Off-snow, Wagrain leans into its Christmas-carol heritage with a Silent Night museum at the schoolhouse where Joseph Mohr lived, and the surrounding hills double up for cross-country and tobogganing. Hotels in the village proper are a notch quieter and a notch better value than neighbouring Flachau.
Hotels and apartments around the lifts. Compare prices on Booking, Expedia and Hotels.com.
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Wagrain offers 120 km of pistes across 45 lifts, from 838 m to 2014 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 7 to Apr 14, 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.
True ski-in/ski-out in Wagrain is found on the Kirchboden and Flying Mozart gondola flanks; village-centre hotels are typically a 200 to 400 m walk from a lift base.
Wagrain has 120 km of marked pistes served by 45 lifts, between 838 m and 2014 m of altitude.
Wagrain counts about 77 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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