
Duftbräu
Excellent · 860 reviews
Strong value for Hochries-Samerberg, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.

Flying into Munich Airport? These are the 12 closest ski resorts, ranked by straight-line distance from the terminal. Mountain roads wind, so allow more time by car, but the order still tells you where the snow starts soonest. Each resort has ski-in/ski-out hotels you can compare in one click.
The closest ski resort to the airport is Hochries-Samerberg, about 75 km away in Bavarian Alps.

Hochries-Samerberg is the quiet Chiemgau hill above the Samerberg plateau, 13 km of family piste between 700 m and the 1,569 m Hochries summit. The Chiemsee opens to the north for one of the prettiest sunset views in the Bavarian Alps. Half an hour from Rosenheim, an easy world away from the Sudelfeld and Spitzingsee crowds.

Excellent · 860 reviews
Strong value for Hochries-Samerberg, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.

A high lake at 1,085 m, the Stümpfling-Roßkopf ridge looking south over the water, and the BOB train running up from Munich for a long weekend. Spitzingsee is Bavaria's highest year-round village and Munich's weekend mountain, with the Tegernsee just one valley over.

Excellent · 2.1k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Spitzingsee, with guests singling out the service and comfort.

Lenggries village at 700 m, the Brauneck rising directly behind, and a train from Munich that pulls in metres from the cable car. This is Munich's home mountain, where many German Olympians cut their first turns, and one of the easiest train-accessed ski mountains in the Alps.

Very good · 433 reviews
Strong value for Brauneck-Lenggries, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.

Wallberg is one of southern Bavaria's most photogenic mountains, rising to 1,722 m straight out of the Tegernsee, with the cable car leaving from Rottach-Egern on the lakeshore. The piste map is tiny (about 8 km on three lifts), but the cult freeride descent and the lake-view panorama keep it firmly on Munich's weekend list.

Excellent · 2.0k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Wallberg-Tegernsee, with guests singling out the service and comfort.

An hour from Munich, on the Bayrischzell-Sudelfeld pass, with mellow north-facing pistes and the kind of family-and-locals atmosphere Bavarian skiers grew up on. Sudelfeld is the closest serious ski area to Munich, and it keeps the formula intentionally simple.

Very good · 1.6k reviews
Strong value for Sudelfeld, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.

Reit im Winkl sits at 700 m in a Bavarian snow-trap microclimate, with 42 km of piste linked across the Austrian border to Steinplatte-Winklmoosalm and a cross-country tradition shaped by Olympic champion Markus Wasmeier.

Excellent · 1.3k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Reit im Winkl, with guests singling out the service and comfort.

Achenkirch sits at 930 m at the northern end of the Achensee, Tirol's largest lake, with the Karwendel ridge rising straight out of the water. Three lift-linked sectors (Christlum, Maurach, Pertisau) give around 50 km of mostly blue and red piste, and the village leans hard into spa-and-ski.

Excellent · 1.1k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Achenkirch, with guests singling out the service and comfort.

Inzell sits at 690 m in the Chiemgau, tucked under the Chiemgauer Alpen, a quiet old farming village with a modest 15 km piste system on the Kessel-Bergstadl sector. The town is far better known for speedskating: the Max Aicher Arena hosts the Speedskating World Cup and produced a long line of German Olympians. For winter visitors, though, the bigger draw is the cross-country network shared with Reit im Winkl, 60 km of immaculately tracked loipe.

Excellent · 692 reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Inzell, with guests singling out the service and comfort.

A friendly Tyrolean village and a gateway to the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental, one of Austria's largest linked areas at 284 km. Gentle slopes, lively après and great value.

Excellent · 830 reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Söll, with guests singling out the service and comfort.

Oberammergau sits at 837 m in the Ammergau Alps, the Passion Play village of painted Lüftlmalerei facades, with the small Kolbensattel ski area above town and the Laber summit reserved for ski-touring.

Very good · 659 reviews
Strong value for Oberammergau, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.

Pertisau sits postcard-quiet on the western shore of the Achensee, the Karwendel cable car climbing from 950 m to 1,800 m for 24 km of family-paced piste under a limestone wall.

Very good · 2.1k reviews
Strong value for Pertisau, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.

Ellmau sits at 820 m at the foot of the Wilder Kaiser, the family heart of the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental, Austria's largest interconnected ski area at 284 km of pistes and 90 lifts. The Hartkaiser cable car lifts you straight from the village onto the linked plateau, with the famous Stanglwirt hotel and a postcard onion-domed church anchoring the centre.

Very good · 1.2k reviews
A long-standing favourite in Ellmau, trusted by thousands of guests before you.
Hochries-Samerberg, in Bavarian Alps, is the nearest at about 75 km in a straight line. By mountain road it is longer, but nothing else is closer.
As the crow flies, from the airport coordinates to each resort. It is a fair way to rank what is nearest, but real driving distance is longer on winding Alpine roads, so treat it as an order of proximity, not a transfer time.