5 Best Ski Resorts in the Jungfrau Region

The Grindelwald side of that same 103 km network starts at Grindelwald Terminal, Grundstrasse 54, a building with its own BOB railway station served directly from Interlaken Ost and 1,032 parking spaces. Two gondola arms leave from under the same roof. The Eiger Express is a tricable gondola 6,483 m long with 44 cabins of 26 seats, moving 2,200 people an hour to Eigergletscher at 2,320 m in 15 minutes, which puts you on the Kleine Scheidegg sector well before anyone routing up by rack railway. The second arm is a 10-seat gondola to Männlichen, 19 minutes to a station at 2,225 to 2,230 m below the 2,343 m summit.

Männlichen is a sub-area of Grindelwald-Wengen, not a resort in its own right: the 103 km, the 21 lifts and the 1,034 m to 2,320 m range quoted in the previous entry are the same numbers, counted once. Choosing between this entry and the last one is a choice of doorway, not a choice of ski area. The practical difference is the approach. Grindelwald gives you high-capacity gondolas and a car park; Wengen gives you a car-free village and a slower, prettier climb. Season 21 November 2026 to 25 April 2027, adult day CHF 79 on the Skipass Jungfrau, with no area-only alternative on sale for 2026/27.

Pro Tip: Get off the train at Grindelwald Terminal, not at Grindelwald village station. They are different stops, and only the Terminal has the Eiger Express and the Männlichen gondola. Riders holding a Jungfrau Travel Pass ride the Eiger Express free; Swiss Travel Pass, Half-Fare Card and Berner Oberland Pass holders pay 50 per cent, though none of those covers the ski lifts themselves.

Mürren skis higher and colder than anywhere else in this guide. Pistes run from 1,645 m to 2,960 m on 13 lifts, a vertical of about 1,315 m, and the base station alone sits more than 600 m above Grindelwald's. That altitude is why Mürren-Schilthorn tends to hold its snow when the lower areas are turning to slush in late March. Piste length is genuinely disputed: the regional tourism board publishes 56 km, muerren.swiss says 51 km and skiresort.com counts 54 km. The 56 km figure is the official regional one used here, but the sources do not agree and nobody should quote it as settled.

Like Wengen, the village is car-free. You reach it either by the Lauterbrunnen-Grütschalp funicular and the mountain railway on to Mürren, or by cable car up from Stechelberg. Skiing is on the same Skipass Jungfrau at CHF 79 adult, with CHF 45 for teenagers aged 16 to 19 and CHF 38 for children 6 to 15, over the 21 November 2026 to 25 April 2027 season. The Schilthorn summit itself is a separate sightseeing transaction rather than a ski lift: Stechelberg to Schilthorn return costs CHF 115.00 and Mürren to Schilthorn CHF 91.40, and the Jungfrau Travel Pass is not listed as covering the Birg to Schilthorn top section.

Pro Tip: If the Schilthorn summit matters more to you than the skiing, ride the mountain railway up to Mürren first and buy the Mürren to Schilthorn return at CHF 91.40 rather than the Stechelberg one at CHF 115.00. That is CHF 23.60 saved for a journey you were making anyway.

First occupies the north side of the Grindelwald valley, so its slopes face the sun and look straight across at the Eiger north wall. That makes it the afternoon area, and also the first to soften in spring. The Firstbahn gondola climbs from the edge of the village to First at 2,167 m in 25 minutes through two intermediate stations, Bort and Schreckfeld, and the runs back to the valley floor at 1,034 m give a vertical of roughly 1,134 m across 10 to 11 lifts.

Piste length is the second disputed number in this guide. The regional tourism board lists 56 km, skiresort.com 49 km. The regional figure is the one quoted here, with the caveat that the published sources contradict each other by seven kilometres. Bort is where Grindelwald's beginner terrain actually sits, which is worth knowing because Bussalp, higher up the same valley, is sometimes listed as a Grindelwald ski area and has no ski lifts at all: it exists for sledging and winter walking. First runs on the Skipass Jungfrau at CHF 79 adult across the same 21 November 2026 to 25 April 2027 season, and connects to the Kleine Scheidegg side by valley train rather than by piste.

Pro Tip: Pair the two Grindelwald areas in one day: Kleine Scheidegg from Grindelwald Terminal before lunch while it is shaded and firm, First after lunch for the sun. Both are on the same CHF 79 ticket. GrindelwaldBus line 121 covers the hop between Grindelwald railway station and the Firstbahn valley station if you would rather not walk the 8 to 10 minutes carrying skis.

Meiringen-Hasliberg is not on the Jungfrau ski pass. It is a separate operator selling through the Magic Pass, and it charges its own adult day rate of CHF 65 against the Jungfrau CHF 79, with a half day at CHF 54. That single fact is the most practically useful thing in this entry: a Skipass Jungfrau in your pocket buys you nothing at these lifts, and a day here has to be budgeted on its own.

What the lower price buys is 60 km of piste split 20 km easy, 34 km intermediate and 6 km difficult, served by 13 lifts between 1,065 m and 2,433 m. The 1,368 m vertical is the biggest continuous drop of the five areas covered here. Getting there takes about 35 minutes from Interlaken Ost on the Zentralbahn Brünig line to either Meiringen or Brünig-Hasliberg. Season dates run shorter than the rest of the region: skiresort.com lists 19 December 2026 to 29 March 2027, while the operator publishes mid-December to early April, so the shoulder weeks are worth checking before you commit. It earns the fifth slot because it is genuinely separate terrain in a separate valley, not another slice of the Grindelwald-Wengen lift network.

Pro Tip: Take a late-morning Brünig-line train from Interlaken Ost and buy the CHF 54 half day rather than the full CHF 65. The 35-minute ride makes a midday start realistic, and the ticket costs CHF 25 less than a Skipass Jungfrau day for a mountain with a bigger vertical drop.