Trail map
Published by Bad Kleinkirchheimer Bergbahnen, panorama by Bad Kleinkirchheimer Bergbahnen; this copy via bergfex (map by Bad Kleinkirchheimer Bergbahnen). The current official map is at Bad Kleinkirchheimer Bergbahnen.
Routable 3D map
The whole lift and piste network of Bad Kleinkirchheim is routable in the app: difficulty limits, live lift and piste status, alternative ways to the same place, and a 3D view of the terrain.
Open in SkiAllDayThe verdict
Bad Kleinkirchheim is a Carinthian ski area on two linked sectors, Kaiserburg above the village and St. Oswald to the east, with a thermal spa at the base. The operator markets 103 km of piste, of which 84 km is red and 11 km easy; we measure 67.4 km. The top is 2,055 m, so snow depends heavily on snowmaking.12345
Goes well for
- Intermediates who want wide red pistes: 84 of the operator's 103 km are red, and our graph finds an 8.2 km descent that never rides a lift
- Ski days combined with spa days: the same operator runs the Thermal Römerbad, and its Ski + Therme multi-day passes add four hours in the baths
- Families with young children: a kidsslope, a funline, a snowpark, four ski schools and a ski kindergarten from age 3
Goes badly for
- Beginners who want to leave the practice slopes: only 11 of 103 km is graded easy, and just 24% of the measured network can be reached on easy pistes alone
- Reliable spring snow: the top is 2,055 m, half the piste length lies below 1,681 m and nothing is above 2,500 m, so the area relies on snowmaking
- Skiing between the two sectors: the link from Bad Kleinkirchheim to St. Oswald runs through two slow Sonnwiesen chairs, and a forum visitor needed 1.5 to 2 hours
Key facts
Every card opens. The headline number is the answer; underneath is how it was measured and where it came from.
Elevation 985m vertical · 1,070–2,055 m
| Village | 1,087 m6 |
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| Lowest piste | 1,070 m6 |
| Highest lift-served point | 2,055 m3 |
| Vertical drop | 985 m |
The operator publishes no elevations in its facts, so the top comes from skiresort.de (2,055 m), which matches the 'Kaiserburg 2055 m' label on the operator's own piste panorama. German Wikipedia gives the Kaiserburgbahn as 1,070 m at the valley station, 1,363 m at the middle station and 2,043 m at the top; the 1,070 m is used as the base. Skiresort.de lists the valley at 1,087 m, which is also Wikipedia's average height for the municipality, so the vertical differs by 17 m between the two.
Pistes 103km 67.4 km measured from the network
- Easy 11km 11%
- Intermediate 84km 82%
- Difficult 8km 8%
Marketed vs measuredThe operator markets 103 km over 35 pistes, and skiresort.de gives the same total and the same 11, 84 and 8 km split. Our measurement of the OpenStreetMap network finds 67.4 km of piste in a single connected sector, so no part of the marketed area is detached; the 35% gap has no geographic cause. About 6.7 km of the measured length is the FIS K70 route, which the operator lists as a natural-snow ski-touring route with no alpine ski operation, so the groomed, lift-served figure is nearer 61 km. The rest of the gap we cannot attribute: operators often measure along the widest extent of a piste, and OpenStreetMap may lack some variants. OpenStreetMap also grades the network differently from the operator, at about 24 km easy, 39 km intermediate and 4 km difficult, with practice slopes and link paths counted as easy.
Lifts 24 4 types in the fleet
- Drag lift 10
- Chairlift 8
- Gondola 4
- Conveyor carpet 2
The operator counts 24 lifts, of which 4 are gondolas, 8 chairlifts and 12 drag lifts. Bergfex's lift list splits the drag lifts into 10 T-bars and platters and 2 conveyor carpets, and shows three of the eight chairs as two-seaters (Strohsackbahn and Sonnwiesenbahn I and II). The four gondolas are the two stages of the Kaiserburgbahn in Bad Kleinkirchheim, the Biosphärenparkbahn Brunnach in St. Oswald and the Nockalmbahn in Staudach. Our routing graph puts 23% of the climbing, weighted by vertical, on surface lifts.1
Season December – March winter season
| Winter season | early December – late March |
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| Lift hours | 09:00–16:00 |
Day pass EUR 73 adult, main season
| Adult | EUR 737 |
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| Youth | EUR 557 |
| Child | EUR 377 |
| Multi-resort passes | Multi-day passes are valid on consecutive days and only in the Bad Kleinkirchheim ski area. Adult 3 days in peak season (25 December to 13 March): 213 for ski only, 280 for ski plus four hours in the Thermal Römerbad; off-peak: 198 and 259. Adult 7 days: 414 and 578 in peak season, 373 and 535 off-peak. The sauna costs extra. Season card, adult, ski only: 740 in pre-sale (to 8 December 2026) and 792 at the regular rate; with the thermal bath, 1,070 and 1,122. Kärntner Skipass: the ski area is a member of this multi-area pass for 31 ski resorts in Carinthia and East Tyrol, sold separately at its own prices. Family day tickets: children travelling with at least one adult get 10% off the day ticket price. The Jungfamilienticket is for families with a non-skiing child under four, costs the adult tariff plus about 10%, is sold for multi-day tickets only and needs a photo of both parents and the child. Toddlers born 2021 or later need their own pass: 6 for up to six days, 12 for seven to twelve days. |
Tariffs for winter 2026/27, valid from 4 December 2026 to 29 March 2027, from the operator's own price page. Adult is born 1962 to 2007, youth 2008 to 2011 and child 2012 to 2020. Seniors born 1961 or earlier pay 66, and students born 2003 to 2007 pay the same 66 on showing a student card, at the ticket office only. Adult half-day tickets cost 65 (09:00 to 13:00) and 63 (12:00 to 16:00), and the three-hour ticket also costs 63. A day ticket for the valley practice lifts costs 42 for an adult.
Nearest airport about 1:00 h, 55 km Klagenfurt (KLU)
| Klagenfurt (KLU) | about 1:00 h, 55 km by road |
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| Ljubljana (LJU) | about 1:30 h, 110 km by road |
| Graz (GRZ) | about 2:15 h, 180 km by road |
| Salzburg (SZG) | about 2:30 h, 175 km by road |
| Trieste (TRS) | about 2:30 h, 200 km by road |
From Salzburg it is about 170 km and 2:45 h by the A10 Tauern motorway to the Spittal exit, then the B98 and B88. From Munich it is about 300 km and 3:45 h by the A8 and the A10. From Vienna it is about 370 km and 4:15 h by the A2 to Klagenfurt-Nord, then the B95 and B88. From Ljubljana it is about 127 km and 1:40 h. Seven lots at the lifts are free for lift guests, the largest at Römerbad (352 spaces), and they are served by the ski bus.
The mountain
These figures come from measuring the resort's actual piste and lift network rather than from its brochure. Measured from the SkiAllDay routing graph on 17 October 2026. Where the resort publishes a figure of its own, that figure is the one shown.
Piste km per lift km
1.51
Piste km opened by each kilometre of lift line. It measures how sparse the lift network is, not how good it is: a high figure means long runs off few lifts, so more skiing between rides but more traversing and more people funnelled onto each lift; a low one means dense lift service, quick laps and short waits, at the cost of repeating the same runs.
measuredLift minutes per ski hour
97 min
Time riding up for every hour spent descending, from the graph’s own traversal times.
measuredLongest continuous descent
8.2 km
The longest run of linked pistes that never rides a lift.
measuredReachable on easy runs only
24%
Share of piste a skier can reach from the base without ever descending something harder than an easy run.
measuredNorth-facing terrain
56%
Piste facing N, NE or NW, from the bearing of each descent. Shaded aspects hold snow longest.
measuredVertical on that descent
1,086 m
measuredUphill on surface lifts
23%
Share of climbing served by drag lifts and platters, weighted by vertical rather than by lift count.
measuredPiste above 2,500 m
0%
measuredMedian piste altitude
1,681 m
Half the piste length lies above this height and half below, weighted by length.
measuredMean piste gradient
18%
Length-weighted across every piste. Comparable between countries in a way that piste colour is not.
measuredPiste measured
67.4 km
measuredLift length measured
44.5 km
measuredHow steep is it, really
Piste colour is set by each resort under its own rules, so a red in one country is a blue in another. Measured gradient is comparable everywhere.
- 35% 0–10%
- 21% 10–20%
- 31% 20–30%
- 13% 30–40%
- 1% 40%+
Guide
Bad Kleinkirchheim stretches along a valley that runs west to east, from the Kaiserburg and Maibrunn lifts at the village end, through the Sonnwiesen chairs in the middle, to the Nockalm and Brunnach gondolas toward St. Oswald. The pistes are wide and mostly red.
Two sectors, one connected network
German Wikipedia describes two ski areas: Kaiserburg/Maibrunn, with two valley stations in the village, and St. Oswald/Nockalm. The operator sells them as one area with five access points, and our measurement of the OpenStreetMap network finds a single connected sector of 67.4 km of piste, so nothing in the marketed 103 km is detached. Crossing between the sectors on skis goes through the two slow Sonnwiesen chairs. A February 2023 SkiForum.pl visitor put the trip from Bad Kleinkirchheim to St. Oswald at 1.5 to 2 hours, and found the free ski bus quicker. Alpinforum.com threads from December 2025 and the 2016/17 holidays describe days when the Sonnwiesen lifts ran but the piste linking them was closed.614589
Mostly red, with four black pistes
The operator splits its 103 km into 11 km easy, 84 km intermediate and 8 km difficult. On the operator's panorama the black pistes are the Muldenabfahrt (3), the Buckelpiste Hirschsprung (4), the Weltcupabfahrt (8), which carries the name of Franz Klammer, and the Radentheiner Streif (21). Our measurement puts the length-weighted average gradient at 18%, with 35% of piste length under 10% and 14% steeper than 30%. Only 24% of the network can be reached from the base without descending something harder than an easy piste. A January 2026 Síelők.hu visitor found pistes 1, 7 and 11 unusually steep when hard or icy.210411
Snow depends on snowmaking
The top is 2,055 m and the median piste sits at 1,681 m, with no piste above 2,500 m. Bergfex quotes the operator as saying 97% of the pistes can be snowmade, with about 800 snow guns. Our measurement finds 56% of piste facing north, northeast or northwest, which suits the upper Kaiserburg pistes: a March 2025 Síelők.hu visitor found them frozen and superb while the southern lower pistes softened after noon. An r/skiing thread on a March visit calls the month a year-to-year gamble, contrasting poor valley coverage in 2024 with excellent snow in 2021.31241113
Gondolas up, slow chairs in the middle
Four gondolas carry most of the uphill traffic: Kaiserburgbahn I and II, Biosphärenparkbahn Brunnach and Nockalmbahn. The rest is eight chairlifts, of which Strohsackbahn and Sonnwiesenbahn I and II are two-seaters, and twelve drag lifts including two carpets. Our graph puts lift riding at 97 minutes for every hour of descent. A February 2026 Alpinfans visitor waited about five minutes at Nockalm at 10:00 and found the longest wait of that day at Maibrunn around 11:00.210414
| Skier | Verdict | Why |
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| Confident intermediate | excellent | The network is 84 km of wide red pistes, and our graph finds an 8.2 km descent that never rides a lift. Intermediate is the level the area is built around.24 |
| Ski and spa week | excellent | The Thermal Römerbad is run by the same company as the lifts and has 13 saunas. The Ski + Therme multi-day pass adds four hours in the baths on a ski day, at 280 for three adult days in peak season against 213 for ski only.27 |
| Second-week skier | good | Most of the network is red at a measured 18% average gradient, and 35% of piste length is under 10%. The long wide pistes suit someone gaining confidence, but pistes 1, 7 and 11 can be steep when hard.2411 |
| Family with young children | good | The operator lists a kidsslope, a funline, a snowpark, four ski schools and a ski kindergarten from age 3. Toddlers born 2021 or later need a pass at 6 for up to six days, and children get 10% off day tickets when travelling with an adult.17 |
| First-timer | fair | The area has four practice slopes (Bach, Star, Sonnleiten and St. Oswald), a ski kindergarten from age 3 and a day ticket for the valley practice lifts at 42 for an adult. Beyond them only 11 of 103 km is graded easy, and 24% of the measured network is reachable without a harder piste.151724 |
| Advanced skier | fair | Black is 8 km of the operator's 103 km and the pistes top out at 2,055 m. The black list includes the Buckelpiste Hirschsprung, a mogul piste by name, and the Weltcupabfahrt Franz Klammer, which our graph measures at about 30% average gradient over 1.8 km. There is little else to progress to.2104 |
| Spring skier | poor | With a top of 2,055 m and no piste above 2,500 m, the area relies on snowmaking and the operator plans to close on 29 March 2027. An r/skiing thread calls March a gamble from year to year.34713 |
By car
From Salzburg it is about 170 km and 2:45 h by the A10 Tauern motorway to the Spittal exit, then the B98 and B88. From Munich it is about 300 km and 3:45 h by the A8 and the A10. From Vienna it is about 370 km and 4:15 h by the A2 to Klagenfurt-Nord, then the B95 and B88. From Ljubljana it is about 127 km and 1:40 h. Seven lots at the lifts are free for lift guests, the largest at Römerbad (352 spaces), and they are served by the ski bus.
By train
The nearest mainline stations are Spittal-Millstättersee (about 30 km), Villach Hauptbahnhof (about 35 km) and Feldkirchen in Kärnten (about 30 km). From there the operator points to the Nockmobil on-demand service, regional buses or a shuttle. Within the resort the free Ski-Thermen-Bus Line A runs daily from 08:30 to 17:00 and links the five valley stations and the Thermal Römerbad, every 15 minutes in peak season and every 30 minutes otherwise (2025/26 timetable).
Where to base yourself
| Bad Kleinkirchheim | Kaiserburgbahn and Thermal Römerbad (Dorfstraße 74), Maibrunnbahn (Dorfstraße 24) and Sonnwiesenbahn; the western sector |
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| Staudach | Valley station of the Nockalmbahn, St. Oswalder Straße 81, with a 250-space lot |
| St. Oswald | Biosphärenparkbahn Brunnach (Trattenstraße), the eastern sector, with a 230-space lot |
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Panorama-Restaurant Nock IN
The mountain restaurant at the Brunnach summit. The operator's 2025/26 partner info names it as the stop for ski tourers on the four full-moon evenings when the Brunnachabfahrt is opened to them, and skiresort.de lists it among the huts in the ski area. The operator counts 22 huts in the area in total.1632
What skiers say
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Be at the Biosphärenparkbahn Brunnach by about 08:40 and ride straight on to Spitzeck.177
A February 2026 Alpinfans report saw the Brunnach gondola loading at 08:45, although the operator publishes 09:00 as the start of the operating day. Treat the early loading as one visitor's observation, not a promise.
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Ski the Wiesernock side before about 10:00 and be off the Nockalmbahn queue before midday.1485
A February 2026 Alpinfans visitor found five minutes at Nockalm at 10:00. The alpinforum.com thread for 2025/26 and a February 2023 SkiForum.pl report put the wait at 5 to 10 minutes, and Priedröf also draws clusters.
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Schedule Maibrunn before about 10:30 on busy days.14
On a busy day in February 2026 an Alpinfans visitor waited longest at Maibrunn, around 11:00, while most other lifts that day took about a minute.
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At Christmas and New Year, ride a base gondola once early, then lap Maibrunn, Strohsack, Spitzeck or Scharte instead of returning to Kaiserburg, Brunnach or Nockalm.81811
The holiday reports differ. Posts from December 2025 and December 2024 on alpinforum.com, Alpinfans and Síelők.hu include a Brunnach queue of about 20 minutes at 09:00 and, in another, almost no waiting away from the two base gondolas and Nockalm.
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If you stay in Bad Kleinkirchheim, take the morning ski bus east to Brunnach and ski back west in the afternoon.519
A February 2023 SkiForum.pl visitor staying four days found the bus much quicker than skiing from Bad Kleinkirchheim toward St. Oswald, which took 1.5 to 2 hours through the two slow Sonnwiesen chairs. In 2025/26 the operator's free Line A linked the five valley stations every 15 minutes in peak season and every 30 minutes otherwise.
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Use the free lift lots: Brunnach has 230 spaces, Nockalm 250 and Maibrunn 230, with 352 at Römerbad and 190 at Kaiserburg.2011
A February 2025 Síelők.hu visitor found the free lots less than half full. Brunnach suits a St. Oswald-first day, and Maibrunn gives direct access to the western sector.
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Check the Sonnwiesen pistes as well as the lift status before planning a day across both sectors, and take the bus if the ski link is shut.8921
Alpinforum.com threads from December 2025 and the 2016/17 holidays describe days when the Sonnwiesen lifts ran while the connecting piste was closed or usable only as a lift-assisted transfer. Line A is the fallback between the valley stations.
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Ski the Wiesernockabfahrt when it is open, and time it to miss the Nockalmbahn queue at the bottom.1422
Alpinfans posters in February 2026 and an alpinforum.com post in January 2026 rate it among the best-snow pistes in the area. The awkward return and the low capacity of the Nockalmbahn keep it quieter.
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Ski the sunny Brunnach, Spitzeck and St. Oswald pistes on cold December and January mornings, and keep the north-facing Strohsack and Franz Klammer pistes for warm spring afternoons.23178
An alpinforum.com report of 12 March 2011 found Franz Klammer still hard and grippy around 15:00 while sunnier intermediate pistes had softened. Alpinfans and alpinforum.com posts from winter 2025/26 describe the sunny St. Oswald side as the more comfortable one in early winter.
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Finish on the Millstätter See Bahn and Höhenlift for late laps in the sun.1724
An Alpinfans visitor in January 2026 ended there on purpose because the pistes stayed sunny after others had scraped off. A January 2010 alpinforum.com report found Wiesernock quieter than the sunny Scharte.
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When wind closes the exposed St. Oswald ridge from the Höhenlift onward, switch to the forested Maibrunn, Strohsack and Kaiserburg sector.189
An Alpinfans visitor in January 2025 found the upper St. Oswald half closed while Maibrunn and the World Cup side kept running. The alpinforum.com report from the 2016/17 holidays also singles out the forested pistes in storms.
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Ask your accommodation what passes it sells before buying online, and compare an all-Carinthia pass with the local one.117
In February 2026 a Síelők.hu guest was quoted EUR 202 for three days of the local pass, then bought a three-day all-Carinthia pass at reception for EUR 181. That price was specific to the accommodation and to 2025/26; the 2026/27 local three-day adult price is EUR 213 in peak season and EUR 198 off-peak.
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Compare Ski oder Therme with Ski + Therme before buying a multi-day pass if you want the Römerbad.7
Ski oder Therme lets you use the ski area or the spa on a given day. Ski + Therme adds four hours in the baths on the same day, with the sauna extra. For 2026/27 the adult three-day prices are EUR 213 and EUR 280 in peak season.
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For self-catering, a Billa and a Spar are about five minutes on foot from the Bachlift area.11
That is a February 2026 report from a Síelők.hu visitor, who also found the ski link from there to Maibrunn less convenient than the map suggests.
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At the Kaiserburg mountain restaurant, ask whether the set menu is available before ordering à la carte.11
A March 2025 Síelők.hu visitor paid EUR 17 for a main course and dessert, against EUR 6 for a beer and EUR 4 for a coffee. Those are 2025 prices.
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Do not treat pistes 1, 7 and 11 beside the Kaiserburgbahn and Maibrunnbahn as gentle reds.11
A January 2026 Síelők.hu visitor found these three unusually steep when hard or icy, while a March 2025 poster in the same thread thought many local reds would be blue elsewhere.
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Do not share an ordinary multi-day pass between parents who take turns with the children.117
In February 2026 Síelők.hu posters reported groups stopped at the gate after photos linked a pass to a different person. The operator states that every ticket is personal and non-transferable, and sells a Jungfamilienticket for families with a non-skiing child under four, as a multi-day ticket at the adult tariff plus about 10%.
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Do not assume the Bachlift area connects smoothly to the Maibrunnbahn on skis.11
A January 2026 Síelők.hu guest found the route blocked by the busy practice area and an asphalt road, so walking or heavy poling was needed.
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Respect a closed Sonnwiesen piste even when most of it looks groomed from the lift.8
In December 2025 an alpinforum.com poster described a piste that looked finished but was officially closed because one traverse had narrowed to roughly one piste-machine track.
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Keep March plans flexible and judge conditions by the piste report rather than resort-wide snow depth.1311
An r/skiing thread on a March visit calls the month a year-to-year gamble, contrasting poor valley coverage in 2024 with excellent conditions in 2021. A March 2025 Síelők.hu visitor found superb frozen north-facing pistes but soft southern lower pistes after noon.
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Bring sharp edges after a warm day and a cold night, and leave lower Sonnwiesen once it is polished.111817
Síelők.hu posts from February 2024 and Alpinfans posts from January 2025 and January 2026 describe thin machine-made surfaces turning icy despite modest traffic, with the north-facing upper Kaiserburg pistes staying firm longer.
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Treat the outer Mulde and other natural-snow variants as bonus terrain until real snow arrives.188
An Alpinfans visitor in January 2025 found only the central Muldenlift piste open, with stones showing and the outer lines unavailable. The December 2025 alpinforum.com thread also notes bare ground beside open pistes.
History
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1957
A first ski lift opens in Kleinkirchheim in 1956/57; at 620 m it is the longest in Carinthia at the time.6
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1977
The Nockalmbahn is built at Staudach, one of the gondolas built in the area since 1977. The same year the village is officially named Bad Kleinkirchheim.6
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1978
The first FIS Alpine World Cup downhills are held in Bad Kleinkirchheim on 11 and 12 March; Annemarie Moser-Pröll wins the first.6
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1979
The Römerbad, a second thermal bath, opens; it is rebuilt and expanded in 2007.6
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1987
Kaiserburgbahn I and II are built in 1986/87, climbing from 1,070 m to 1,363 m and on to 2,043 m.6
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2001
The Biosphärenparkbahn Brunnach opens in St. Oswald, from 1,333 m to 1,912 m.6
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2018
The most recent World Cup downhills in the area are held in January 2018, for women; the previous two events, for men, were in December 2007.6
Nearby and comparable
- Nassfeld
The largest ski area in Carinthia, marketed at 110 km against 103 km here, close to the Italian border and mostly red as well.
- Katschberg
Listed by bergfex as a popular ski area near Bad Kleinkirchheim; no guide here yet, and our graph for Bad Kleinkirchheim does not include it.
- Gerlitzen
Bergfex lists it among the ski areas near Bad Kleinkirchheim; no guide here yet.
- Turracher Höhe
Bergfex lists it among the ski areas near Bad Kleinkirchheim; no guide here yet.
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Questions
How big is the Bad Kleinkirchheim ski area, and is it one area?
The operator markets 103 km of piste, 35 pistes and 24 lifts, with 11 km easy, 84 km intermediate and 8 km difficult. Our measurement of the OpenStreetMap network finds one connected sector of 67.4 km, so the western sector at Bad Kleinkirchheim and the eastern sector at St. Oswald are linked and nothing marketed is detached. The 103 km is the figure used for comparison; the lower one is ours.124
Is Bad Kleinkirchheim good for beginners?
Only partly. The area has four practice slopes, a ski kindergarten from age 3 and a day ticket for the valley practice lifts, but just 11 of the 103 marketed km are easy, and our measurement finds only 24% of the network reachable without descending something harder than an easy piste. Beginners who progress find mostly red pistes.11524
How much is a day ticket in Bad Kleinkirchheim?
For winter 2026/27 an adult day ticket from 09:00 to 16:00 costs EUR 73, a youth (born 2008 to 2011) EUR 55 and a child (born 2012 to 2020) EUR 36.50. Seniors born 1961 or earlier pay EUR 66, and tickets are valid from 4 December 2026 to 29 March 2027, according to the operator.7
When does the Bad Kleinkirchheim ski season start and end?
The operator plans to open on 4 December 2026 and to run to 29 March 2027, with lifts opening in stages. The St. Oswald side opens first, on 4 December, the Nockalm and ridge lifts follow on 11 December, and the Kaiserburg, Maibrunn and Sonnwiesen lifts in the village open on 18 December. All dates depend on snow and weather.715
How do you get from Bad Kleinkirchheim village to St. Oswald?
On skis the route runs through the two slow Sonnwiesen chairs, and a February 2023 SkiForum.pl visitor needed 1.5 to 2 hours for it. The free Ski-Thermen-Bus Line A links the five valley stations and the Thermal Römerbad daily from 08:30 to 17:00, every 15 minutes in peak season and every 30 minutes otherwise (2025/26 timetable), and is the faster option.519
How high is Bad Kleinkirchheim and is the snow reliable?
The top is 2,055 m, the lowest lift station is about 1,070 m and the median piste is at 1,681 m, with no piste above 2,500 m. The operator says 97% of the pistes can be snowmade, with about 800 snow guns, and forum reports describe March as a year-to-year gamble for natural snow and valley coverage.3641213
How do you get to Bad Kleinkirchheim by car or train?
By car it is about 2:45 h from Salzburg, 3:45 h from Munich and 4:15 h from Vienna, and lift guests can park free at seven lots. Without a car, the nearest mainline stations are Spittal-Millstättersee, Villach Hauptbahnhof and Feldkirchen in Kärnten, each 30 to 35 km away, with the Nockmobil on-demand service, regional buses or a shuttle for the last stretch.2520
Is there a multi-area ski pass that includes Bad Kleinkirchheim?
Yes. Bad Kleinkirchheim is a member of the Kärntner Skipass, a multi-day pass for 31 ski resorts in Carinthia and East Tyrol. The operator's own multi-day passes are valid only in the Bad Kleinkirchheim ski area, and for 2026/27 an adult three-day pass costs EUR 213 in peak season and EUR 198 off-peak.726
References
Every claim on this page carries a numbered marker linking here, and every reference links back to the passages that used it. Numbers not yet checked against a source are marked like this.
- 1. ^ a b c d e f g h Skigebiet Bad Kleinkirchheim: Skifahren in Bad Kleinkirchheim
- 2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Skiing in one of the most important skiing areas in Carinthia
- 3. ^ a b c d e f Skigebiet Bad Kleinkirchheim / St. Oswald
- 4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m SkiAllDay routing graph, computed from OpenStreetMap
- 5. ^ a b c d e Bad Kleinkirchheim
- 6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bad Kleinkirchheim
- 7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Preise & Öffnungszeiten, Winter 2026/27
- 8. ^ a b c d e f g Bad Kleinkirchheim - St. Oswald 2025/26
- 9. ^ a b c Bad Kleinkirchheim 28.12.2016-05.01.2017
- 10. ^ a b c Pistenplan Bad Kleinkirchheim (Panoramakarte and lift list)
- 11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Bad Kleinkirchheim
- 12. ^ a b Skigebiet Bad Kleinkirchheim
- 13. ^ a b c d Bad Kleinkircheim in March
- 14. ^ a b c d Bad Kleinkirchheim 2025/26
- 15. ^ a b c Pisten & Anlagen
- 16. ^ Partner-Info Winter-Saison 2025/26 (October 2025)
- 17. ^ a b c d Bad Kleinkirchheim 2025/26
- 18. ^ a b c d Bad Kleinkirchheim 2024/25
- 19. ^ a b Ski-Thermen-Bus im Skigebiet Bad Kleinkirchheim
- 20. ^ a b Parking & e-charging
- 21. ^ Ski-Thermen-Bus im Skigebiet Bad Kleinkirchheim
- 22. ^ Neues in Bad Kleinkirchheim & Heidialm Skipark – Falkert
- 23. ^ Bad Kleinkirchheim, 12. 3. 2011: besser als erwartet!
- 24. ^ Bad Kleinkirchheim, Saison 2009/2010: Mikis Sammeltopic
- 25. ^ Anreise zu den Bad Kleinkirchheimer Bergbahnen
- 26. ^ Kärntner Skipass: 31 ski resorts in Carinthia and East Tyrol
Page last updated 18 October 2026.