Jungfrau Ski Pass: What It Covers and Where to Buy

The Jungfrau ski pass costs CHF 79 for an adult day in low season and covers all three ski areas above Interlaken, 211 km of pistes, plus the train from Interlaken Ost. That last part is the one visitors miss, and I watch them buy a second ticket at the machine. I ski Grindelwald every Tuesday with this pass, and I read every price and condition on jungfrau.ch on 29 October 2026 before writing this.

Here is what the pass includes, what it costs for one day or six, where you collect it, when the half-day starts, why the Jungfrau Travel Pass is the wrong card for a skier, and which of the three areas to use it on first.

What does the Jungfrau ski pass include?

One pass, three ski areas: Grindelwald-Wengen with Männlichen and Kleine Scheidegg, Grindelwald-First, and Mürren-Schilthorn, 211 km of pistes in total, plus the Bernese Oberland Railway from Interlaken Ost. It also includes the First Flyer and First Glider zip lines at Grindelwald-First, which the Jungfrau Railways FAQ lists as part of the pass, and the Lauberhorn race course once the race weekend is over.

The Jungfrau Railways sell a single product, the "Skipass Jungfrau", and there is no cheaper Grindelwald-only or Wengen-only version on sale online. The three areas are not linked on snow: you ride a train or cable car between Grindelwald-Wengen and First, and the Mürren side sits across the Lauterbrunnen valley. The pass is valid for skiers and snowboarders alike.

One line in the 2026/27 price sheet matters if you plan a Mürren day: the half-day, one-day and two-day passes are valid on the Mürren-Schilthorn section for the ascent only, with a surcharge payable at the Schilthornbahn ticket office. Asked what that means on the snow, Pierre picked "you ski all the way down, nothing to pay": the surcharge is for riding the cable car down instead of skiing, as I read the sheet.

Fun fact: the region counts 50 km of sled runs and 100 km of winter hiking trails next to the 211 km of pistes, according to the Jungfrau Ski Region page read on 29 October 2026. A ski pass does not cover the sled runs: those have their own pass from CHF 61, and my guide to sledding in Interlaken covers them run by run.

How much does the Jungfrau ski pass cost this winter?

CHF 79 for an adult day pass in low season, CHF 83 in peak season and at weekends, CHF 62 for a half-day from 12:00, CHF 156 for two days, CHF 232 for three and CHF 404 for six, prices read on jungfrau.ch on 29 October 2026. Youth aged 16 to 19 pay CHF 45 a day and children aged 6 to 15 pay CHF 38, at the same rate all season.

In words, because the table is an image: the half-day pass costs CHF 62, or CHF 65 in peak season; the day pass CHF 79, or CHF 83; two days CHF 156, or CHF 164; three days CHF 232, or CHF 244; four days CHF 299; five days CHF 354; six days CHF 404, or CHF 424; seven days CHF 450; and fourteen days CHF 670. The peak season runs from 19 December 2026 to 3 January 2027 and from 30 January to 28 February 2027, and in low season the peak rate applies to day and half-day passes on Saturdays and Sundays. Peak rates apply to adults only.

Two season products exist. The winter season pass with photo costs CHF 1,249 for an adult, according to the Männlichen railway's 2026/27 price sheet. The AlpsPass costs CHF 949 in presale, CHF 299 for youth and CHF 199 for children, and covers the Jungfrau Ski Region, Adelboden-Lenk, the Aletsch Arena and Engelberg-Titlis, with three free days in each of seven partner destinations. The jungfrau.ch page gives the presale until 15 December 2026, the Männlichen price sheet until 15 November: if you want it, buy before the earlier date.

Insider tip: a Friday in January costs CHF 79, the Saturday after it CHF 83. If you only have one day and can choose, take the weekday: four francs cheaper and emptier pistes, which is why I ski on Tuesdays, and the full day rather than the half-day from 12:00.

Does the Jungfrau ski pass include the train from Interlaken?

Yes. The Jungfrau Railways FAQ, read on 29 October 2026, states that the ski pass includes travel by train from Interlaken Ost on the Bernese Oberland Railway, to Grindelwald Terminal, Grindelwald or Lauterbrunnen, and onwards on the mountain railways to Wengen and Mürren. You show the same card on the train and at the turnstile.

The times, from the Swiss timetable for Thursday 21 January 2027, queried on 28 October 2026: Interlaken Ost to Grindelwald Terminal in 29 minutes without a change, to Grindelwald in 36, to Lauterbrunnen in 22, to Wengen in 37, and to Mürren in 50 minutes with three changes. From Interlaken, a Grindelwald-Wengen day starts at the Terminal and the Männlichen gondola or the Eiger Express; a Mürren day starts at Lauterbrunnen.

If you hold a Swiss travelcard, the rules are on the same FAQ page. The Half-Fare Travelcard and the Swiss Half Fare Card are valid on the whole Jungfrau Railways network. A GA Travelcard gives free travel from Interlaken Ost to Grindelwald, Wengen and Mürren and a discount above. A Swiss Travel Pass Flex needs a validated travel day to give free travel to the three villages and discounts on the mountain railways. The FAQ does not list a discount on the ski pass itself for any of these cards.

Pierre Vetsch, state-certified ski instructor, on the mistake he sees most at the station: "Renting skis in Interlaken instead of doing it directly at Grindelwald Terminal, especially if they only have one day."

The same logic applies to the pass: nothing needs to be bought in Interlaken before the train. Drivers can leave the car at the new Park+Ride at Matten bei Interlaken, which the Jungfrau Railways recommend for day visitors, and ride the same train with the pass. My guide to skiing near Interlaken compares the five ski areas you can reach from town, including the two outside this pass.

Where do you buy the Jungfrau ski pass, and when?

Online on jungfrau.ch, loaded onto a physical SwissPass card or onto a KeyCard you collect from a pick-up machine or a sales point, or at any station counter on the morning itself. Buy it online the evening before: you can still cancel free of charge until 23:59, and you skip the counter at Grindelwald Terminal.

The FAQ lists the pick-up points for an online purchase: the Top of Europe Flagship Store in Interlaken, the stations at Interlaken Ost, Zweilütschinen, Lauterbrunnen, Wilderswil, Wengen, Grindelwald, Grindelwald Grund and Kleine Scheidegg, Grindelwald Terminal, the Firstbahn valley station and the Matten stop. If you load the pass onto a SwissPass, the physical card has to be in your pocket: the Jungfrau Railways say twice on that page that the phone version is not enough to ski.

Pierre says, asked what he skis with this season: "I have the season pass at CHF 570 because I live here, with a yellow card that proves it, so I pay that price, and it gives me every day, pretty much everywhere, the three areas between First, Grindelwald and Mürren, and all the trains and buses to get there too."

That resident price is not on the public price list of jungfrau.ch, read on 29 October 2026; a visitor pays CHF 1,249 for the season pass with photo. The rest of the card is the same for everyone: three areas, trains included.

The refund rule is the one to know before you click. Webshop passes can be cancelled free until 23:59 on the day before the first day of validity, by you, in the online customer centre. Once the pass is valid, there is no refund, not for weather, not for a closed lift, not for an injury, unless you took the cancellation insurance offered at checkout. A pass bought at a counter can be refunded before its validity starts, with a CHF 10 processing fee.

On the skiing forums people ask whether to buy in advance or wait and see the conditions. The rule above answers it: buy the evening before, once you have seen the forecast, and cancel before midnight if the forecast changes. The half-day pass is the exception: it is sold at the stations only, from 12:00, not online.

Jungfrau Ski Pass vs Jungfrau Travel Pass: which one in winter?

The ski pass if you ski, the Winter Hiking and Sledging Pass if you don't, and the Jungfrau Travel Pass for neither in winter. The Travel Pass costs CHF 210 for three days and, in the words of the Jungfrau Railways FAQ, "does not include the winter sports infrastructure". It opens the trains, cable cars and boats, not the lifts.

The Jungfrau Travel Pass is the summer card of the region: three to eight days of unlimited travel on the railways, cable cars and boats between Interlaken, Grindelwald, Wengen, Mürren and the Schynige Platte, from CHF 210 for three days to CHF 330 for eight, CHF 30 for a child, with a connecting ticket to Jungfraujoch at CHF 63 in winter and CHF 89 in summer. On a Reddit thread about the Jungfrau ski region, a first-time visitor wrote that they held a Top of Europe winter pass and did not understand what the ski pass added. The answer is everything on skis.

A non-skier who comes with skiers has a better card: the Winter Hiking and Sledging Pass, from CHF 61 for one day, valid from 21 November 2026 to 25 April 2027 on the lifts to the winter trails and sled runs. It is what I recommend to the partner who stays off the skis, and my guide to what to do in Mürren without skiing is built around it.

My verdict: the Travel Pass is a summer product sold all year. In winter, buy the ski pass or the sledging pass, never both for the same person, and never the Travel Pass for someone who plans to ski.

Is Jungfraujoch included in the Jungfrau ski pass?

No. Jungfraujoch is not part of any ski pass, and no piste runs from it. With a Jungfrau ski pass valid three days or more, the season pass or the AlpsPass, you can add the Jungfraujoch "Top Ticket" for CHF 63, valid from 1 December 2026 to 30 April 2027, against a return ticket from CHF 129.60 at full price.

The Top Ticket is a connecting ticket: it works only during the validity of the pass it is attached to, and the Ice Palace up there is not accessible in ski boots, which the Jungfrau Railways write on the ticket page. On a one-day or two-day pass you pay the normal fare. The pistes end at Eigergletscher, 2,320 m, the top station of the Eiger Express; the station at 3,454 m is a train ride above the skiing, not part of it. I explain what you can and cannot do up there on skis in can you ski at Jungfraujoch.

Pierre says, asked which sector is overrated for a skier: "Jungfraujoch." You do not ski there, and it is expensive.

I have still recommended the Top Ticket to guests who wanted the summit in their trip: at CHF 63 on a three-day pass it is the cheapest way up there in winter, and I tell them to take a sunny day for it.

Grindelwald-Wengen, First or Mürren: where should you use the pass first?

Grindelwald-Wengen on your first day, Mürren-Schilthorn when the weather turns or the snow is poor, Grindelwald-First when you want sun and the zip lines more than the best snow. That is how I spread the pass across a winter, and the three areas are not interchangeable.

Pierre says, on the first day of an average skier from Interlaken: "Männlichen-Kleine Scheidegg, the best served, the biggest and the most practical."

The Männlichen-Kleine Scheidegg side runs between Grindelwald and Wengen, with the Eiger Express and the Männlichen gondola from the Terminal. Mürren-Schilthorn stretches from 1,600 m to almost 3,000 m, which the Schilthorn cableway credits for its snow and for winter operations in the Birg-Schilthorn section until the end of April. When Grindelwald has poor snow or no sun, I go up to Mürren. First is the sunny side: the ski instructor I met in Interlaken told me he loves First because it is always in the sun, with worse snow in return.

Pierre says, on the run he keeps for the end of a Grindelwald day: "Ski back down to Grindelwald Terminal through the forest, golden hour or the start of sunset, the moon out, incredible."

A patroller at Kleine Scheidegg once told me the one thing to check before that last run: the time of the last lift, so that you are not stuck on the wrong side of the pass. My rule is the last ride of the Wixi chairlift, because from the Wixi you ski all the way down to Grindelwald Terminal; the 2026/27 lift times were not published on 29 October 2026, so read them on the board at the Terminal in the morning. On waiting, my count is simple: almost no queue at any lift, and least of all in Mürren.

Before choosing the sector, I ask the lift staff and the patrollers where the snow is best, how the wind was, what fell and what the weather does, and the same questions before any off-piste. They know it hours before the webcams show it.

Pierre says, on the number one mistake visitors make with the pass: "the full pass for one day in Mürren", with the Schilthorn surcharge on top at the counter.

Asked for the moment he keeps from a morning with the pass, Pierre answered in two words: first tracks.

That is the whole argument for the first cabin and the full day rather than the half-day pass from 12:00.

The season, from the Jungfrau Railways' 2026/27 price list read on 29 October 2026: Kleine Scheidegg opens on 21 November 2026 and closes on 25 April 2027, Männlichen runs from 12 December to 4 April, Grindelwald-First from 19 December to 29 March, and Mürren-Schilthorn opens on three November weekends, then daily from 21 November, with the upper section until 2 May 2027. All of it depends on snow. My month is March, for the weather, the snow, the sun and the longer days. For the choice between the two villages for a non-skier, read Mürren or Grindelwald in winter; for a first-timer, the valley at Grindelwald needs no pass at all, as I explain in skiing in Interlaken for beginners.

Your Questions About the Jungfrau Ski Pass

Is there a half-day Jungfrau ski pass?

Yes, for the afternoon only. The half-day pass is valid from 12:00 and costs CHF 62 for an adult in low season, CHF 65 in peak season and at weekends, CHF 36 for youth and CHF 30 for a child, prices read on 29 October 2026. It is sold at every train and cable car station in the region and not online, which is the one case where you queue at a counter. There is no morning half-day. If you arrive from Interlaken at 11:30 and want the afternoon, buy it at Grindelwald Terminal or Lauterbrunnen; if you arrive at 09:30, the day pass pays off after four hours of skiing.

Do children ski free with the Jungfrau ski pass?

On Saturdays, yes. Up to three children aged 6 to 15 get a free day pass when an adult buys a day or afternoon pass at the list price, every Saturday of the winter season, online or at the stations. The offer does not apply to multi-day or season passes or to promotions. The Schilthorn cableway adds that the Intersport Rent shops in Mürren and Lauterbrunnen lend children's ski gear for free. On the other days a child pays CHF 38 for a day and CHF 75 for two, youth aged 16 to 19 pay CHF 45 and CHF 88. A family of two adults and three children skis a Saturday for CHF 166.

Is Grindelwald in the Magic Pass?

No. The Jungfrau Ski Region is not in the Magic Pass. The two Magic Pass areas near Interlaken are the Axalp above Brienz and Meiringen-Hasliberg, both listed on magicpass.ch on 29 October 2026 with a season from 19 December 2026 to 29 March 2027. The Jungfrau Railways' own multi-area card is the AlpsPass at CHF 949 in presale, with Adelboden-Lenk, the Aletsch Arena and Engelberg-Titlis. If you already hold a Magic Pass and sleep in Interlaken, Axalp is 59 minutes away by train and bus and Hasliberg about an hour; for a day under the Eiger you buy the Jungfrau day pass like everyone else.

Can you get a refund if the weather is bad?

Not once the pass is valid. The Jungfrau Railways grant no refund for interruptions of operations, accident or illness, and that includes fog, wind and closed lifts. What you can do: cancel a webshop pass free of charge until 23:59 the day before, or take the cancellation insurance offered when you order, which covers illness, serious injury and similar cases during the validity. A pass bought at a counter is refundable before it starts, minus CHF 10. My practice: I never buy a multi-day pass before seeing the forecast for the first morning, and I buy day by day when the weather is unsettled.

Do snowboarders need a different pass?

No. The same Skipass Jungfrau covers skiers and snowboarders on all three areas, and the Jungfrau Railways describe Grindelwald-First as the freestyle side of the region. The First Flyer and First Glider are included in the pass too, which matters for a group with a non-rider: they can ride the zip lines while the others ski. For a snowboard lesson, OUTDOOR in Interlaken sells a beginner package, and the Bodmi Arena in the valley at Grindelwald has its own ticket at CHF 28, so a first day on a board needs no Jungfrau pass either.

Ski it with someone who rides it every Tuesday

The doubt I hear most is not the price, it is the fear of buying the wrong card: the Travel Pass, the Top of Europe pass, a Magic Pass that stops at Hasliberg. The answer takes one line. Skipass Jungfrau, CHF 79 a day, train from Interlaken Ost included, bought online the evening before and cancelled free until midnight if the forecast turns.

On my Private Ski Day, from CHF 500 for your group of up to 8, I pick you up in Interlaken, choose the area for the snow and your level, and buy the right pass for your group online so that nobody queues at the Terminal. If you want the pass and the pistes sorted by someone who skis them every week, tell me your date for a private ski day and I will confirm the area once I see the snow.

How we made this: based on Pierre's interview of 29 October 2026, facts and prices checked at the official sources on 29 October 2026, written with AI assistance.

Source: Jungfrau Railways, ski pass prices and offers, Jungfrau Railways, frequently asked questions, Schilthorn cableway, skiing area, and ski days in Grindelwald and Mürren through the 2024, 2025 and 2026 winters.

*Written by Pierre Vetsch, founder and head guide at Swiss Local Adventures