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Innsbruck Ski Holidays

At a glance

  • Historic city
  • 9 ski areas
  • Excellent transport links

Great for

  • Non skiers
  • Ski safaris
  • Groups

Ski Holidays in Innsbruck

It’s not a matter of either/or when it comes to choosing between a city and ski break in Innsbruck. Here, you’ve got nine ski resorts within a bus ride of one of the greatest cities in the Alps. It’s the best of both worlds, and it’s brilliant.

  • Flight Time
  • 2 hours
  • From London
  • Nearest Airports
  • Innsbruck, Salzburg
  • Time zone
  • GMT + 1 hour
  • Language
  • German
  • Currency
  • Euros
  • Ski Season
  • Dec - April

Innsbruck Stats

Top Altitude
3210m
Bottom Altitude
820m
Resort Altitude
574m (Innsbruck city)
Total Piste
298km
Longest Run
15km
Slope Orientation
N, S, E, W
Vertical Drop
Skiable Vertical
Night Skiing
Yes
Glacier Skiing
Yes

City life, old traditions and a huge love of sport come together in Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol which is surrounded by the Nordkette mountains.

Head into the heart of the city and you’re met by the historic centre – with its grand baroque buildings along Maria-Theresien-Straße, painted pastel pinks and oranges with beautiful frescoes. Famous parts of the city include the gothic Golden Roof and the Hofburg Imperial palace built by Emperor Maximilian I in 1500. Elsewhere, you’ll find more innovative builds, with striking structures like the Bergisel ski jump and the BTV-Stadtforum. Together they create a wonderful mix of old and new that works, rather than feeling disjointed: tour a Renaissance Castle or Christmas market in the morning, then clip into your skis for a high-speed lift ride up a glacier in the afternoon - Tyrol’s your oyster.

A short ride on the ‘Scibus’ from the centre lands you in the midst of the mountains, where nine ski resorts provide more than enough skiing for a week. Find your favourite and stick to that, or visit a different one each day – even skiing more than one each day is doable. The Olympia Skiworld Innsbruck area is so named because the ‘64 and ‘76 Winter Games took place around here – it covers the resorts of Axamer Lizum, Kühtai, Igls and Patscherkofel, Muttereralm, Nordkette, Rangger Köpfl, Fulpmes-Schlick 2000, Glungezer and the snow sure Stubai Glacier.

Winter Sports Ratings

Beginners

Intermediate

Advanced

Snowboarding

Innsbruck Transfer Times

Innsbruck Airport 15 mins

The nearest airport to Innsbruck is Innsbruck at 5 km or about 20 minutes by car

What's the ski area like in Innsbruck?

There a number of ski areas within easy reach of Innsbruck, The Nordkette ski area is the smallest, with 15km of slopes, mostly reds, served by five lifts. Muttereralm pips it to the post size-wise, with an extra kilometre of terrain.

There are 17km of slopes in Rangger Köpfl. The Patscherkofel totals 18km of terrain.

Next up, Fulpmes and Schlick 2000 have a decent amount of skiing for all levels. Glungezer’s seven lifts serve 23km of pistes.

Kuhtai and Axamar Lizum are considerably bigger, each with around 40km of terrain. Kuhtai’s slopes reach up to 2520m, making it a good choice if you’re skiing here towards the end of the season.

But the biggest and snowiest of them all is the Stubai Glacier area. Pistes flow down from as high as 3210m, and the snow usually remains from October until June.

Which other ski resorts are near to Innsbruck?

The nearest ski resorts to Innsbruck include Kuhtai, Axamer Lizum, Neustift, Fulpmes, Stubai Glacier.

Ski Area Facts

LocationTyrol, Austria
Established
Downhill298km
Lift Pass€222 (adult 6 day for Olympia Skiworld Innsbruck)

Beginner Slopes

103km35%

Intermediate Skiing

147km49%

Advance & Expert Terrain

48km16%

Snowboarding Trails

298km100%

What is Innsbruck like for Beginner skiers?

The best option for beginners would be the 21km of terrain at the Stubai Glacier. Muttereralm and Rangger Köpfl are also good options with higher percentage of gentle slopes and blue runs. Rangger Köpfl has 8km of blue slopes.

What is Innsbruck like for Intermediate skiers?

For intermediates the better options are Nordkette, Patscherkofel and Glungezers. The Stubai has a good amount of piste aournd 60km, with the most of it accessible to intermediates.

What is Innsbruck like for Advanced skiers?

Rangger Köpfl has 2km of expert terrain, Fulpmes and Schlick 2000 have some black runs. Kuhtai and Axamar Lizum include a good amount of groomed pistes for experts. But the best is the Stubai Glacier which has a whopping 20km of ski routes for experts.

What is Innsbruck like for snowboarding?

Kuhtai has an amazing snowpark.

What is Innsbruck like for off-piste skiing?

Fulpmes and Schlick 2000 has a number of unpisted ski routes. Kuhtai and Axamar Lizum including a good amount of ungroomed slopes for experts.

Innsbruck Restaurants

Oniriq, is the place to go if you are looking for a true fine dining experience in Innsbruck. There aren't many tables, so be sure to book in advance. Traditional Tirolean food, a beautiful location in the centre of the medieval oldtown, attentive service – Das Weiße Rössl is one of our favourite places to take friends for an authentic local dining experience. Das Gasthaus Anich takes its name from the Anichstraße road on which it is located. The food is traditional and hearty – and the portions are very generous.

Innsbruck Après Ski

Mountain bars and restaurants can be found around all of the individual ski resorts – though none of them are known for being big party towns, there are still some good options like Kuhtai’s Graf Ferdinandhaus, Leo’s Stadlbar in Fulpmes and the Schirmbar in Axamer Lizum. Back in Innsbruck there are bars of all shapes and sizes, from Tribaun with its craft beers to 360o in the Old Town for fine wines. Later on, Gossers has a cracking menu of beers and cocktails, and Couch Club stays open until 4am for dancing to live music and DJ’s. M+M is a favourite for cocktails.

Innsbruck Activites for Non-skiers

Innsbruck's heritage of Olympic winter sports installations means that there is an ongoing program of competitive events such as ski jumping, bobsledding, figure skating, and ice hockey. All these facilities are also open to the public, the guest bob-sled ride (appointments on request) being a particular attraction. In addition, virtually every ski resort in Tirol (there are over a hundred with at least a 600m / 2000 ft vertical ) can be accessed within one hour from Innsbruck for ski sampling. Even hardcore skiers can rarely resist Innsbruck's cultural and historic attractions. Innsbruck is the perfect jumping-off point for day explorations, and scheduled sightseeing buses run to St Moritz, Salzburg, Munich, the Bavarian Castles, and even to Venice. As may be expected in a European city, Innsbruck has a continual performance program of opera, symphony, exhibitions and festivals. The Christmas Holiday season is particularly inviting with Advent concerts, a giant Christmas Tree surmounting a Christkindl Market, and an active outdoor New Year Eve celebration with drink stands, entertainment, fireworks and laser displays.There’s no end to the activities on offer here, from shopping and sightseeing to Olympic sports like bobsleighing, ski jumping and ice skating. Indoor activities range from bowling to billiards, not forgetting the swimming pools at Axams Leisure centre and Amraser Straße

Clothing Food & Souvenir Shops

As a major city, Innsbruck has every type of shop imaginable, mainly along the Maria-Theresia-Straáe. Kaufhaus Tirol is a good general department store with everything from groceries to clothing. Visitors seeking authentic handwork can visit Tiroler Heimatwerk in Meranerstraáe. A daily market in the Markthalle brings farmers with their homemade honey and schnaps and, on Saturdays, an array of outdoor flea market stalls.

A new shopping complex was added on Maria Theresienstrasse in 2002.

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Best Time to Visit Innsbruck

The brilliant thing about skiing from Innsbruck is that you can pick where you ski depending on the time of year and current snow conditions. If you visit in the middle of the season, you’ll usually have all nine resorts to choose between thanks to a good build-up of natural snow and artificial stuff created by dozens of snow cannons. Later in the season, the highest resort is the Stubai Glacier, where slopes go over 3000m and stay skiable into the summer months. Kuhtai usually stays in good nick, with the highest slopes at 2520m and there’s also Axamer Lizum’s ski area from 2340m and Glungezer which peaks at 2304m.

What's Innsbruck like at Christmas?

We love Christmas in Innsbruck – Krampus takes over the streets in the build-up, with awesome markets in the city and the “Christmas in the Mountains” event in Igls.

What's Innsbruck like in the New Year?

There’s oodles going on over New Year in Innsbruck. Look out for the early firework celebrations for children before the big event around 9pm in the city centre. Midnight mass takes place in the local churches and the Postkutscherhof in Axams usually hosts a big party.

What's Innsbruck like in Half-Term?

The nine surrounding ski areas tend to be in peak condition when you spend Half Term in Innsbruck – head to the smaller ones for nigh on empty pistes, or spend the week skiing some of Europe’s best snow up on the glacier.

What's Innsbruck like at Easter?

It’s not only beautiful views that can be enjoyed at Easter in Innsbruck. The city usually hosts an Easter Market, with palm processions and Sunday Mass. Most of the ski resorts put on Easter egg hunts too.

Innsbruck Snow Conditions

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Ski Accommodation in Innsbruck

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All nine ski resorts in the Olympia Skiworld area have excellent offerings for families – choose between tiny ski areas like Nordkette and Muttereralm where you can really rule the roost, or bigger options like Kuhtai and Stubai for a wider range of terrain.

Whether you’re splitting up between the surrounding ski areas and the city, or heading off to explore the slopes and attractions together – there’s so much to do around Innsbruck that it works for all kinds of group holidays.

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Ski Extras

How much is a ski pass in Innsbruck

Maximum and minimum adult Innsbruck lift pass prices ranged from €? to €? for 6 days access to the Innsbruck ski lift system at the start of the 2025 winter season. Our lift passes are part of a packaged Innsbruck holiday with accommodation, so prices vary depending on chalet or hotel suppliers. Confirm price for the lift ticket before booking your holiday.

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Age Range 7 - 15 20 - 59 60+
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Getting to Innsbruck

Most of our ski holidays to Innsbruck packaged with flights include airport transfers. We can also arrange private transfers to Innsbruck from nearby airports

How long does it take to fly to Innsbruck from the UK?

Flights from London take about 2 hours to Innsbruck, Salzburg. This table shows approximate transfer times to Innsbruck from the nearest airports, smaller airports can be more prone to delays.

Airport Distance Transfer Time
Innsbruck 5 km 20 minutes
Munich 160 km 2 hours
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How long does it take to drive to Innsbruck from the UK?

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How long is the transfer from nearest Austria train station to Innsbruck?

The transfer time from alpine train stations are generally shorter than from airports, Call us for details of Innsbruck transfers.

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Going to Innsbruck under your own steam

For independant travel to Austria, compare accommodation only with Innsbruck self-drive packages which include Eurotunnel or ferry.

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