Cable car · Davos, Switzerland
Gipfelbahn, Davos
Gipfelbahn is a cable car near Davos, Switzerland. It climbs 149 m over 676 m, from 2,662 m to 2,812 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 118 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
80/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Gipfelbahn is scarier than 80% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 169 of 402 in Switzerland.
- Highest above the ground: about 118 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 298 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 676 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 12°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 427 m of the 676 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Gipfelbahn is near Davos, Switzerland, at 2,662 m above sea level (46.83342° N, 9.80501° E). From there it runs 676 m up to the top station at 2,812 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,100 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 60 people
- Ride time
- about 2 min
Nearby lines
- Parsennhüttenbahn cable car · 1.5 km away · rises 466 m
- Schiferbahn 2 gondola · 1.8 km away · rises 653 m
- Schatzalp-Bahn funicular · 4.1 km away · rises 288 m
- Schiferbahn 1 gondola · 4.4 km away · rises 446 m
- Gotschnaboden - Gotschnagrat cable car · 5.0 km away · rises 504 m
- Jakobshornbahn Sektion 1 cable car · 5.4 km away · rises 396 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo, 2 m. Data as of 2026-10-31.