Cable car · Innsbruck, Austria
Hafelekarbahn
Hafelekarbahn is a cable car near Innsbruck, Austria. It climbs 359 m over 664 m, from 1,907 m to 2,266 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 83 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
78/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Hafelekarbahn is scarier than 78% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 59 of 408 in Austria.
- Highest above the ground: about 83 m, as high as a 28-storey building, 181 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 664 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 28°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 362 m of the 664 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Hafelekarbahn is near Innsbruck, Austria, at 1,907 m above sea level (47.30655° N, 11.37979° E). From there it runs 664 m up to the top station at 2,266 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Operator
- Innsbrucker Nordkettenbahnen Betriebs GmbH
- Capacity
- 625 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 69 people
- Ride time
- about 2 min
Nearby lines
- Seegrubenbahn cable car · 1.5 km away · rises 1,041 m
- Muttereralmbahn gondola · 10.6 km away · rises 649 m
- Nockspitzbahn gondola · 11.0 km away · rises 903 m
- Patscherkofelbahn gondola · 11.5 km away · rises 953 m
- Seefelder Jochbahn cable car · 11.7 km away · rises 302 m
- Härmelekopfbahn cable car · 12.0 km away · rises 278 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.