Cable car · Grainau, Germany
Hochalmbahn, Grainau
Hochalmbahn is a cable car near Grainau, Germany. It climbs 331 m over 863 m, from 1,701 m to 2,032 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 67 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
70/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Hochalmbahn is scarier than 70% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 24 of 64 in Germany.
- Highest above the ground: about 67 m, as high as a 22-storey building, 388 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 613 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 24°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 209 m of the 863 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Hochalmbahn is near Grainau, Germany, at 1,701 m above sea level (47.44105° N, 11.06236° E). From there it runs 863 m up to the top station at 2,032 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 750 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 44 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- Alpspitzbahn cable car · 1.6 km away · rises 1,281 m
- Kreuzeckbahn gondola · 2.4 km away · rises 877 m
- Hausbergbahn gondola · 4.7 km away · rises 606 m
- Seilbahn Zugspitze cable car · 5.1 km away · rises 1,934 m
- Graseckbahn cable car · 5.7 km away · rises 102 m
- Zugspitz-Gletscherbahn cable car · 6.0 km away · rises 345 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.