Cable car · Silvaplana, Switzerland
Sils-Furtschellas
Sils-Furtschellas is a cable car near Silvaplana, Switzerland. It climbs 512 m over 1.40 km, from 1,799 m to 2,311 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 73 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
74/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Sils-Furtschellas is scarier than 74% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 208 of 402 in Switzerland.
- Highest above the ground: about 73 m, as high as a 24-storey building, 870 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 652 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 23°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 676 m of the 1.40 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Sils-Furtschellas is near Silvaplana, Switzerland, at 1,799 m above sea level (46.43254° N, 9.77288° E). From there it runs 1.40 km up to the top station at 2,311 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Per cabin
- 80 people
Nearby lines
- Murtèl-Corvatsch cable car · 3.4 km away · rises 596 m
- Surlej-Murtèl cable car · 3.6 km away · rises 831 m
- Signalbahn cable car · 7.8 km away · rises 352 m
- Corviglia-Piz Nair cable car · 9.0 km away · rises 532 m
- Celerina - Marguns gondola · 10.8 km away · rises 525 m
- Pranzaira-Albigna cable car · 13.5 km away · rises 899 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.