Cable car · Grainau, Germany
Zugspitz-Gletscherbahn
Zugspitz-Gletscherbahn is a cable car near Grainau, Germany. It climbs 345 m over 917 m, from 2,586 m to 2,931 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 161 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
90/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Zugspitz-Gletscherbahn is scarier than 90% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 13 of 64 in Germany.
- Highest above the ground: about 161 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 421 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 917 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 19°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 692 m of the 917 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Zugspitz-Gletscherbahn is near Grainau, Germany, at 2,586 m above sea level (47.41365° N, 10.98003° E). From there it runs 917 m up to the top station at 2,931 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1992
Nearby lines
- Tiroler Zugspitzbahn cable car · 1.6 km away · rises 1,701 m
- Seilbahn Zugspitze cable car · 2.4 km away · rises 1,934 m
- Ehrwalder Almbahn gondola · 4.2 km away · rises 389 m
- Hochalmbahn, Grainau cable car · 6.0 km away · rises 331 m
- Alpspitzbahn cable car · 6.8 km away · rises 1,281 m
- Kreuzeckbahn gondola · 7.8 km away · rises 877 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.