Sunnegga-Rothorn - How to get there

Getting to Zermatt and the Sunnegga valley station

Zermatt is car-free and can best be reached by train from Visp/Brig. Find more details here.

Once you’re in Zermatt, it’s a 10-minute walk across the town to the valley station, which is located within the mountains and accessible by a deep tunnel. There you’ll board the funicular to Sunnegga.

From Zermatt to Sunnegga, Blauherd and Rothorn

Several types of mountain transportation take you up:

• From Zermatt to Sunnegga, you’ll make a 4-minute ride in a funicular inside the mountain.
• From Sunnegga to Blauherd, gondolas are operational in summer and chairlift is operational in winter.
• From Blauherd to Rothorn, you’ll be transported in a large cable car.

In total, the ride from the valley station to Rothorn takes about 20 minutes.

Dates of operation

All three lifts are operational from 3 December 2022 to 23 April 2023. There's a maintenance break from 24 April to late May 2023. 

The summer timetable for 2023 isn't published yet. It will likely be similar to the 2022 timetable, which was as follows:

• Sunnegga was accessible from 26 May to 31 October 2022;
• Blauherd was accessible from 26 May to 9 October 2022;
• Rothorn was accessible from 2 July to 9 October 2022.