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Where to stay in Grainau

A village at 846 m in the Zugspitze – Garmisch-Classic ski area, Germany.

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About Grainau

Ski area
Zugspitze – Garmisch-Classic (2 villages)
Country
Germany
Altitude
846 m
Pistes
We don't have a figure for this ski area yet
Piste difficulty
27% blue, 57% red and 16% black of the mapped pistes
Lifts
26 lifts: 10 gondolas and cable cars, 5 chairlifts, 9 drag lifts and 2 magic carpets
Piste map
Official piste map (zugspitze.de), external site, opens in a new tab
Webcams
Official webcams (zugspitze.de), external site, opens in a new tab
Snow in the village
Around 12 Dec 2026: 5 cm (median of 29 winters)Through the winter: Mid-Dec 7 cm · Christmas 6 cm · Mid-Jan 14 cm · Mid-Feb 17 cm · Mid-Mar none
Snow on the slopes
No mountain station near enough with a long enough record

Location and altitude: © BKG, external site, opens in a new tab (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, external site, opens in a new tab: place names and calculated altitude (Geographical Names 1:250 000, data sources, external site, opens in a new tab).

Piste difficulty and lifts: as mapped on OpenSkiMap, external site, opens in a new tab, © OpenStreetMap contributors, external site, opens in a new tab, downloaded 9 Oct 2026. Volunteer-mapped and counted by us, so they can differ from the ski area’s own figures; railways and funiculars aren’t counted as lifts.

Snow in the village: measured at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen weather station (719 m, 3.6 km away).

Typical depth is the median over the winters 1994/95 to 2023/24 with readings that week, shown only with at least 24 of them. Natural snow on open ground, not groomed pistes; past winters, not a forecast or snow report. Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), external site, opens in a new tab daily precipitation-station data, CC BY 4.0, external site, opens in a new tab, counted by us.

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Listed accommodation in Grainau (1)

Real businesses from official directories, credited below. We don’t have their availability or prices, so they aren’t part of the score. Contact them directly to book.

1 rental. How many are listed depends on what each directory covers, which varies a lot between villages, so a low count doesn’t mean little accommodation.

Officially classified capacity: 8 guests across 1 establishment. Capacity is for whole establishments, not a single booking.

Source: BayernCloud Tourismus (CC BY-SA, CC BY or CC0), copied on 9 Nov 2026.

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Records updated 20 Jul 2026.

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