Kitzbühel is an Alpine ski resort in Austria. Kitzbühel spans from 762 m to 1996 m above sea level. The published figures cover 233 km of piste and 57 lifts.
Kitzbühel/Kirchberg is traditionally one of the earliest Austrian resorts to open (early-mid November on upper glacier-adjacent/high pistes where snowmaking allows) and typically runs to mid-to-late April; e.g. 2025/26 season commonly cited as opening ~7 Nov 2025 and closing ~20 Apr 2026, but we could not confirm these exact dates directly from kitzski.at itself, only via third-party aggregators, so treat as indicative rather than exact. Roughly equidistant between two hub airports: Innsbruck Airport (~90-100 km) and Salzburg Airport (~80 km), both ~1-1.5 hr drive. Kitzbühel has its own main-line railway station (Kitzbühel Hauptbahnhof) on the Salzburg-Tyrol railway with direct/regional connections from both Innsbruck and Salzburg.
Verified locations only: the resort area and its named cable car stations. We don't have precise coordinates for individual accommodation listings, so those aren't plotted here — use the booking link in the sidebar instead.
Element3 ski/snowboard school with kids' area at the Rasmushof (Mini-Streif)
Snow park on Kitzbüheler Horn (St. Johann side of the ski area)
Night skiing on the Gaisberg slopes in Kirchberg, Thursdays and Fridays 18:30-21:30
Every note below is drawn from the resort's own or an independent official publication.
We could not load a working 'facts and figures' page directly on kitzski.at (the resort page returned a 404 during research); the 233 km figure (102 km blue/easy, 66 km red/medium, 20 km black/difficult, plus 45 km of separately-classed ski routes) is corroborated across multiple independent secondary sources (tyrol.tl, kitzbueheler-alpen.com, skiresort.com) that attribute it to KitzSki's own published data.
English Wikipedia's 'Kitzbühel' article gives a notably lower total of 168 km of pistes and 56 lifts, with no difficulty breakdown - this may reflect an older count or a narrower definition (e.g. excluding Mittersill or ski routes). This is a real, unresolved disagreement between sources and should be surfaced to readers.
Base altitude 762 m is the town of Kitzbühel's altitude (Wikipedia, corroborated by general reference sources); marketing copy sometimes rounds the ski area's operating base to 770-800 m, likely referring to the lowest lift/piste base station rather than the town center.
Summit altitude: Kitzbüheler Horn (1,996 m) is the ski area's highest point; the famous Hahnenkamm side tops out lower, at 1,712 m (Wikipedia). We report the higher (Horn) figure as altitude_summit_m.
Lift count varies 56-58 depending on source and year; we report 57 as a rough midpoint and flag the imprecision rather than presenting a false-precision single number as fully verified.
Night skiing is not on the main Kitzbühel/KitzSki pistes directly above town; it is on the Gaisberg slope in neighboring Kirchberg, part of the same KitzSki area. Noted explicitly rather than implying it's in Kitzbühel village itself.
Second equipment shop (Hervis AlpineLab) confirmed via Kitzbühel Tourismus's own infrastructure listing; could not find a working direct URL for it, left null rather than guessing.
Lift list mixes Kitzbühel-side and Kirchberg/Jochberg-side lifts since KitzSki is one interconnected ski area; all listed lifts are directly reachable from the Kitzbühel base.
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