Webcam Ardez
Ardez (1,670 m), (local time): 10 °C, overcast, feels like 8 °C, wind 10 km/h NW, humidity 80%. Source: Open-Meteo, at the camera's altitude.
From Bos-cha, above the village, the Ardez webcam (1,464 m) looks over the Lower Engadin and the Inn valley: see how low the snow has come.
Straight-line distances from Ardez
This webcam, in brief
How the camera works and what to expect from the images.
What can you see from the Ardez webcam?
The Lower Engadin seen from the hamlet of Bos-cha, above Ardez, between Zernez and Scuol. Use it for snow and weather in the lower part of the valley: Ardez lies about 350 metres lower than St. Moritz.
Why is Ardez a protected village?
Because, unlike many Engadin villages, it has not been struck by fire or disaster since it was destroyed in 1622: it has stayed as it was, with its sgraffito façades, and today it is a protected settlement of national importance.
What is the Adam and Eve house?
The Chasa Claglüna, whose decorated façade depicts the Fall: Adam, Eve, the serpent and the tree. It is one of the best-known historic houses in the Engadin.
Is there snow in Ardez now?
Reading of 8 October 2026 at 14:06 (local time): it is not snowing and no snow is forecast for the next 24 hours. Snow on the ground is not measured: the picture shows it. In Ardez, at 1,464 metres, snow usually stays from December to March. The webcam shows it in real time, with the time of the snapshot.
How do you get to Ardez?
By train on the Rhaetian Railway's Engadin line to Scuol-Tarasp, or from the north on the Vereina shuttle train from Klosters to Sagliains, a few kilometres to the west, which runs all year.
Discover Ardez
Bos-cha, the hamlet of Ardez the camera looks out from, is a dozen houses at 1,664 metres, between Ardez and Guarda, on the edge of a terrace on the left-hand side of the Lower Engadin. About thirty people live there. Until 1862 the valley road ran through here, from Guarda to Ftan and Scuol, and the hamlet was an overnight stop.
Ardez lies about two hundred metres lower down. It is first mentioned around 840, adopted the Reformation in 1538 and built its Reformed church in 1576–77. The everyday language is Vallader, the Romansh of the Lower Engadin: in 2000, 89 per cent of residents understood Romansh. The railway station dates from 1913. Since 2015 Ardez has no longer been a municipality of its own: it is part of Scuol, together with Ftan, Guarda, Sent and Tarasp.
The winter stage of the Via Engiadina between Guarda and Ardez passes through Bos-cha: 4.8 kilometres along the old Engadin road, about an hour and a half on foot. From up in the hamlet the picture shows how far down the slopes the snow has come and what the weather is doing in the Inn valley, before you set off by road or rail. Explore the other Engadin webcams, the view of Scuol, the one of Zuoz in the Upper Engadin or the map.
Did you know?
In 1975, European Architectural Heritage Year, Ardez was chosen as one of Switzerland's four model villages. The Steinsberg tower above the houses is what remains of the castle destroyed in 1499, during the Swabian War.