Webcam Maloja
Maloja (1,815 m), (local time): 7 °C, showers, feels like 6 °C, wind 3 km/h S, humidity 100%. Source: Open-Meteo, at the camera's altitude.
Webcam on the Maloja Pass (1,815 m): the lake plateau on one side, the hairpins down towards Italy on the other. Check for snow on the pass.
Straight-line distances from Maloja
This webcam, in brief
How the camera works and what to expect from the images.
Is the Maloja Pass open?
Yes, usually all year: the Maloja (1,815 m) is the way into the Engadin from Italy and stays open in winter too, with short closures possible after heavy snowfalls. The hairpins on the Bregaglia side are the tricky stretch in snow or ice: you need winter equipment.
What can you see from the Maloja webcam?
The village of Maloja at 1,815 metres, on the threshold between the Engadin and Bregaglia, at the end of Lake Sils. Use it to check snow and visibility at the top of the pass before climbing from Chiavenna.
What is the Maloja wind?
A thermal breeze that on sunny days comes in over the pass and blows down along the Upper Engadin from the south-west, usually from shortly before midday until late afternoon, and that has made Silvaplana a kitesurfing capital. It takes its name from the pass because this is where it comes in.
What is there to see in Maloja?
The Atelier Segantini, the round studio that the painter designed as a model of the Engadin pavilion for the Paris Exposition of 1900; the Maloja Palace, opened in 1884; and Lake Sils, with the highest scheduled boat service in Europe.
How do you get to Maloja?
From Chiavenna, climbing Val Bregaglia through Castasegna and up the hairpins of the pass; from St. Moritz along the lakes. By bus on the Swiss lines from Chiavenna or St. Moritz; the nearest station is St. Moritz.
Discover Maloja
Maloja is the last village of the Upper Engadin, yet it belongs to the municipality of Bregaglia and its official language is Italian. It has about 300 inhabitants and sits at 1,815 metres, at the top of the pass, where Lake Sils ends. Locals still call it Maloggia, "little alder wood": Maloja has been the official name only since 1947.
Above the village there is a triple watershed. At the Lunghin Pass, at over 2,600 metres, the waters of three seas part: the Inn, which rises just below at Lake Lunghin, flows to the Danube and the Black Sea; the Julia runs down towards the Rhine and the North Sea; the Maira crosses Bregaglia and reaches the Po and the Adriatic. From Maloja a waymarked path climbs to the pass in about two and a half hours.
On the edge of the village, above the start of the pass road, the Torre Belvedere dates from 1882: the Belgian count Camille de Renesse wanted to turn Maloja into a resort for the aristocracy. Today the tower houses an exhibition on the history of the landscape, and the Pro Natura reserve around it, 33 hectares, protects 36 glacial potholes, shafts carved into the rock by glacier meltwater. The painter Giovanni Segantini lived in Maloja from 1894 and has been buried in the village cemetery since 1899.
The pass also has a cloud of its own. Mostly in autumn, the damp air rising from Bregaglia condenses over the pass and forms the "Maloja snake", a band of low cloud that stretches out above the lakes and sometimes reaches St. Moritz: it is taken as a sign of bad weather. See also the Engadin webcams, Sils Maria at the other end of the lake, Soglio in Bregaglia, the other Alpine passes or the map.
Did you know?
The Maloja is a one-sided pass: from the Engadin you arrive almost on the flat, then the road plunges into the Bregaglia through 22 bends, 13 of them hairpins, down to Castasegna at 696 metres.