Webcam St. Moritz
St. Moritz (1,803 m), (local time): 10 °C, overcast, feels like 8 °C, wind 9 km/h S, humidity 79%. Source: Open-Meteo, at the camera's altitude.
Live St. Moritz webcam from Badrutt's Palace (1,803 m): the lake, St. Moritz Bad and Piz Rosatsch. See if there is snow or the lake is frozen.
Straight-line distances from St. Moritz
This webcam, in brief
How the camera works and what to expect from the images.
What can you see from the St. Moritz webcam?
The webcam is a panorama from Badrutt's Palace Hotel in St. Moritz Dorf. Lake St. Moritz (1,768 m) and its shore path are in the foreground, the houses of St. Moritz Bad are on the right, and the forest and summit of Piz Rosatsch (3,123 m) are opposite. Use it to check weather, snow and, in winter, the ice on the lake before you set off.
Where is St. Moritz and how do you get there?
St. Moritz is in the Upper Engadin, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; St. Moritz Dorf, the upper village, is at 1,822 m. By car you arrive over the Maloja Pass (from Chiavenna), the Bernina Pass (from Tirano) or the Julier Pass (from Chur). By train, the Rhaetian Railway runs the Albula line from Chur and the Bernina line from Tirano, both UNESCO World Heritage since 2008.
Is Lake St. Moritz frozen?
The lake usually freezes between December and January and stays frozen until spring: the webcam shows how it looks today. The ice hosts the Snow Polo World Cup (since 1985, in late January) and the White Turf horse races (since 1907, in February).
How high is St. Moritz?
St. Moritz Dorf is 1,822 m above sea level; the lake and St. Moritz Bad are lower, at about 1,770 m. Above the town, the Corviglia ski area climbs to Piz Nair at 3,057 m.
Is the image live? How often does it update?
When the camera is running, the image updates automatically every few minutes during daylight hours. The time of the latest snapshot is shown on the page, and the timelapse plays back the hours before.
Discover St. Moritz
St. Moritz grew up around a spring. At St. Moritz Bad the mineral water, rich in iron and carbonic acid, was already being collected in the Bronze Age: the larch wood of the oldest spring enclosure is dated to 1411 BC. In 1535 Paracelsus came through and praised its healing power. St. Moritz Dorf, the upper village, stands some fifty metres higher, at 1,822 metres.
Winter sport here comes with precise dates. St. Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948 and four Alpine World Ski Championships, in 1934, 1974, 2003 and 2017. In 1929 the first ski school in Switzerland was founded here. The Corviglia funicular has been running since 1928; its first section, up to Chantarella, dates from 1913. The railway had arrived in 1904 with the Albula line, followed in 1909 by the Bernina line.
A landmark of St. Moritz Dorf is a tower that leans: the 33-metre bell tower of the old church of St. Mauritius tilts by about 5.5 degrees because the slope is slipping. The church was demolished in 1893; in 1897 the residents voted to save the tower. Between Dorf and Bad a tram ran from 1896 to 1932.
The plateau around it is almost flat: from Lake St. Moritz to the Maloja Pass, 15 kilometres to the south-west, the difference in height is less than 50 metres. In the village the Segantini Museum holds the Alpine triptych the painter was working on when he died, in 1899. See also the Engadin webcams, Celerina and Silvaplana, the Bernina Red Train or the map.
Did you know?
The St. Moritz sun has been the resort's emblem since 1930 and legally protected since 1937. In 1986 the name "St. Moritz" was registered as a trademark too: the first place name in the world to be one.