- When to go
- September 14° · 14 rainy days
- Per day
- ~72 · 119 · 149 €budget · mid · comfort, per person · checked 21 Sep 2026
- How many days
- 1days
- For you
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- Nearest airport
- 60 km Salzburg · 82 km Innsbruck
- Right now
Kitzbühel is a small town of painted sixteenth-century houses that the world knows for something else: the Streif on the Hahnenkamm, the downhill run raced every January and rated the hardest on the World Cup circuit. For those few days the town has more visitors than residents.
Outside January this is a quiet place with a main street you walk in ten minutes and one of Austria's larger ski areas above it. In summer the same lifts serve hikers and bikes, and the Hahnenkamm can be walked — the path runs right beside the one racers reach over 150 kilometres an hour on in January.
It is also the most expensive corner of Tyrol, and you feel it in the price of a room and a meal. If you came for the mountain rather than the name, neighbouring towns — Kirchberg or St Johann — cost less, and the lifts are the same or share a pass.
Guides for Kitzbühel
Shorter, practical pages for one concrete question each — how many days, how much money, where to sleep, where to escape the city.
Kitzbühel in 2 days
→Day one holds the town and the world's most famous downhill run; day two takes the lake and the other peak — nothing on…
Where to stay in Kitzbühel
→In Kitzbühel the choice is between the centre, where everything is on foot, and Kirchberg, where the room costs less…
What to eat in Kitzbühel
→Schlutzkrapfen opens the meal, goulash and Wiener Schnitzel are the main course, and the butcher's set lunch is the…
The best time to visit Kitzbühel
→Kitzbühel has one season for the mountain and one January week that gives the town its name worldwide — between the…
What to see in Kitzbühel
The Hahnenkamm and the Streif
Home to the World Cup's downhill each January. In summer a cable car takes you up and you can walk it.
€35 · 2 h · closed off-season (before 23 May and after 11 Oct 2026)
Vorderstadt
The town's main street, with painted facades. Ten minutes end to end, and that is the whole old town.
free · 30 min
The Schwarzsee
A lake a couple of kilometres out, for swimming in summer and skating in winter. Flat cycling all the way.
€6 · half a day
The Kitzbüheler Horn
The other hill above town, with a panorama road and an alpine flower garden. Less known than the Hahnenkamm, and quieter.
€35 · 2 h · closed off-season (before 23 May and after 11 Oct 2026)
The Kitzbühel museum
The town museum in an old granary, with a room on the history of skiing. This is where the 1893 story is told.
€9 · 1 h · closed Sunday, Monday
Kirchberg
The neighbouring village a few kilometres away, on the same lift pass. Cheaper to sleep in, and the mountain is the same.
free · half a day
Two things you probably did not know
The Streif at Kitzbuhel is the hardest downhill in the World Cup. The Mausefalle starts on an 85 per cent gradient with a jump of some eighty metres, and the fastest racers reach 140 kilometres an hour.
Before skiing Kitzbuhel lived off copper and silver mines worked since the Bronze Age. The first pair of skis arrived in 1892 with Franz Reisch, copying a Norwegian design, and he came down from the Kitzbuheler Horn on them.
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