Davos accommodation · WEF 2027
Where to stay in Davos for WEF
During Forum week, a five-minute difference on the map can change your whole day.
This is the whole town explained: the two streets it runs on, what the landmarks actually cost you on foot, which streets climb, where the security perimeter falls by house number, and what any of it does to the price. Addresses and distances throughout, so you can place a property before anyone tells you about it.
The geography of Davos, in one read
Davos is a single valley with a single main axis, and almost every decision about where to stay comes down to where you sit along it. The town runs roughly south-west to north-east, from Davos Platz at one end to Davos Dorf at the other. The two railway stations mark those ends and sit about 2.5 km apart — thirty minutes of walking from one to the other, in January, on a pavement that has been walked into ice by lunchtime.
Along that axis run two parallel streets, one above the other on the valley side. The Promenade is the upper one and the one you have heard of: shops that become Houses for the week, the densest foot traffic in town, closed to cars for most of the day. Talstrasse runs one street below it and takes the traffic instead, which makes it the street where cars can actually reach your door.
The Congress Centre is at Talstrasse 49a, roughly midway between the two stations. That single fact reorganises most people's mental map, because "near the Promenade" and "near the Congress Centre" describe two different places once two hotels on the same Promenade can be 900 m apart.
Everything off those two streets goes uphill. Obere Strasse sits above the Promenade on the hillside; Scalettastrasse climbs gently away from Platz; Heimatstrasse is reached by a short flight of steep steps. Five minutes downhill to dinner is twelve to fifteen minutes back up afterwards, often on ice. The street guide below says which way each one runs.
Davos landmarks and their actual addresses
Distances are straight lines from the Congress Centre between coordinates we geocoded and checked, so treat each one as the shortest the walk could possibly be. The real walk is longer, and in January it is longer again.
| Landmark | Address | From the Congress Centre |
|---|---|---|
| Davos Congress CentreWhere the Annual Meeting itself happens. | Talstrasse 49a, 7270 Davos Platz | — |
| Grandhotel BelvédèreThe closest of the big hotels to the Congress Centre, at the top of the Promenade. | Promenade 89, 7270 Davos Platz | 376 m · about 5 min on foot |
| Hotel EuropeDown at the Platz end of the Promenade, near the station. | Promenade 63, 7270 Davos Platz | 900 m · about 11 min on foot |
| Hotel Schweizerhof MorosaniThe southern end of the run, 144 m along the Promenade from Hotel Europe. | Promenade 50, 7270 Davos Platz | 985 m · about 12 min on foot |
| Davos Dorf railway stationThe northern end of town. Trains from Landquart and Klosters. | Bahnhof Davos Dorf, 7260 Davos Dorf | 1261 m · about 16 min on foot |
| Davos Platz railway stationThe southern end of town, and where most arrivals land. | Bahnhof Davos Platz, 7270 Davos Platz | 1266 m · about 16 min on foot |
Three things worth reading off that table. Hotel Europe and the Congress Centre are at opposite ends of the walk, 900 m apart, so an address on the Promenade can be a long way from the Annual Meeting. The Morosani Schweizerhof and Hotel Europe are 144 m apart, near neighbours despite thirteen house numbers between them. And Hotel Europe sits 513 m from Davos Platz station, which makes it one of the easiest arrivals in town if you are coming by train.
Those three confirmed points also give the Promenade a scale. Between number 50 and number 89 the street covers 737 m, which is about 19 m per house number. Multiply the gap between two numbers by twenty and you have the walk between them, near enough to plan with. It is a rule of thumb from three measured points rather than a survey, and the Promenade curves, so treat it as an estimate that gets rougher the further you extend it.
The part that catches people out
The Davos security perimeter, by street and house number
For the duration of the Annual Meeting the Cantonal Police close a cordon around the Congress Centre. Inside it, movement is controlled: getting in means accreditation and a checkpoint, and every trip back to change clothes means queueing again. Staying inside the cordon removes that queue from your day, which is why those addresses go first and go expensive.
For the 2026 layout, the perimeter covered these ranges:
- Talstrasse40–55
- Promenade85–115
- Promenade155–165
Subject to change — the Cantonal Police redraw the perimeter every year. The ranges above describe the 2026 layout. They are redrawn each year against that year's state guests and threat assessment, so read them as the shape of the thing and confirm before you commit on the strength of a house number.
Two traps live in those numbers. The first is that Klosters has a Talstrasse as well, fifteen kilometres up the valley, so a Talstrasse address inside the numeric range can be nowhere near the cordon. The second is that the boundary lands mid-street: somewhere two or three house numbers outside this year's line is genuinely outside today, and a realistic candidate for next year's perimeter. The edge is worth asking about.
Prices inside the cordon behave differently from the rest of town. What is being bought there is private meeting space within the perimeter, with the bedroom incidental, so a studio at CHF 18,000–25,000 elsewhere runs from roughly CHF 15,000 for something plain to well past CHF 80,000, and CHF 105,000 is unremarkable for a luxury finish. Book a year ahead.
Perimeter ranges published by the Kantonspolizei Graubünden and the Gemeinde Davos Zonenplan WEF decree.
What an address costs you on foot
Three bands, because the question is rarely whether a walk is possible. It is whether you will still be doing it cheerfully on the fourth trip of the day, in the dark, in January. The figures are measured; which band a stretch of street falls into is our judgement, and it moves as the perimeter and the Houses move.
A short walk
Under 400 m · 3–5 minutes
You stop thinking about the walk. You go back for a coat, you take a call outside, you make a dinner across town and still get to the next thing. This is what the premium inside the perimeter is actually buying.
- Talstrasse 40 — 221 m, about 3 minutes, and the first number inside the 2026 cordon
- Grandhotel Belvédère, Promenade 89 — 376 m, about 5 minutes
A real walk, and a good address
Around 900 m–1 km · 11–13 minutes
Comfortably walkable and genuinely central, and you will feel it by the fourth trip. Right for anyone whose day has two or three anchors rather than eight. The Promenade end of this band puts you among the Houses, which is its own reason to be there.
- Hotel Europe, Promenade 63 — 900 m, about 11 minutes, and 513 m from Davos Platz station
- Morosani Schweizerhof, Promenade 50 — 985 m, about 12 minutes
Feasible, but considerable
Beyond the numbers above · 15 minutes and up
Still a walk you can do, and one you will start arranging a car around. The upper Promenade numbers sit here: past about 115 the street has carried you well beyond the cordon and on toward Davos Dorf, and the walk stops being incidental to the day. Worth taking for the right property at the right price, with the commute priced in rather than discovered.
- Promenade 118 — outside the 2026 perimeter and far enough along the street to plan around
- Anything toward Davos Dorf or out along Dischmastrasse
The pattern underneath all three: on the Promenade the number tells you how far along the street you are, at roughly 19 m a number, so it decides your walk more than the street name does. On Talstrasse the number tells you which side of the cordon you are on. Give us a specific address and we will tell you which of those two problems you have.
Send us an address and we will place it
Looking at a property and unsure what its address really means? Send the street and number. We come back with the walk to the Congress Centre, which way the street runs, which side of the current perimeter it falls on, and what the number tells us that the listing does not. No obligation, and it costs nothing.
Davos WEF accommodation questions
- Why does a 10-minute drive in Davos take 90 minutes during WEF?
- Mapping software routes you along roads as they normally work. During the Annual Meeting those roads carry police checkpoints, closed sections, motorcades that stop traffic without notice, and alpine snow, and none of that is in the route it gives you. The practical consequence is that a car stops being a time-saver inside town. The walking figures on this page are the ones worth planning against, and the reason we describe accommodation by walking minutes.
- Can I book accommodation in Davos for just two or three nights during WEF?
- Rarely, in central Davos. Owners and hotels generally let the whole Forum week as one booking, because a two-night let costs them the week. Short stays turn up further out — down the valley toward Landquart and Chur, or in Klosters — and they come with the commute attached. If your dates are short, tell us and we will say plainly whether anything central exists for them.
- Do guests need a WEF badge to visit an apartment or lounge I have rented in Davos?
- It depends on which side of the security perimeter the front door sits, and the perimeter is redrawn every year by the Cantonal Police. Inside the cordon, reaching your door means clearing a checkpoint, so an unbadged guest needs arrangements made in advance. Outside it, a guest walks up to the door. Because the line moves and falls mid-street, confirm the current year's boundary against your exact house number before you invite anyone — we will check a specific address for you.
- Is it better to stay in Klosters or in central Davos during the Forum?
- Klosters buys you space and quiet for the money, and it costs you the road. On a clear day it is around twenty minutes by car or train. On a snowy one, or behind a motorcade, that becomes open-ended. It works for a delegation with a driver and a loose schedule, and it goes wrong for anyone with back-to-back meetings on the Promenade at either end of the day.
- How do I make sure my team is not walking up an icy hill every morning?
- Ask which way the street runs before you book, because listings almost never say and a gradient does not show up in a walking time. The street guide further down this page gives the answer for each of the ten streets people are usually offered, including which ones involve steps and which ones are a climb in formal shoes. Send us any address that is not on that list and we will tell you.
Available Now
Why no photos or exact addresses? These are private properties, not listed publicly elsewhere. We show enough to help you judge fit — location, size, what's included — and share the rest once we know what you're looking for.
A working sample of what's currently on our radar — street, walking time and room count, never an exact address or a photo. Want the exact location? Hit "Help Me" on a listing and we'll come back to you directly.
By request
The list is private
Addresses, prices and availability go out as a private list with an access code, rather than sitting on a public page. Owners and agencies ask us to keep it that way, and it means what you see has been checked recently instead of left up for months.
Tell us your dates and what you are trying to solve — how many people, which part of town, whether you need to be inside the security perimeter, what the budget looks like. We send a code the same day, and where a code alone would not answer it, we come back with what is genuinely open for those nights.
Prefer email? hello@davosaccess.com. Already have a code? Open the list.
Promenade-adjacent
2–8 minutes to the Congress Centre
Suits: People with back-to-back days, anyone hosting, and anyone who will be out late.
In snow: The most expensive ground in Davos and the first to go. Noisy at night, and you will be walking past crowds every time you leave the door. In heavy snow it is the only zone where nothing about your day changes.
Davos Platz
8–15 minutes to the Congress Centre
Suits: The default choice. Close enough to walk everything, far enough to sleep.
In snow: Some of it is uphill, which matters more than the map suggests when the pavement is ice. Plan fifteen minutes and you will rarely be late.
Davos Dorf
20–30 minutes on foot, or a short train ride
Suits: Teams who want more space, and anyone who books later in the cycle.
In snow: You commit to a commute two or three times a day. The train is quick when it runs to plan, but the platform is cold and the last leg is still a walk. In fresh snow, add time.
Outer Davos
30+ minutes, effectively a drive or bus
Suits: Larger groups, longer stays, and budgets that will not stretch to the centre.
In snow: You need reliable transport, which is exactly what is hardest that week. Road closures and queues can turn a ten-minute drive into forty. Works well if your days are anchored in one place, badly if you are moving all day.
Klosters
About 25 minutes by train, plus the walk at each end
Suits: People who want a quieter evening and do not mind the rail commute.
In snow: Pleasant, calmer and often better value, but you are firmly on the train timetable. Late dinners in Davos mean a cold platform afterwards or a car you may not be able to move.
Understand the Town Before You Book It.
Google Maps measures distance. It doesn't measure January. A route that looks effortless on a summer map can include icy gradients, pedestrian congestion, security checkpoints or an uphill return that feels twice as long at the end of a fourteen-hour day. Explore the map below to compare walking times from the Congress Centre, Hotel Belvédère, Bahnhof Platz, Davos Platz and Davos Dorf. Every marker answers one of the questions visitors ask us every year. The five shaded areas are the zones above — hover one to see its name and walk time without clicking:
- "Can I walk this comfortably?"
- "How long does it actually take?"
- "Is this close enough for daily meetings?"
- "Would I stay here again?"
Field Logistics & Location Matching
Ten Streets, Ten Different Weeks.
A street name tells you nothing about the walk attached to it. The difference between Talstrasse and Obere Strasse is whether your morning starts with a flat five-minute walk or an icy climb after dinner. A map will not show you that. Between Promenade and Dischmastrasse, the question is how you plan to move: on foot, by shuttle or with a driver. Each street below includes the details we look at before recommending a property: terrain, walking reality, car access and the practical advantages that never appear in a listing.
Don't guess your street. Know it before you sign.
For the rest of it — which lobbies actually work for a private meeting, and what checkpoints do to your schedule — see our ground intelligence guide. For a quick zone-by-zone comparison instead of the full street guide, see Davos WEF Zones & Walking Times. Hosting rather than just sleeping here? See where the real dining and wine rooms actually are. And some of the best conversations of the week won't happen in any of these rooms at all — see The Serendipity Shuttle.
Book your Davos accommodation
Tell us your dates, and a person who knows Davos personally matches you with real hotel, chalet or apartment options — usually within hours.
You get real options with the exact pros and cons of each one — the walk, the noise, the ice, whatever actually matters that week — so you can decide fast. Pricing and availability shift throughout the week, so we always confirm current numbers directly with you rather than a static list that's already out of date.
Booking late? See our last-minute accommodation playbook — what's realistically still available, and how we find it fast.
- Share your dates, group size, budget and what matters most to you.
- Someone who knows Davos on the ground reviews it personally.
- You hear back within hours, with real options and the exact pros and cons of each.
Have a place to offer?
If you own or manage somewhere in Davos, Dorf, Klosters or the outer valley and want it on our radar for Annual Meeting week, tell us about it. We reply to every message directly.
Going solo? Share a room
A lot of first-timers come alone and don't want to pay for a whole place by themselves. Register your interest and your dates, and we'll reach out if we can match you with someone in a similar spot.
Do you sell badges?
We do not sell badges. Official WEF and hotel credentials are tied to specific vetted individuals and institutions. They require ID, photo, and police registration, and are issued by hotel and WEF security. They cannot legally be bought or sold by a third party. If someone offers to sell you one, that is not us, and it is not legitimate.
A shortage of real hotel badges left people outside in January 2026 — see what went wrong with badges in 2026 for how the allocation works and what to check before you travel.
The rest of the accommodation guide
What's available
Properties currently known to us for Forum week — address, room configuration, how many it sleeps and how far it is from the Congress Centre. It moves week to week.
See what's open →How to Davos, last minute
What to do when the obvious options are gone: how the market behaves in the last weeks, and where real availability sits once the booking platforms look empty.
Leave it late properly →The Swiss Way
How to read a Swiss mountain listing before you pay for it. Room counts, half-rooms, who actually sleeps where, and the questions to ask before you sign.
Decode a listing →The Crazy Prices
Why an ordinary apartment costs a fortune for one week in January — the supply, the timing and the incentives behind Forum-week pricing.
Understand the number →Zones & walking times
The checkpoints, the zones and what each one costs you on foot. Worth reading before you fall in love with an address.
Check the walk →The private list
The full off-market list — apartments, studios and chalets across Davos and Klosters, searchable by walk time, size and security perimeter. Opens with an access code.
Open the list →Need something else — a bigger group, a specific street, dates the usual options don't cover? Talk to Ground Support. Speaking at Davos this year, not looking for a room? List your session on The Side Stage.