The Most Snow-Sure Resorts in the Alps, Ranked by 15 Winters
Snow-sure is a brochure word until someone puts a number on it.
Status board
24 Aug 2026, 20:43 CEST · showing 24 of 24Sölden
Tyrol, AT · 1,350-3,340 m
glacier area glacier
Ischgl
Tyrol, AT · 1,377-2,872 m
off season
St Anton am Arlberg
Tyrol, AT · 1,304-2,811 m
off season
Hintertux Glacier
Tyrol, AT · 1,500-3,250 m
glacier skiing glacier
Livigno
Lombardy, IT · 1,816-2,798 m
off season
Kitzbühel
Tyrol, AT · 800-2,000 m
off season
Mayrhofen
Tyrol, AT · 630-2,500 m
off season
Saalbach-Hinterglemm
Salzburg, AT · 1,003-2,096 m
off season
Zell am See
Salzburg, AT · 750-2,000 m
off season
Lech-Zürs
Vorarlberg, AT · 1,450-2,450 m
off season
Flachau
Salzburg, AT · 925-1,980 m
off season
Obergurgl-Hochgurgl
Tyrol, AT · 1,793-3,030 m
off season
Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis
Tyrol, AT · 1,200-2,828 m
off season
Stubai Glacier
Tyrol, AT · 1,750-3,210 m
glacier area glacier
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Veneto, IT · 1,224-3,244 m
off season
Kaprun
Salzburg, AT · 768-3,029 m
glacier area glacier
Obertauern
Salzburg, AT · 1,630-2,313 m
off season
Bormio
Lombardy, IT · 1,225-3,012 m
off season
Seefeld in Tirol
Tyrol, AT · 1,230-2,064 m
off season
Val Gardena
South Tyrol, IT · 1,236-2,518 m
off season
Breuil-Cervinia
Aosta Valley, IT · 2,050-3,480 m
glacier skiing glacier
Madonna di Campiglio
Trentino, IT · 1,550-2,504 m
off season
Zermatt
Valais, CH · 1,620-3,883 m
glacier skiing glacier
Crans-Montana
Valais, CH · 1,500-2,927 m
glacier area glacier
What opens next
published dates + 15-yr medians- ~ 25 Sep Sölden glacier first · estimated from history
- ~ 3 Oct Stubai Glacier glacier first · estimated from history
- ~ 16 Oct Kaprun glacier first · estimated from history
- 24 Oct Breuil-Cervinia glacier first · announced
- ~ 6 Nov Kitzbühel estimated from history
- ~ 13 Nov Obergurgl-Hochgurgl estimated from history
- ~ 20 Nov Obertauern estimated from history
- ~ 21 Nov Cortina d'Ampezzo estimated from history
- ~ 21 Nov Madonna di Campiglio estimated from history
- 26 Nov Ischgl announced
- ~ 28 Nov Livigno estimated from history
- ~ 28 Nov Saalbach-Hinterglemm estimated from history
- 2 Dec Lech-Zürs announced
- ~ 3 Dec St Anton am Arlberg estimated from history
- ~ 4 Dec Mayrhofen estimated from history
- ~ 4 Dec Flachau estimated from history
- ~ 4 Dec Bormio estimated from history
- ~ 4 Dec Val Gardena estimated from history
- ~ 5 Dec Zell am See estimated from history
- ~ 5 Dec Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis estimated from history
- ~ 5 Dec Seefeld in Tirol estimated from history
- 19 Dec Crans-Montana glacier first · announced
Not listed: Hintertux Glacier , Zermatt - open year-round on the glacier, so it never has an opening date.
How the verdict is made
Will Zermatt have snow in mid-December?
We don't guess. We check every season since 2011: did the resort have a 30 cm+ base at mid-mountain by 15 December?
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15 of the last 15 seasons hit a 30 cm+ base by 15 December; the median base on that date is 417 cm. The same record, month by month, lives on every resort page.
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Austria 16 resorts tracked · Tyrol, Salzburg, Vorarlberg · pilot
Italy 6 resorts tracked · Lombardy, Veneto, South Tyrol, Aosta Valley, Trentino · pilot
Switzerland 2 resorts tracked · Valais · pilot
Can You Still Ski at Easter? Late-Season Snow in the Alps
Late-season skiing is reliable if you book altitude, a glacier, or a resort that stays open late, and risky if you book a low resort in a late Easter.
When Does the Ski Season Start in the Alps? Skiing October and November
The Alpine season starts in October on the glaciers and ramps through November as the first high resorts open.
Methodology
Every number on this site has a source and a date.
Verdicts are generated each morning from measured station data and forecast models - never hand-written, never stale. Historical probabilities are recomputed every autumn from 15 years of archive data. The full dataset is documented and citable. Read the methodology
- Open-Meteoforecasts + 15-yr archive
- GeoSphere Austriameasured station snow depths
- OpenSkiMaplifts, runs, elevations
- avalanche.reportEAWS danger levels
- SLF SwitzerlandSwiss avalanche bulletins
- Windylive webcams