Is January a Good Time to Ski in the Alps?
Yes.
Status board
12 Oct 2026, 06:52 CEST · showing 38 of 38Sölden
Tyrol, AT · 1,350-3,340 m
glacier skiing 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 skiing 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 area 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
Verbier
Valais, CH · 1,500-3,330 m
off season
Davos Klosters
Graubünden, CH · 1,560-2,844 m
off season
Saas-Fee
Valais, CH · 1,800-3,600 m
glacier area glacier
St. Moritz
Graubünden, CH · 1,772-3,057 m
off season
Laax
Graubünden, CH · 1,100-3,018 m
glacier area glacier
Courmayeur
Aosta Valley, IT · 1,224-2,755 m
off season
Sestriere
Piedmont, IT · 2,035-2,786 m
off season
La Thuile
Aosta Valley, IT · 1,441-2,608 m
off season
Sauze d'Oulx
Piedmont, IT · 1,509-2,687 m
off season
Grindelwald
Bernese Oberland, CH · 1,034-2,500 m
off season
Andermatt
Uri, CH · 1,437-2,961 m
off season
Flumserberg
St. Gallen, CH · 1,400-2,222 m
off season
Corvara
South Tyrol, IT · 1,568-2,526 m
off season
Engelberg
Obwalden, CH · 1,013-3,020 m
glacier area glacier
What opens next
published dates + 15-yr medians- ~ 16 Oct Kaprun glacier first · estimated from history
- 24 Oct Breuil-Cervinia glacier first · announced
- 24 Oct Engelberg glacier first · announced
- 31 Oct Saas-Fee glacier first · announced
- ~ 6 Nov Kitzbühel estimated from history
- ~ 13 Nov Obergurgl-Hochgurgl estimated from history
- 14 Nov Andermatt announced
- ~ 20 Nov Obertauern estimated from history
- 20 Nov Davos Klosters announced
- ~ 21 Nov Cortina d'Ampezzo estimated from history
- ~ 21 Nov Madonna di Campiglio estimated from history
- 21 Nov Grindelwald announced
- ~ 21 Nov Flumserberg estimated from history
- 26 Nov Ischgl announced
- ~ 28 Nov Livigno estimated from history
- ~ 28 Nov Saalbach-Hinterglemm estimated from history
- ~ 28 Nov St. Moritz estimated from history
- 28 Nov Laax glacier first · announced
- 28 Nov Courmayeur announced
- 28 Nov La Thuile announced
- 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
- 4 Dec Corvara announced
- ~ 5 Dec Zell am See estimated from history
- ~ 5 Dec Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis estimated from history
- ~ 5 Dec Seefeld in Tirol estimated from history
- 5 Dec Verbier announced
- 5 Dec Sestriere announced
- 5 Dec Sauze d'Oulx announced
- 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 Saas-Fee 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 130 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 11 resorts tracked · Lombardy, Veneto, South Tyrol, Aosta Valley, Trentino, Piedmont · pilot
Switzerland 11 resorts tracked · Valais, Graubünden, Bernese Oberland, Uri, St. Gallen, Obwalden · pilot
North or South of the Alps: Which Side Gets the Reliable Snow?
The usual answer is that the Italian side of the Alps is drier.
The Best Alpine Resorts for Beginners, by Share of Easy Terrain
Across the 34 resorts we track, easy piste makes up 36.5% of the total, and the resorts with the most of it are not the big names.
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