2026–2027 Season Overview
Planning your ski holiday? Here's when every major European resort opens and closes for the 2026–2027 season. We update these dates as resorts confirm them.
Year-Round Resorts
These resorts offer skiing 365 days a year thanks to high-altitude glaciers:
- Zermatt, Switzerland — year-round on Matterhorn Glacier Paradise (3,883 m)
- Hintertux Glacier, Austria — Austria's only 365-day resort (3,250 m)
- Saas-Fee, Switzerland — Allalin glacier (3,600 m)
Early Openers (September – November)
- Sölden — late September (glacier), hosts World Cup opener in October
- Kitzbühel — mid-October (snow permitting)
- St. Moritz — late November (Corviglia and Diavolezza)
- Val d'Isère — late November
Main Season (December – April)
Most Alpine resorts open in early-to-mid December and close in mid-to-late April:
- Courchevel / Méribel — early December to mid-April
- Verbier — late November to late April
- Davos-Klosters — mid-November to late April
- Lech-Zürs — early December to late April
- Chamonix — early December to late April
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen — mid-December to mid-April
- Grandvalira — early December to mid-April
Late Closers (May+)
- Val d'Isère — open until early May
- Sölden — glacier open until late May
- Verbier — Mont Fort glacier occasionally open into May
No matter when you visit, book a FindSkiCoach instructor to make the most of the conditions.