Mostly not - glacier skiing only. Hintertux Glacier and Breuil-Cervinia and Zermatt runs lifts 365 days a year on the glacier; the other 29 tracked resorts are closed for summer. The next opening is Sölden's glacier season ~25 Sep, 20 days from now (estimated). The main winter season starts with Kitzbühel on ~6 Nov (estimated). Planning a winter trip? The reliability data below shows which weeks are safe to book. Updated 5 Sep 2026.
Generated 05 Sep 2026, 06:37 CEST · next update tomorrow ~06:30 Alpine time
Not listed: Hintertux Glacier , Zermatt - open year-round on the glacier, so it never has an opening date.
We don't guess. We check every season since 2011: did the resort have a 30 cm+ base at mid-mountain by 15 December?
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.
try: st anton january · is hintertux open · livigno
Across the 32 Austrian, Italian and Swiss resorts we track, mid-mountain altitude explains about a third of the difference in snow reliability and almost none of it in the range most resorts actually sit in.
Across the 27 resorts we track, the second half of March has the deepest median snow of the whole winter, deeper than either half of February.
For most Alpine resorts there is no decision to make: one airport is 45 minutes closer than anything else and the rest is noise.
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