Ski Almanac

Resort guides

25 guides in 5 countries. Every guide puts the same facts in the same place. Beside each name: the ski area, its beginner share, mapped kilometres and the free child pass.

Illustration of a snowy Alpine valley at the start of blue hour: villages with lit windows by a lake, a church spire, chairlifts on the slopes and peaks catching the last pink light

Austria 8 guides

  • Illustration of Alpbach: dark-wood farmhouses around a church on a snowy hillside, children building a snowman

    Alpbach

    Ski Juwel Alpbachtal-Wildschönau

    27% beginner · 66 km of runs · Budget

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Bramberg am Wildkogel: a valley village with a church spire below a gondola, a family tobogganing down a lit run at dusk

    Bramberg am Wildkogel

    Wildkogel

    74% beginner · 68.6 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Ellmau: a Tyrolean village below a jagged limestone wall, a red funicular climbing the slope

    Ellmau

    SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental

    50% beginner · 223.2 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Fiss: an onion-domed church on a sunny terrace high above a deep valley, children on toboggans

    Fiss

    Serfaus Fiss Ladis

    25% beginner · 146.4 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Flachau: a valley village at dusk with an onion-domed church and a floodlit piste on the hillside

    Flachau

    Flachau

    22% beginner · 43.6 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Gerlitzen Alpe: a sunny plateau of snowy meadows and pistes above a long valley lake, children sledging

    Gerlitzen Alpe

    Gerlitzen Alpe

    36% beginner · 36 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass not confirmed

  • Illustration of Gerlos: a valley village along a frozen stream with a gondola rising from its centre, a family walking on a snowy path

    Gerlos

    Zillertal Arena

    36% beginner · 119.5 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Hinterglemm: wooden chalet hotels along a frozen stream, snowy mountains with pistes and chairlifts, families walking with skis

    Hinterglemm

    Skicircus Saalbach-Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn

    66% beginner · 225.1 km of runs · Budget

    Free pass under 6

France 8 guides

  • Illustration of Alpe d’Huez: a sunny high plateau of chalets and apartments below wide open pistes, a beginner area in front

    Alpe d'Huez

    Alpe d'Huez Grand Domaine

    56% beginner · 160.2 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 5

  • Illustration of Arc 1800 at sunset: wood-clad apartment buildings above the pines, a gondola overhead, and a parent skiing with a small child on the beginner slope

    Arc 1800

    Les Arcs

    57% beginner · 169.3 km of runs · Budget

    Free pass under 5

  • Illustration of Auron: chalets and apartment buildings on a sunny plateau below steep peaks, children skating on the village square

    Auron

    Auron

    55% beginner · 61.6 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 5

  • Illustration of Avoriaz: tall wood-shingled buildings on a cliff edge, a horse-drawn sleigh in the snowy street

    Avoriaz

    Avoriaz

    81% beginner · 77.8 km of runs · Premium

    Free pass under 5

  • Illustration of Belle Plagne: a wood-clad village high in a snowy bowl, families skiing down at sunset

    Belle Plagne

    La Plagne

    64% beginner · 186.4 km of runs · Budget

    Free pass under 5

  • Illustration of Chantemerle in Serre Chevalier: chalets and stone houses below a forested piste and a gondola, a family on snowshoes

    Chantemerle (Serre Chevalier)

    Serre-Chevalier

    61% beginner · 155 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Courchevel 1850: chalet hotels and a church spire around the snow front, a gondola overhead

    Courchevel 1850

    Les Trois Vallées

    62% beginner · 522 km of runs · Luxury

    Free pass under 5

  • Illustration of Flaine: grey concrete modernist blocks in a snowy bowl below limestone ridges, a small child in a ski-school group in front

    Flaine

    Le Grand Massif

    58% beginner · 173.7 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 8

Switzerland 4 guides

  • Illustration of Andermatt: stone and wooden houses in a wide treeless valley below a cable car, a family sledging down a snowy road

    Andermatt

    Andermatt+Disentis+Sedrun

    48% beginner · 92.2 km of runs · Premium

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Arosa: a village around a frozen lake below pointed rocky peaks, a horse-drawn sleigh on the lakeside road

    Arosa

    Arosa Lenzerheide

    60% beginner · 159.3 km of runs · Premium

    Free pass under 6

  • Illustration of Flims: a village on a sunny forest terrace below the long cliff of the Flimserstein, a parent pulling a child on a sledge

    Flims

    Laax

    47% beginner · 122.5 km of runs · Premium

    Free pass not confirmed

  • Illustration of Grindelwald: wooden chalets in a snowy valley below the Eiger, a gondola rising and children sledging

    Grindelwald

    Grindelwald - Wengen (Kleine Scheidegg - Männlichen)

    41% beginner · 85.9 km of runs · Premium

    Free pass not confirmed

Italy 4 guides

  • Illustration of Andalo: a plateau village below pale jagged Dolomite peaks, a family walking at the edge of the woods

    Andalo

    Paganella, Area sciistica Andalo Fai della Paganella

    29% beginner · 33.9 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 8

  • Illustration of Bormio: an old stone town with church towers below snowy slopes and a cable car, a family walking in a snowy street

    Bormio

    Bormio Ski

    20% beginner · 30.3 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 8

  • Illustration of Corvara: a Dolomites village below a pale limestone peak at sunset, a chairlift in front

    Corvara

    Alta Badia

    66% beginner · 110.2 km of runs · Premium

    Free pass under 8

  • Illustration of Folgarida: chalets in the pines below a gondola with Dolomite peaks beyond, small children following their ski instructor

    Folgarida

    Folgarida-Marilleva

    56% beginner · 41 km of runs · Mid

    Free pass under 8

A lettered tile means the cover painting for that guide is still to come. Terrain figures describe the whole linked ski area, so villages in one area share them.