Ski areas

The mountain first, then the village. Each page scores the ski area on 11 mountain criteria and every village on it for the week around the skiing.

Each ski area here has had a final review of its scores; more will follow. The matcher itself covers all 69 ski areas and 178 villages.

Ski ArlbergThree hundred kilometres on one pass, terrain that tests strong skiers, and six villages as different as Lech’s five-star calm and Zürs’ ski-in/ski-out quiet.
Les 3 ValléesSix hundred linked kilometres — the largest ski area in the world and the reference for groomed cruising — with ten villages, from palace-hotel Courchevel 1850 to Orelle in the valley.
Matterhorn Ski ParadiseZermatt and Cervinia share a glacier that skis to 3,883 m. In our data no ski area in the Alps holds a week booked months ahead better — and Zermatt itself is car-free.
Sella Ronda / Dolomiti Superski coreTwelve hundred kilometres of immaculate cruising on one pass, villages where dining scores at the top of our scale — and, honestly, gentle terrain for experts.
Whistler BlackcombThe largest ski area in North America: alpine bowls, glaciers and 1,600 m of vertical above a pedestrian village, with coastal snow that is deep but can be wet lower down.
Niseko UnitedFifteen metres of Hokkaido powder a year — the most reliable fixed week in the world in our data — on short, gentle pistes where the skiing is what lies between them.
Portes du SoleilA vast circuit across the French–Swiss border, about an hour from Geneva, with family villages from Les Gets to Champéry.