What's on in Courmayeur, Italy through the year

Peak crowds — Christmas to Epiphany, Christmas holidays in Italy

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Ski season (28 Nov – 20 Apr (usually)), Christmas to Epiphany (22 Dec – 7 Jan)

Busy — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Ski season (28 Nov – 20 Apr (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in March.

Still on: Ski season (28 Nov – 20 Apr (usually))

Busy — Easter holidays in Italy, school holidays in 5 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in April.

Still on: Ski season (28 Nov – 20 Apr (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in May.

Busy — Summer holidays in Italy, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Season

  Tour du Mont Blanc season

  20 Jun – 20 Sep · usuallyTrail seasonBook early

  The refuges on the Italian side of the circuit staff up once the cols clear, usually from late June. Beds on the route are the constraint and they go months ahead.

Busy — Summer holidays in Italy, school holidays in 6 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in July.

Still on: Tour du Mont Blanc season (20 Jun – 20 Sep (usually))

Peak crowds — Ferragosto, Summer holidays in Italy

• Holiday

  Ferragosto

  5–25 AugSchool holidaysCrowded

  The town is a summer resort as much as a winter one and mid-August fills it, along with the queue for the Skyway cable car and the tunnel traffic through the valley. Source ↗

Still on: Tour du Mont Blanc season (20 Jun – 20 Sep (usually))

Peak crowds — Tor des Geants, Summer holidays in Italy

• Festival

  Tor des Geants

  8–20 Sep · usuallyMajor festivalCrowded

  The three-hundred-kilometre loop of the Aosta Valley starts and finishes here in mid-September, and for a week the high refuges are full of runners rather than walkers. Source ↗

Still on: Tour du Mont Blanc season (20 Jun – 20 Sep (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Season

  Between seasons

  1 Oct – 25 NovOff-season shutdownClosures

  Lifts, most hotels and half the restaurants shut for autumn, and May is the same story at the other end. Come then only if an empty valley is the point.

Shoulder season — school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Season

  Ski season

  28 Nov – 20 Apr · usually

  Lifts run from the end of November to around the middle of April, conditions permitting, and the Vallee Blanche off the Skyway is the thing people come for rather than the piste map. Source ↗

Still on: Between seasons (1 Oct – 25 Nov)

Peak crowds — Christmas to Epiphany, Christmas holidays in Italy

• Holiday

  Christmas to Epiphany

  22 Dec – 7 JanChristmas & New YearCrowdedBook early

  Milan and Turin arrive for the fortnight, the via Roma is shoulder to shoulder after four and prices roughly double. January afterwards is the quiet, cold, cheap month. Source ↗

Still on: Ski season (28 Nov – 20 Apr (usually))