SeasonMap

Ski season, month by month around the world

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151 destinations on SeasonMap, ranked within each month by the comfort score — because the point is not only where the season is on, but whether the weather is worth the trip while it is.

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Ski season in January

  1. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalySkiing on Etna · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Nicolosi and Piano Provenzana run a handful of lifts on the volcano in a normal winter, an hour above a coast where the oranges are being picked.78climate
  2. 🇲🇦 Imlil, MoroccoWinter on Toubkal · 1 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Snow and ice above three thousand metres: crampons, an axe and someone who knows the avalanche history, or a ski-touring trip instead.76climate
  3. 🇱🇧 Beirut, LebanonSki season above the city · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Faraya and the Cedars are inside two hours of the corniche, which is where the old line about skiing and swimming in one day comes from.75climate
  4. 🇫🇷 Nice, FranceSki day trips open · 5 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Isola 2000 and Auron are about ninety minutes from the seafront and run from December to early April.73climate
  5. 🇮🇳 Manali, IndiaSnow season at Solang · 20 Dec – 28 FebSolang and the slopes above town are where the plains come to see snow, which is a different activity from skiing.73climate
  6. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainSierra Nevada ski season · 28 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Europe's southernmost resort is forty minutes up the road and runs from late November into April, later than the Alps in a good year because of the altitude.73climate
  7. 🇮🇹 Taormina, ItalySnow on Etna · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The volcano usually holds snow from midwinter, which is the view Taormina is built around, and the two small lift areas at Nicolosi and Linguaglossa run when it does.72climate
  8. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Jan (usually)About 38 cm of snow falls in the month.72climate
  9. 🇧🇹 Punakha, BhutanSnow season · 1–28 Jan (usually)About 40 cm of snow falls in the month.71climate
  10. 🇧🇹 Thimphu, BhutanSnow season · 1–28 Jan (usually)About 32 cm of snow falls in the month.68climate
  11. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaCaucasus ski season · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Gudauri is two hours up the military highway and runs on cheap lift passes and a lot of off-piste.66climate
  12. 🇮🇷 Tehran, IranSki season above the city · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Dizin, Shemshak and the Tochal gondola from the top of the metro line: real snow, an hour from the centre, and a season that usually runs from December into April.64climate
  13. 🇦🇷 El Chaltén, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Jan (usually)About 71 cm of snow falls in the month.64climate
  14. 🇺🇸 Denver, United StatesMountain ski season · 25 Oct – 20 Apr (usually)Denver is the airport for the I-70 resorts, which turn lifts from late October to April.63climate
  15. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalySki season in the valleys · 5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Sestriere and the rest of the Milky Way are ninety minutes up the valley, which is why Turin fills with ski traffic at weekends and empties into the mountains at Christmas and Carnival.62climate
  16. 🇺🇸 Boulder, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 Jan (usually)About 31 cm of snow falls in the month.62climate
  17. 🇺🇸 Reno, United StatesTahoe ski season · 20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Reno is the cheap bed for the north Tahoe resorts, forty-five minutes up the hill at Mount Rose and an hour to the lake.62climate
  18. 🇹🇷 Trabzon, TurkeyZigana ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The pass an hour inland holds snow through the winter and runs a small lift system, which is more a local weekend thing than a resort.61climate
  19. 🇹🇷 Rize, TurkeySnow season · 1–28 Jan (usually)About 53 cm of snow falls in the month.61climate
  20. 🇹🇷 Bursa, TurkeyUludağ ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The lifts usually run from the middle of December to the end of March, with January and February the dependable months.60climate
  21. 🇲🇦 Oukaïmeden, MoroccoAtlas ski season · 1 Jan – 10 Mar (usually)Africa's highest lift runs when there is cover, and January into February is when there usually is.58climate
  22. 🇺🇿 Tashkent, UzbekistanChimgan ski season · 15 Dec – 20 Mar (usually)Chimgan and Amirsoy are an hour and a half up the road, which makes this one of the few capitals you can ski from and be back for dinner.58climate
  23. 🇮🇹 Bolzano, ItalyDolomite ski season · 5 Dec – 6 Apr (usually)The city itself rarely holds snow, but Obereggen, Carezza and the Alpe di Siusi are half an hour up the road and run from early December to just after Easter.58climate
  24. 🇬🇪 Kutaisi, GeorgiaSnow season · 1–28 Jan (usually)About 44 cm of snow falls in the month.58climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesSki season · 25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)The ski area is twenty-five minutes up the mountain from the plaza and tops out above 3,600 metres, which is why a town at this latitude has a season at all.57climate

…and 201 more in January.

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Ski season in February

  1. 🇱🇧 Beirut, LebanonSki season above the city · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Faraya and the Cedars are inside two hours of the corniche, which is where the old line about skiing and swimming in one day comes from.81climate
  2. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainSierra Nevada ski season · 28 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Europe's southernmost resort is forty minutes up the road and runs from late November into April, later than the Alps in a good year because of the altitude.80climate
  3. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalySkiing on Etna · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Nicolosi and Piano Provenzana run a handful of lifts on the volcano in a normal winter, an hour above a coast where the oranges are being picked.80climate
  4. 🇲🇦 Imlil, MoroccoWinter on Toubkal · 1 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Snow and ice above three thousand metres: crampons, an axe and someone who knows the avalanche history, or a ski-touring trip instead.77climate
  5. 🇫🇷 Nice, FranceSki day trips open · 5 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Isola 2000 and Auron are about ninety minutes from the seafront and run from December to early April.76climate
  6. 🇮🇹 Taormina, ItalySnow on Etna · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The volcano usually holds snow from midwinter, which is the view Taormina is built around, and the two small lift areas at Nicolosi and Linguaglossa run when it does.75climate
  7. 🇮🇳 Manali, IndiaSnow season at Solang · 20 Dec – 28 FebSolang and the slopes above town are where the plains come to see snow, which is a different activity from skiing.73climate
  8. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaCaucasus ski season · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Gudauri is two hours up the military highway and runs on cheap lift passes and a lot of off-piste.70climate
  9. 🇮🇷 Tehran, IranSki season above the city · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Dizin, Shemshak and the Tochal gondola from the top of the metro line: real snow, an hour from the centre, and a season that usually runs from December into April.70climate
  10. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Feb (usually)About 34 cm of snow falls in the month.70climate
  11. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalySki season in the valleys · 5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Sestriere and the rest of the Milky Way are ninety minutes up the valley, which is why Turin fills with ski traffic at weekends and empties into the mountains at Christmas and Carnival.68climate
  12. 🇦🇷 El Chaltén, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Feb (usually)About 56 cm of snow falls in the month.68climate
  13. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesSki season · 25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)The ski area is twenty-five minutes up the mountain from the plaza and tops out above 3,600 metres, which is why a town at this latitude has a season at all.67climate
  14. 🇮🇹 Bolzano, ItalyDolomite ski season · 5 Dec – 6 Apr (usually)The city itself rarely holds snow, but Obereggen, Carezza and the Alpe di Siusi are half an hour up the road and run from early December to just after Easter.67climate
  15. 🇹🇷 Trabzon, TurkeyZigana ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The pass an hour inland holds snow through the winter and runs a small lift system, which is more a local weekend thing than a resort.67climate
  16. 🇹🇷 Bursa, TurkeyUludağ ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The lifts usually run from the middle of December to the end of March, with January and February the dependable months.67climate
  17. 🇺🇸 Reno, United StatesTahoe ski season · 20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Reno is the cheap bed for the north Tahoe resorts, forty-five minutes up the hill at Mount Rose and an hour to the lake.67climate
  18. 🇧🇹 Punakha, BhutanSnow season · 1–28 Feb (usually)About 31 cm of snow falls in the month.67climate
  19. 🇹🇷 Rize, TurkeySnow season · 1–28 Feb (usually)About 39 cm of snow falls in the month.67climate
  20. 🇧🇹 Thimphu, BhutanSnow season · 1–28 Feb (usually)About 37 cm of snow falls in the month.66climate
  21. 🇺🇸 Denver, United StatesMountain ski season · 25 Oct – 20 Apr (usually)Denver is the airport for the I-70 resorts, which turn lifts from late October to April.66climate
  22. 🇺🇸 Boulder, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 Feb (usually)About 33 cm of snow falls in the month.66climate
  23. 🇺🇿 Tashkent, UzbekistanChimgan ski season · 15 Dec – 20 Mar (usually)Chimgan and Amirsoy are an hour and a half up the road, which makes this one of the few capitals you can ski from and be back for dinner.65climate
  24. 🇧🇬 Sofia, BulgariaVitosha ski season · 20 Dec – 25 Mar (usually)Aleko, on the mountain directly above the city, is reachable by public bus in under an hour — a small, temperamental area that opens late and shuts early, but no other European capital has one at all.64climate
  25. Pristina, KosovoBrezovica ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The Sharr mountain resort is about ninety minutes south and it is where the city goes at the weekend once there is a base.64climate

…and 190 more in February.

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Ski season in March

  1. 🇱🇧 Beirut, LebanonSki season above the city · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Faraya and the Cedars are inside two hours of the corniche, which is where the old line about skiing and swimming in one day comes from.86climate
  2. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalySkiing on Etna · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Nicolosi and Piano Provenzana run a handful of lifts on the volcano in a normal winter, an hour above a coast where the oranges are being picked.86climate
  3. 🇮🇷 Tehran, IranSki season above the city · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Dizin, Shemshak and the Tochal gondola from the top of the metro line: real snow, an hour from the centre, and a season that usually runs from December into April.81climate
  4. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainSierra Nevada ski season · 28 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Europe's southernmost resort is forty minutes up the road and runs from late November into April, later than the Alps in a good year because of the altitude.81climate
  5. 🇲🇦 Imlil, MoroccoWinter on Toubkal · 1 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Snow and ice above three thousand metres: crampons, an axe and someone who knows the avalanche history, or a ski-touring trip instead.81climate
  6. 🇫🇷 Nice, FranceSki day trips open · 5 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Isola 2000 and Auron are about ninety minutes from the seafront and run from December to early April.80climate
  7. 🇮🇹 Taormina, ItalySnow on Etna · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The volcano usually holds snow from midwinter, which is the view Taormina is built around, and the two small lift areas at Nicolosi and Linguaglossa run when it does.78climate
  8. 🇺🇿 Tashkent, UzbekistanChimgan ski season · 15 Dec – 20 Mar (usually)Chimgan and Amirsoy are an hour and a half up the road, which makes this one of the few capitals you can ski from and be back for dinner.77climate
  9. 🇮🇹 Bolzano, ItalyDolomite ski season · 5 Dec – 6 Apr (usually)The city itself rarely holds snow, but Obereggen, Carezza and the Alpe di Siusi are half an hour up the road and run from early December to just after Easter.76climate
  10. 🇺🇸 Denver, United StatesMountain ski season · 25 Oct – 20 Apr (usually)Denver is the airport for the I-70 resorts, which turn lifts from late October to April.75climate
  11. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesSki season · 25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)The ski area is twenty-five minutes up the mountain from the plaza and tops out above 3,600 metres, which is why a town at this latitude has a season at all.75climate
  12. 🇺🇸 Reno, United StatesTahoe ski season · 20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Reno is the cheap bed for the north Tahoe resorts, forty-five minutes up the hill at Mount Rose and an hour to the lake.75climate
  13. 🇰🇷 Seoul, South KoreaSki season an hour out · 10 Dec – 5 Mar (usually)The Gangwon resorts run on cold, dry, machine-heavy snow from December, and the day trips from Seoul are the reason people ski here at all.74climate
  14. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalySki season in the valleys · 5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Sestriere and the rest of the Milky Way are ninety minutes up the valley, which is why Turin fills with ski traffic at weekends and empties into the mountains at Christmas and Carnival.74climate
  15. 🇺🇸 Boulder, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 Mar (usually)About 40 cm of snow falls in the month.74climate
  16. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaCaucasus ski season · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Gudauri is two hours up the military highway and runs on cheap lift passes and a lot of off-piste.73climate
  17. 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, United StatesSki season · 20 Nov – 20 Apr (usually)Four resorts sit half an hour from downtown up the Cottonwood canyons, open from late November into April.72climate
  18. 🇹🇷 Bursa, TurkeyUludağ ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The lifts usually run from the middle of December to the end of March, with January and February the dependable months.72climate
  19. 🇦🇲 Yerevan, ArmeniaTsaghkadzor ski season · 20 Dec – 20 Mar (usually)The resort forty minutes north runs a gondola and a handful of pistes, and it is where the city goes at winter weekends.71climate
  20. 🇧🇬 Sofia, BulgariaVitosha ski season · 20 Dec – 25 Mar (usually)Aleko, on the mountain directly above the city, is reachable by public bus in under an hour — a small, temperamental area that opens late and shuts early, but no other European capital has one at all.70climate
  21. 🇧🇦 Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaJahorina and Bjelašnica season · 10 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The 1984 Olympic mountains are half an hour out and lift passes cost a fraction of the Alps.70climate
  22. 🇦🇹 Salzburg, AustriaSnow season · 1–28 Mar (usually)About 34 cm of snow falls in the month.69climate
  23. Pristina, KosovoBrezovica ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The Sharr mountain resort is about ninety minutes south and it is where the city goes at the weekend once there is a base.69climate
  24. 🇦🇹 Innsbruck, AustriaSki season · 5 Dec – 15 Apr (usually)Nine areas on one pass and a cable car from the middle of town up to the Nordkette, so the skiing starts at the end of a tram line rather than a transfer.68climate
  25. 🇰🇬 Bishkek, KyrgyzstanSki season above the city · 20 Dec – 20 Mar (usually)The bases in the Chunkurchak valley are close enough to ski on a day trip from a capital city, which is not a common arrangement.68climate

…and 167 more in March.

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Ski season in April

  1. 🇮🇷 Tehran, IranSki season above the city · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Dizin, Shemshak and the Tochal gondola from the top of the metro line: real snow, an hour from the centre, and a season that usually runs from December into April.93climate
  2. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainSierra Nevada ski season · 28 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Europe's southernmost resort is forty minutes up the road and runs from late November into April, later than the Alps in a good year because of the altitude.89climate
  3. 🇫🇷 Nice, FranceSki day trips open · 5 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Isola 2000 and Auron are about ninety minutes from the seafront and run from December to early April.86climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Reno, United StatesTahoe ski season · 20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Reno is the cheap bed for the north Tahoe resorts, forty-five minutes up the hill at Mount Rose and an hour to the lake.86climate
  5. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalySki season in the valleys · 5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Sestriere and the rest of the Milky Way are ninety minutes up the valley, which is why Turin fills with ski traffic at weekends and empties into the mountains at Christmas and Carnival.85climate
  6. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaCaucasus ski season · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Gudauri is two hours up the military highway and runs on cheap lift passes and a lot of off-piste.84climate
  7. 🇮🇹 Bolzano, ItalyDolomite ski season · 5 Dec – 6 Apr (usually)The city itself rarely holds snow, but Obereggen, Carezza and the Alpe di Siusi are half an hour up the road and run from early December to just after Easter.84climate
  8. 🇺🇸 Denver, United StatesMountain ski season · 25 Oct – 20 Apr (usually)Denver is the airport for the I-70 resorts, which turn lifts from late October to April.82climate
  9. 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, United StatesSki season · 20 Nov – 20 Apr (usually)Four resorts sit half an hour from downtown up the Cottonwood canyons, open from late November into April.82climate
  10. 🇷🇺 Sochi, RussiaSki season up the valley · 15 Dec – 30 Apr (usually)The resorts above Krasnaya Polyana are forty minutes inland and turn their lifts from the second half of December.82climate
  11. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesSki season · 25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)The ski area is twenty-five minutes up the mountain from the plaza and tops out above 3,600 metres, which is why a town at this latitude has a season at all.81climate
  12. 🇺🇸 Boulder, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 Apr (usually)About 32 cm of snow falls in the month.80climate
  13. 🇺🇸 Flagstaff, United StatesArizona Snowbowl season · 15 Nov – 10 Apr (usually)Skiing above 9,000 feet an hour and a half from Phoenix, opening when the snowmaking allows rather than on a fixed date.78climate
  14. 🇨🇦 Kelowna, CanadaBig White ski season · 26 Nov – 4 Apr (usually)An hour up the hill from the airport, opening around American Thanksgiving and running to early April, with the snow-ghost trees that the place is known for.78climate
  15. 🇯🇵 Nagano, JapanHakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts · 10 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Nagano city is the train station the ski traffic passes through, and from December the buses west to Hakuba and east to Shiga Kogen run full.78climate
  16. 🇦🇹 Innsbruck, AustriaSki season · 5 Dec – 15 Apr (usually)Nine areas on one pass and a cable car from the middle of town up to the Nordkette, so the skiing starts at the end of a tram line rather than a transfer.77climate
  17. 🇫🇷 Annecy, FranceSki season in the Aravis · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)La Clusaz, Le Grand-Bornand and the Semnoz are inside an hour, so from mid-December the town carries Saturday transfer traffic it was not built for.77climate
  18. Vaduz, LiechtensteinMalbun ski season · 15 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)The country's only ski area sits twenty minutes above the capital at 1,600 metres: two dozen kilometres of piste, a nursery slope reputation, and no queues worth the name.77climate
  19. 🇦🇹 Hallstatt, AustriaSnow season · 1–28 Apr (usually)About 42 cm of snow falls in the month.76climate
  20. 🇰🇿 Almaty, KazakhstanSki season above the city · 1 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)The lifts at Shymbulak start a half-hour bus ride from the centre, so skiing here needs no transfer and no resort week.75climate
  21. 🇺🇸 Taos, United StatesSki season · 26 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)Taos Ski Valley opens around Thanksgiving and runs to early April, steep enough that it refused snowboarders until 2008.75climate
  22. 🇺🇸 Bend, United StatesMt Bachelor ski season · 25 Nov – 15 May (usually)The mountain is half an hour from town and usually turns lifts from late November into May, one of the longer seasons in the country.75climate
  23. 🇯🇵 Sapporo, JapanSki season in the mountains · 1 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Niseko, Kiroro and Rusutsu are one to two hours out and run on the driest powder in the country; the city itself is the cheap bed at the end of the bus route.74climate
  24. 🇰🇬 Cholpon-Ata, KyrgyzstanSnow season · 1–28 Apr (usually)About 49 cm of snow falls in the month.74climate
  25. 🇨🇦 Vancouver, CanadaNorth Shore ski season · 5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Grouse, Cypress and Seymour are twenty to forty minutes from downtown and open when the freezing level drops, usually in December.73climate

…and 117 more in April.

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Ski season in May

  1. 🇺🇸 Bend, United StatesMt Bachelor ski season · 25 Nov – 15 May (usually)The mountain is half an hour from town and usually turns lifts from late November into May, one of the longer seasons in the country.83climate
  2. 🇨🇦 Calgary, CanadaRockies ski season · 10 Nov – 15 May (usually)Calgary is the airport for Banff, Lake Louise and Sunshine, ninety minutes west, and their lifts run from mid-November into May.80climate
  3. 🇳🇴 Ålesund, NorwaySunnmore Alps ski touring · 15 Feb – 15 May (usually)The peaks behind town are skied from the water up, which is why people fly here with skins rather than lift passes.79climate
  4. 🇰🇬 Cholpon-Ata, KyrgyzstanSnow season · 1–28 May (usually)About 45 cm of snow falls in the month.79climate
  5. 🇳🇴 Geiranger, NorwaySnow season · 1–28 May (usually)About 32 cm of snow falls in the month.76climate
  6. 🇯🇵 Nozawa Onsen, JapanSki season · 28 Nov – 5 May (usually)One long mountain above a working hot-spring village, usually open from the end of November to early May.72climate
  7. 🇯🇵 Niseko, JapanSki season · 28 Nov – 5 May (usually)Niseko United usually opens at the end of November and Grand Hirafu runs into early May; the other three mountains close through April.71climate
  8. 🇨🇦 Whistler, CanadaSki season · 25 Nov – 18 May (usually)Two mountains and the longest season in North America: Whistler runs to late April, Blackcomb into May, and the base can be raining while the alpine is fine.70climate
  9. 🇯🇵 Furano, JapanSki season · 28 Nov – 5 May (usually)Furano opens in the last days of November and runs to early May.69climate
  10. 🇯🇵 Hakuba, JapanSki season · 28 Nov – 6 May (usually)Ten resorts on one pass down a single valley.68climate
  11. 🇬🇪 Mestia, GeorgiaSnow season · 1–28 May (usually)About 36 cm of snow falls in the month.68climate
  12. 🇨🇦 Jasper, CanadaMarmot Basin ski season · 15 Nov – 1 May (usually)Marmot usually opens in the third week of November and runs into April or early May.67climate
  13. 🇺🇸 Mammoth Lakes, United StatesMammoth ski season · 5 Nov – 31 May (usually)Mammoth holds snow longer than anywhere else in California and regularly spins lifts into late May, sometimes past it.66climate
  14. 🇳🇴 Hemsedal, NorwaySki season · 20 Nov – 3 May (usually)Lifts run from about the end of November to the start of May, held together by snowmaking at the bottom and height at the top.66climate
  15. 🇸🇪 Åre, SwedenSki season · 5 Dec – 3 May (usually)Sweden's biggest ski area opens in the first half of December and the lifts usually run to the start of May.66climate
  16. 🇷🇺 Sheregesh, RussiaSki season · 15 Nov – 5 May (usually)Siberia's busiest ski hill, with a snowpack that can reach several metres and a season running from November well into spring.66climate
  17. 🇨🇦 Banff, CanadaSki season · 5 Nov – 18 May (usually)Norquay and Lake Louise open in early November and Sunshine Village holds on into the third week of May, one of the longest seasons in North America.65climate
  18. 🇳🇵 Manang, NepalSnow season · 1–28 May (usually)About 41 cm of snow falls in the month.65climate
  19. 🇫🇮 Levi, FinlandSki season · 2 Oct – 2 May (usually)One of the longest seasons anywhere: stored snow opens a run in early October and the lifts go to the start of May.65climate
  20. 🇨🇦 Lake Louise, CanadaSki season · 5 Nov – 5 May (usually)One of the first big Canadian hills to open, usually in the first week of November, and it runs to the start of May.64climate
  21. 🇫🇮 Ruka, FinlandSki season · 2 Oct – 2 May (usually)Stored snow opens a run in the first days of October and the lifts run to the start of May — seven months, and the longest season in the country.64climate
  22. 🇵🇰 Skardu, PakistanSnow season · 1–28 May (usually)About 41 cm of snow falls in the month.64climate
  23. 🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, RussiaSpring ski touring season · 1 Mar – 31 May (usually)March to May is the settled window for skiing the volcanoes, sometimes down to the sea.64climate
  24. 🇺🇸 Breckenridge, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 May (usually)About 42 cm of snow falls in the month.63climate
  25. 🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanyGlacier skiing after the thaw · 15 Apr – 10 May (usually)When the valley runs close, the Zugspitze glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning into May.63climate

…and 33 more in May.

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Ski season in June

  1. 🇦🇺 Melbourne, AustraliaAlpine ski season opens · 6–8 Jun (usually)Buller, Hotham and Falls Creek open on the King's Birthday long weekend, two to five hours from the city, on whatever combination of snowfall and snowmaking they have.74climate
  2. 🇨🇭 Zermatt, SwitzerlandSummer glacier skiing · 1 Jun – 31 Oct (usually)The glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning through the summer, mornings only, which is where the national teams train.68climate
  3. 🇱🇸 Butha-Buthe, LesothoAfriski's ski season · 1 Jun – 5 Sep (usually)One run, one lift and a lot of snowmaking at 3,000 m on the Oxbow road, open roughly June to early September.67climate
  4. 🇳🇿 Christchurch, New ZealandCanterbury ski season · 5 Jun – 10 Oct (usually)Mt Hutt is an hour and a half away and usually opens first in the country and closes last; the club fields behind it run on gravel roads and rope tows, and the city drives up for the day.66climate
  5. 🇨🇱 Santiago, ChileAndes resorts open · 10–25 Jun (usually)Valle Nevado, El Colorado and Farellones aim to open in the middle of June, an hour above the city, and usually run to early October.66climate
  6. 🇳🇿 Queenstown, New ZealandSki fields open · 5–20 Jun (usually)Coronet Peak and the Remarkables open in the second week of June, with a snow-factory head start on Coronet from late May.49climate
  7. 🇳🇿 Tongariro, New ZealandRuapehu ski season · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)Whakapapa and Tūroa sit on an active volcano and run from mid-winter into spring, snow allowing.49climate
  8. 🇳🇿 Lake Tekapo, New ZealandRoundhill ski season · 25 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The local field is half an hour up the road, family-run, and home to a rope tow once billed as the longest in the world.48climate
  9. 🇳🇿 Wānaka, New ZealandSki season · 15 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Cardrona and Treble Cone run from about mid-June until the snow gives out in early October, both up long gravel access roads that want chains.47climate
  10. 🇨🇱 Puerto Varas, ChileOsorno ski season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The small centre on the volcano's flank runs two lifts when the base holds, an hour from town, with the lake underneath you on a clear day.46climate
  11. 🇦🇷 Ushuaia, ArgentinaCerro Castor ski season · 25 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end.44climate
  12. 🇦🇺 Perisher Valley, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Australia's biggest lift network runs from the June long weekend to the October long weekend.43climate
  13. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaCerro Catedral opens · 20 Jun – 5 Jul (usually)The biggest ski area in South America aims to open in the last days of June, snow permitting, and runs to early October.42climate
  14. 🇦🇷 San Martín de los Andes, ArgentinaChapelco ski season · 25 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The hill is twenty minutes out of town and usually turns the lifts on at the start of July, holding until late September.39climate
  15. 🇳🇿 Aoraki Mount Cook, New ZealandSnow season · 1–28 Jun (usually)About 45 cm of snow falls in the month.39climate
  16. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Jun (usually)About 74 cm of snow falls in the month.38climate
  17. 🇨🇱 Farellones, ChileSki season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)Farellones and El Colorado share one lift system and usually open in the second half of June — 19 June in 2026 — running into late September depending on how the storms come in.37climate
  18. 🇦🇺 Falls Creek, AustraliaLifts turning · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The resort runs from the June long weekend to early October on Victoria's best snowmaking rather than on faith in the natural cover.36climate
  19. 🇦🇺 Thredbo, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the June long weekend to the October long weekend, held up by snowmaking on the lower runs.35climate
  20. 🇨🇱 Pucón, ChileSkiing on the volcano · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The small centre on the volcano's northern flank runs from about mid-June to mid-October, snow and alert level permitting.35climate
  21. 🇦🇷 El Chaltén, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Jun (usually)About 135 cm of snow falls in the month.34climate
  22. 🇦🇷 Las Leñas, ArgentinaSki season · 20 Jun – 1 Oct (usually)The resort usually opens in the second half of June and runs to late September.33climate
  23. 🇦🇺 Mount Buller, AustraliaWinter season · 8 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the King's Birthday long weekend to the October school holidays, held together by snowmaking.33climate
  24. 🇨🇱 Portillo, ChileSki season · 20 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)A single hotel at 2,880 metres on a lake, open from late June to the start of October and shut the rest of the year.33climate
  25. 🇨🇱 Valle Nevado, ChileValle Nevado opens · 10 Jun – 1 Jul (usually)The resort usually turns the lifts on in the third week of June, sometimes on partial terrain while it waits for a storm.29climate

…and 1 more in June.

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Ski season in July

  1. 🇨🇭 Zermatt, SwitzerlandSummer glacier skiing · 1 Jun – 31 Oct (usually)The glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning through the summer, mornings only, which is where the national teams train.74climate
  2. 🇨🇱 Santiago, ChileSki season · 14 Jun – 4 Oct (usually)Lifts an hour from the centre, best in August, on a road of forty switchbacks that closes for snow and requires chains more often than visitors expect.70climate
  3. 🇱🇸 Butha-Buthe, LesothoAfriski's ski season · 1 Jun – 5 Sep (usually)One run, one lift and a lot of snowmaking at 3,000 m on the Oxbow road, open roughly June to early September.68climate
  4. 🇳🇿 Christchurch, New ZealandCanterbury ski season · 5 Jun – 10 Oct (usually)Mt Hutt is an hour and a half away and usually opens first in the country and closes last; the club fields behind it run on gravel roads and rope tows, and the city drives up for the day.63climate
  5. 🇨🇱 Puerto Varas, ChileOsorno ski season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The small centre on the volcano's flank runs two lifts when the base holds, an hour from town, with the lake underneath you on a clear day.50climate
  6. 🇳🇿 Queenstown, New ZealandSki season · 13 Jun – 11 Oct (usually)Four fields within an hour, a base that peaks in August, and lift queues that follow the New Zealand and Australian school holidays rather than the snow.46climate
  7. 🇳🇿 Lake Tekapo, New ZealandRoundhill ski season · 25 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The local field is half an hour up the road, family-run, and home to a rope tow once billed as the longest in the world.44climate
  8. 🇦🇷 Ushuaia, ArgentinaCerro Castor ski season · 25 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end.43climate
  9. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaCerro Catedral opens · 20 Jun – 5 Jul (usually)The biggest ski area in South America aims to open in the last days of June, snow permitting, and runs to early October.43climate
  10. 🇳🇿 Tongariro, New ZealandRuapehu ski season · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)Whakapapa and Tūroa sit on an active volcano and run from mid-winter into spring, snow allowing.42climate
  11. 🇦🇺 Perisher Valley, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Australia's biggest lift network runs from the June long weekend to the October long weekend.41climate
  12. 🇳🇿 Wānaka, New ZealandSki season · 15 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Cardrona and Treble Cone run from about mid-June until the snow gives out in early October, both up long gravel access roads that want chains.41climate
  13. 🇦🇷 San Martín de los Andes, ArgentinaChapelco ski season · 25 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The hill is twenty minutes out of town and usually turns the lifts on at the start of July, holding until late September.41climate
  14. 🇨🇱 Farellones, ChileSki season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)Farellones and El Colorado share one lift system and usually open in the second half of June — 19 June in 2026 — running into late September depending on how the storms come in.39climate
  15. 🇦🇷 Las Leñas, ArgentinaSki season · 20 Jun – 1 Oct (usually)The resort usually opens in the second half of June and runs to late September.38climate
  16. 🇨🇱 Pucón, ChileSkiing on the volcano · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The small centre on the volcano's northern flank runs from about mid-June to mid-October, snow and alert level permitting.38climate
  17. 🇨🇱 Portillo, ChileSki season · 20 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)A single hotel at 2,880 metres on a lake, open from late June to the start of October and shut the rest of the year.38climate
  18. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Jul (usually)About 88 cm of snow falls in the month.36climate
  19. 🇦🇺 Falls Creek, AustraliaLifts turning · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The resort runs from the June long weekend to early October on Victoria's best snowmaking rather than on faith in the natural cover.35climate
  20. 🇨🇱 Valle Nevado, ChileValle Nevado opens · 10 Jun – 1 Jul (usually)The resort usually turns the lifts on in the third week of June, sometimes on partial terrain while it waits for a storm.35climate
  21. 🇳🇿 Aoraki Mount Cook, New ZealandSnow season · 1–28 Jul (usually)About 90 cm of snow falls in the month.33climate
  22. 🇦🇺 Thredbo, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the June long weekend to the October long weekend, held up by snowmaking on the lower runs.32climate
  23. 🇦🇺 Mount Buller, AustraliaWinter season · 8 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the King's Birthday long weekend to the October school holidays, held together by snowmaking.31climate
  24. 🇦🇷 El Chaltén, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Jul (usually)About 164 cm of snow falls in the month.31climate
  25. 🇨🇱 Torres del Paine, ChileSnow season · 1–28 Jul (usually)About 138 cm of snow falls in the month.26climate

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Ski season in August

  1. 🇨🇱 Santiago, ChileSki season · 14 Jun – 4 Oct (usually)Lifts an hour from the centre, best in August, on a road of forty switchbacks that closes for snow and requires chains more often than visitors expect.74climate
  2. 🇱🇸 Butha-Buthe, LesothoAfriski's ski season · 1 Jun – 5 Sep (usually)One run, one lift and a lot of snowmaking at 3,000 m on the Oxbow road, open roughly June to early September.72climate
  3. 🇨🇭 Zermatt, SwitzerlandSummer glacier skiing · 1 Jun – 31 Oct (usually)The glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning through the summer, mornings only, which is where the national teams train.71climate
  4. 🇳🇿 Christchurch, New ZealandCanterbury ski season · 5 Jun – 10 Oct (usually)Mt Hutt is an hour and a half away and usually opens first in the country and closes last; the club fields behind it run on gravel roads and rope tows, and the city drives up for the day.71climate
  5. 🇳🇿 Queenstown, New ZealandSki season · 13 Jun – 11 Oct (usually)Four fields within an hour, a base that peaks in August, and lift queues that follow the New Zealand and Australian school holidays rather than the snow.54climate
  6. 🇨🇱 Puerto Varas, ChileOsorno ski season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The small centre on the volcano's flank runs two lifts when the base holds, an hour from town, with the lake underneath you on a clear day.53climate
  7. 🇳🇿 Lake Tekapo, New ZealandRoundhill ski season · 25 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The local field is half an hour up the road, family-run, and home to a rope tow once billed as the longest in the world.53climate
  8. 🇳🇿 Wānaka, New ZealandSki season · 15 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Cardrona and Treble Cone run from about mid-June until the snow gives out in early October, both up long gravel access roads that want chains.51climate
  9. 🇦🇷 Ushuaia, ArgentinaCerro Castor ski season · 25 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end.50climate
  10. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaSki season · 29 Jun – 4 Oct (usually)Catedral runs from late June to early October, with the most reliable cover in August and the Argentine winter school holidays filling July from end to end.50climate
  11. 🇦🇷 San Martín de los Andes, ArgentinaChapelco ski season · 25 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The hill is twenty minutes out of town and usually turns the lifts on at the start of July, holding until late September.47climate
  12. 🇳🇿 Tongariro, New ZealandRuapehu ski season · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)Whakapapa and Tūroa sit on an active volcano and run from mid-winter into spring, snow allowing.46climate
  13. 🇨🇱 Farellones, ChileSki season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)Farellones and El Colorado share one lift system and usually open in the second half of June — 19 June in 2026 — running into late September depending on how the storms come in.45climate
  14. 🇦🇺 Perisher Valley, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Australia's biggest lift network runs from the June long weekend to the October long weekend.44climate
  15. 🇨🇱 Pucón, ChileSkiing on the volcano · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The small centre on the volcano's northern flank runs from about mid-June to mid-October, snow and alert level permitting.42climate
  16. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Aug (usually)About 95 cm of snow falls in the month.42climate
  17. 🇦🇷 Las Leñas, ArgentinaSki season · 20 Jun – 1 Oct (usually)The resort usually opens in the second half of June and runs to late September.41climate
  18. 🇨🇱 Portillo, ChileSki season · 20 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)A single hotel at 2,880 metres on a lake, open from late June to the start of October and shut the rest of the year.40climate
  19. 🇳🇿 Aoraki Mount Cook, New ZealandSnow season · 1–28 Aug (usually)About 68 cm of snow falls in the month.40climate
  20. 🇦🇺 Falls Creek, AustraliaLifts turning · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The resort runs from the June long weekend to early October on Victoria's best snowmaking rather than on faith in the natural cover.38climate
  21. 🇦🇺 Thredbo, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the June long weekend to the October long weekend, held up by snowmaking on the lower runs.37climate
  22. 🇦🇷 El Chaltén, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Aug (usually)About 164 cm of snow falls in the month.37climate
  23. 🇨🇱 Valle Nevado, ChileSki season · 19 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Above the treeline at 3,000 metres with nothing around it but the Andes, running from about the third week of June to early October.37climate
  24. 🇦🇺 Mount Buller, AustraliaWinter season · 8 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the King's Birthday long weekend to the October school holidays, held together by snowmaking.35climate
  25. 🇨🇱 Torres del Paine, ChileSnow season · 1–28 Aug (usually)About 137 cm of snow falls in the month.29climate

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Ski season in September

  1. 🇨🇱 Santiago, ChileSki season · 14 Jun – 4 Oct (usually)Lifts an hour from the centre, best in August, on a road of forty switchbacks that closes for snow and requires chains more often than visitors expect.83climate
  2. 🇰🇬 Cholpon-Ata, KyrgyzstanSnow season · 1–28 Sep (usually)About 44 cm of snow falls in the month.81climate
  3. 🇳🇿 Christchurch, New ZealandCanterbury ski season · 5 Jun – 10 Oct (usually)Mt Hutt is an hour and a half away and usually opens first in the country and closes last; the club fields behind it run on gravel roads and rope tows, and the city drives up for the day.77climate
  4. 🇱🇸 Butha-Buthe, LesothoAfriski's ski season · 1 Jun – 5 Sep (usually)One run, one lift and a lot of snowmaking at 3,000 m on the Oxbow road, open roughly June to early September.76climate
  5. 🇦🇹 Sölden, AustriaGlacier skiing opens · 15 Sep – 15 Nov (usually)The Rettenbach and Tiefenbach glaciers turn lifts from about mid-September, which is why the national teams train here before anyone else has snow.68climate
  6. 🇨🇭 Zermatt, SwitzerlandSummer glacier skiing · 1 Jun – 31 Oct (usually)The glacier keeps a handful of lifts turning through the summer, mornings only, which is where the national teams train.66climate
  7. 🇨🇱 Puerto Varas, ChileOsorno ski season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The small centre on the volcano's flank runs two lifts when the base holds, an hour from town, with the lake underneath you on a clear day.64climate
  8. 🇮🇸 Akureyri, IcelandSnow season · 1–28 Sep (usually)About 32 cm of snow falls in the month.64climate
  9. 🇳🇿 Lake Tekapo, New ZealandRoundhill ski season · 25 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)The local field is half an hour up the road, family-run, and home to a rope tow once billed as the longest in the world.61climate
  10. 🇦🇷 Ushuaia, ArgentinaCerro Castor ski season · 25 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end.60climate
  11. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaSki season · 29 Jun – 4 Oct (usually)Catedral runs from late June to early October, with the most reliable cover in August and the Argentine winter school holidays filling July from end to end.59climate
  12. 🇦🇷 San Martín de los Andes, ArgentinaChapelco ski season · 25 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)The hill is twenty minutes out of town and usually turns the lifts on at the start of July, holding until late September.57climate
  13. 🇳🇿 Wānaka, New ZealandSki season · 15 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Cardrona and Treble Cone run from about mid-June until the snow gives out in early October, both up long gravel access roads that want chains.55climate
  14. 🇳🇿 Queenstown, New ZealandSki season · 13 Jun – 11 Oct (usually)Four fields within an hour, a base that peaks in August, and lift queues that follow the New Zealand and Australian school holidays rather than the snow.53climate
  15. 🇦🇺 Perisher Valley, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Australia's biggest lift network runs from the June long weekend to the October long weekend.52climate
  16. 🇨🇱 Pucón, ChileSkiing on the volcano · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The small centre on the volcano's northern flank runs from about mid-June to mid-October, snow and alert level permitting.52climate
  17. 🇨🇱 Farellones, ChileSki season · 15 Jun – 30 Sep (usually)Farellones and El Colorado share one lift system and usually open in the second half of June — 19 June in 2026 — running into late September depending on how the storms come in.52climate
  18. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Sep (usually)About 66 cm of snow falls in the month.52climate
  19. 🇦🇺 Falls Creek, AustraliaLifts turning · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The resort runs from the June long weekend to early October on Victoria's best snowmaking rather than on faith in the natural cover.50climate
  20. 🇦🇷 Las Leñas, ArgentinaSki season · 20 Jun – 1 Oct (usually)The resort usually opens in the second half of June and runs to late September.49climate
  21. 🇨🇱 Portillo, ChileSki season · 20 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)A single hotel at 2,880 metres on a lake, open from late June to the start of October and shut the rest of the year.48climate
  22. 🇦🇺 Thredbo, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the June long weekend to the October long weekend, held up by snowmaking on the lower runs.47climate
  23. 🇦🇺 Mount Buller, AustraliaWinter season · 8 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Lifts run from the King's Birthday long weekend to the October school holidays, held together by snowmaking.47climate
  24. 🇳🇿 Tongariro, New ZealandRuapehu ski season · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)Whakapapa and Tūroa sit on an active volcano and run from mid-winter into spring, snow allowing.47climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Glacier Bay National Park, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 Sep (usually)About 36 cm of snow falls in the month.45climate

…and 5 more in September.

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Ski season in October

  1. 🇨🇱 Santiago, ChileSki season · 14 Jun – 4 Oct (usually)Lifts an hour from the centre, best in August, on a road of forty switchbacks that closes for snow and requires chains more often than visitors expect.91climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Denver, United StatesMountain ski season · 25 Oct – 20 Apr (usually)Denver is the airport for the I-70 resorts, which turn lifts from late October to April.86climate
  3. 🇳🇿 Christchurch, New ZealandCanterbury ski season · 5 Jun – 10 Oct (usually)Mt Hutt is an hour and a half away and usually opens first in the country and closes last; the club fields behind it run on gravel roads and rope tows, and the city drives up for the day.81climate
  4. 🇵🇰 Gilgit, PakistanSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 40 cm of snow falls in the month.73climate
  5. 🇦🇹 Innsbruck, AustriaStubai glacier opens · 5 Oct – 30 Nov (usually)The glacier above the Stubai valley starts turning lifts in October, months before anything in the valleys, and it is the only skiing within reach of the city until December.72climate
  6. 🇰🇬 Cholpon-Ata, KyrgyzstanSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 63 cm of snow falls in the month.71climate
  7. 🇦🇷 Ushuaia, ArgentinaCerro Castor ski season · 25 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end.66climate
  8. 🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche, ArgentinaSki season · 29 Jun – 4 Oct (usually)Catedral runs from late June to early October, with the most reliable cover in August and the Argentine winter school holidays filling July from end to end.65climate
  9. 🇦🇷 San Martín de los Andes, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 37 cm of snow falls in the month.64climate
  10. 🇬🇪 Mestia, GeorgiaSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 46 cm of snow falls in the month.64climate
  11. 🇳🇿 Queenstown, New ZealandSki season · 13 Jun – 11 Oct (usually)Four fields within an hour, a base that peaks in August, and lift queues that follow the New Zealand and Australian school holidays rather than the snow.63climate
  12. 🇺🇸 Aspen, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 30 cm of snow falls in the month.63climate
  13. 🇳🇿 Wānaka, New ZealandSki season · 15 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Cardrona and Treble Cone run from about mid-June until the snow gives out in early October, both up long gravel access roads that want chains.61climate
  14. 🇨🇱 Pucón, ChileSkiing on the volcano · 15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The small centre on the volcano's northern flank runs from about mid-June to mid-October, snow and alert level permitting.61climate
  15. 🇰🇬 Karakol, KyrgyzstanSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 34 cm of snow falls in the month.61climate
  16. 🇺🇸 Breckenridge, United StatesSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 31 cm of snow falls in the month.61climate
  17. 🇨🇱 Farellones, ChileSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 55 cm of snow falls in the month.60climate
  18. 🇦🇹 Sölden, AustriaGlacier skiing opens · 15 Sep – 15 Nov (usually)The Rettenbach and Tiefenbach glaciers turn lifts from about mid-September, which is why the national teams train here before anyone else has snow.60climate
  19. 🇵🇰 Skardu, PakistanSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 37 cm of snow falls in the month.60climate
  20. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 61 cm of snow falls in the month.59climate
  21. 🇦🇷 Las Leñas, ArgentinaSki season · 20 Jun – 1 Oct (usually)The resort usually opens in the second half of June and runs to late September.58climate
  22. 🇦🇺 Perisher Valley, AustraliaWinter season · 5 Jun – 5 Oct (usually)Australia's biggest lift network runs from the June long weekend to the October long weekend.58climate
  23. 🇫🇷 Val d'Isère, FranceSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 32 cm of snow falls in the month.58climate
  24. 🇦🇹 Zell am See, AustriaGlacier skiing opens · 5 Oct – 30 Nov (usually)The Kitzsteinhorn turns lifts from about the tenth of October, months before the valley runs.58climate
  25. 🇵🇰 Hunza, PakistanSnow season · 1–28 Oct (usually)About 31 cm of snow falls in the month.57climate

…and 42 more in October.

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Ski season in November

  1. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainSierra Nevada ski season · 28 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Europe's southernmost resort is forty minutes up the road and runs from late November into April, later than the Alps in a good year because of the altitude.78climate
  2. 🇺🇸 Denver, United StatesMountain ski season · 25 Oct – 20 Apr (usually)Denver is the airport for the I-70 resorts, which turn lifts from late October to April.73climate
  3. 🇺🇸 Reno, United StatesTahoe ski season · 20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Reno is the cheap bed for the north Tahoe resorts, forty-five minutes up the hill at Mount Rose and an hour to the lake.72climate
  4. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesSki season · 25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)The ski area is twenty-five minutes up the mountain from the plaza and tops out above 3,600 metres, which is why a town at this latitude has a season at all.71climate
  5. 🇺🇸 Flagstaff, United StatesArizona Snowbowl season · 15 Nov – 10 Apr (usually)Skiing above 9,000 feet an hour and a half from Phoenix, opening when the snowmaking allows rather than on a fixed date.70climate
  6. 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, United StatesSki season · 20 Nov – 20 Apr (usually)Four resorts sit half an hour from downtown up the Cottonwood canyons, open from late November into April.69climate
  7. 🇯🇵 Karuizawa, JapanFirst lifts in Japan · 1 Nov – 31 MarThe Prince resort makes snow in cold, dry air and usually opens on 1 November, weeks before anywhere else in Nagano has any.69climate
  8. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 47 cm of snow falls in the month.66climate
  9. 🇺🇸 Taos, United StatesSki season · 26 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)Taos Ski Valley opens around Thanksgiving and runs to early April, steep enough that it refused snowboarders until 2008.65climate
  10. 🇰🇬 Cholpon-Ata, KyrgyzstanSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 37 cm of snow falls in the month.64climate
  11. 🇰🇷 Pyeongchang, South KoreaSki season · 25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)Yongpyong and Alpensia open on manufactured snow from late November and run night skiing most of the winter.61climate
  12. 🇺🇸 Bend, United StatesMt Bachelor ski season · 25 Nov – 15 May (usually)The mountain is half an hour from town and usually turns lifts from late November into May, one of the longer seasons in the country.61climate
  13. 🇦🇹 Salzburg, AustriaSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 33 cm of snow falls in the month.60climate
  14. Vaduz, LiechtensteinSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 34 cm of snow falls in the month.60climate
  15. 🇯🇵 Sapporo, JapanSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 37 cm of snow falls in the month.59climate
  16. 🇦🇹 Innsbruck, AustriaStubai glacier opens · 5 Oct – 30 Nov (usually)The glacier above the Stubai valley starts turning lifts in October, months before anything in the valleys, and it is the only skiing within reach of the city until December.59climate
  17. 🇺🇸 South Lake Tahoe, United StatesSki season · 20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Heavenly runs from the edge of town up onto the ridge between two states, usually from late November into April.59climate
  18. 🇦🇷 El Chaltén, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 129 cm of snow falls in the month.59climate
  19. 🇦🇩 Andorra la Vella, AndorraSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 30 cm of snow falls in the month.58climate
  20. 🇦🇹 Hallstatt, AustriaSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 55 cm of snow falls in the month.58climate
  21. 🇩🇪 Füssen, GermanySnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 39 cm of snow falls in the month.58climate
  22. 🇨🇭 Montreux, SwitzerlandSnow season · 1–28 Nov (usually)About 33 cm of snow falls in the month.58climate
  23. 🇪🇸 Sierra Nevada, SpainSki season · 25 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Europe's most southerly resort usually opens at the end of November and runs to late April, three weeks past the Pyrenean resorts.57climate
  24. 🇺🇸 Telluride, United StatesSki season · 26 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)The season runs Thanksgiving to early April, with the free gondola between town and Mountain Village doing the work a road cannot.54climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Mammoth Lakes, United StatesMammoth ski season · 5 Nov – 31 May (usually)Mammoth holds snow longer than anywhere else in California and regularly spins lifts into late May, sometimes past it.54climate

…and 100 more in November.

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Ski season in December

  1. 🇮🇹 Catania, ItalySkiing on Etna · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Nicolosi and Piano Provenzana run a handful of lifts on the volcano in a normal winter, an hour above a coast where the oranges are being picked.82climate
  2. 🇱🇧 Beirut, LebanonSki season above the city · 20 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Faraya and the Cedars are inside two hours of the corniche, which is where the old line about skiing and swimming in one day comes from.79climate
  3. 🇲🇦 Imlil, MoroccoWinter on Toubkal · 1 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)Snow and ice above three thousand metres: crampons, an axe and someone who knows the avalanche history, or a ski-touring trip instead.76climate
  4. 🇮🇹 Taormina, ItalySnow on Etna · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The volcano usually holds snow from midwinter, which is the view Taormina is built around, and the two small lift areas at Nicolosi and Linguaglossa run when it does.74climate
  5. 🇪🇸 Granada, SpainSierra Nevada ski season · 28 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Europe's southernmost resort is forty minutes up the road and runs from late November into April, later than the Alps in a good year because of the altitude.73climate
  6. 🇫🇷 Nice, FranceSki day trips open · 5 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Isola 2000 and Auron are about ninety minutes from the seafront and run from December to early April.71climate
  7. Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSnow season · 1–28 Dec (usually)About 42 cm of snow falls in the month.71climate
  8. 🇮🇷 Tehran, IranSki season above the city · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Dizin, Shemshak and the Tochal gondola from the top of the metro line: real snow, an hour from the centre, and a season that usually runs from December into April.68climate
  9. 🇺🇸 Denver, United StatesMountain ski season · 25 Oct – 20 Apr (usually)Denver is the airport for the I-70 resorts, which turn lifts from late October to April.67climate
  10. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaCaucasus ski season · 15 Dec – 10 Apr (usually)Gudauri is two hours up the military highway and runs on cheap lift passes and a lot of off-piste.65climate
  11. 🇹🇷 Trabzon, TurkeyZigana ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The pass an hour inland holds snow through the winter and runs a small lift system, which is more a local weekend thing than a resort.64climate
  12. 🇹🇷 Rize, TurkeySnow season · 1–28 Dec (usually)About 38 cm of snow falls in the month.64climate
  13. 🇺🇸 Santa Fe, United StatesSki season · 25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)The ski area is twenty-five minutes up the mountain from the plaza and tops out above 3,600 metres, which is why a town at this latitude has a season at all.63climate
  14. 🇮🇳 Manali, IndiaSnow season at Solang · 20 Dec – 28 FebSolang and the slopes above town are where the plains come to see snow, which is a different activity from skiing.62climate
  15. 🇹🇷 Bursa, TurkeyUludağ ski season · 15 Dec – 31 Mar (usually)The lifts usually run from the middle of December to the end of March, with January and February the dependable months.62climate
  16. 🇯🇵 Matsumoto, JapanSnow season · 1–28 Dec (usually)About 38 cm of snow falls in the month.62climate
  17. 🇺🇸 Flagstaff, United StatesArizona Snowbowl season · 15 Nov – 10 Apr (usually)Skiing above 9,000 feet an hour and a half from Phoenix, opening when the snowmaking allows rather than on a fixed date.61climate
  18. 🇦🇷 El Chaltén, ArgentinaSnow season · 1–28 Dec (usually)About 99 cm of snow falls in the month.61climate
  19. 🇬🇪 Kutaisi, GeorgiaSnow season · 1–28 Dec (usually)About 33 cm of snow falls in the month.61climate
  20. 🇺🇸 Reno, United StatesTahoe ski season · 20 Nov – 15 Apr (usually)Reno is the cheap bed for the north Tahoe resorts, forty-five minutes up the hill at Mount Rose and an hour to the lake.61climate
  21. 🇮🇹 Turin, ItalySki season in the valleys · 5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually)Sestriere and the rest of the Milky Way are ninety minutes up the valley, which is why Turin fills with ski traffic at weekends and empties into the mountains at Christmas and Carnival.60climate
  22. 🇺🇿 Tashkent, UzbekistanChimgan ski season · 15 Dec – 20 Mar (usually)Chimgan and Amirsoy are an hour and a half up the road, which makes this one of the few capitals you can ski from and be back for dinner.59climate
  23. 🇯🇵 Karuizawa, JapanFirst lifts in Japan · 1 Nov – 31 MarThe Prince resort makes snow in cold, dry air and usually opens on 1 November, weeks before anywhere else in Nagano has any.58climate
  24. 🇷🇺 Sochi, RussiaSki season up the valley · 15 Dec – 30 Apr (usually)The resorts above Krasnaya Polyana are forty minutes inland and turn their lifts from the second half of December.57climate
  25. 🇺🇸 Taos, United StatesSki season · 26 Nov – 5 Apr (usually)Taos Ski Valley opens around Thanksgiving and runs to early April, steep enough that it refused snowboarders until 2008.56climate

…and 180 more in December.

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