# The 38 Best Ski Resorts in the Alps

> Glacier giants with year-round runs sit next to car-free villages and Olympic old-timers; some win on sheer kilometres of piste, others on a single legendary downhill.

*By YPB Team · Published November 7, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-38-best-ski-resorts-in-the-alps*

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1. **Zermatt** — score 1000/1000
   Swiss resort beneath the Matterhorn whose ski area links across the border to Breuil-Cervinia in Italy and includes year-round glacier skiing.
2. **Breuil-Cervinia** — score 695/1000
   Italian resort on the south side of the Matterhorn, linked by lift and piste to Zermatt.
3. **St. Anton am Arlberg** — score 695/1000
   Tyrolean resort where Hannes Schneider founded his influential ski school in 1921, now part of the linked Ski Arlberg area.
4. **Les Arcs** — score 677/1000
   French resort linked to La Plagne by the Vanoise Express cable car to form the Paradiski area.
5. **Kitzbühel** — score 648/1000
   Austrian town whose Hahnenkamm races have been held since 1931, on the Streif downhill since 1937.
6. **Laax** — score 648/1000
   Swiss resort in the Flims Laax Falera area, known for its freestyle parks and the Laax Open snowboard contest.
7. **Sölden** — score 648/1000
   Ötztal resort whose Rettenbach glacier hosts the opening giant slalom of the Alpine Ski World Cup each October.
8. **Val Gardena** — score 595/1000
   Dolomites valley on the Sella Ronda circuit whose Saslong course hosts a World Cup downhill every December.
9. **Saalbach-Hinterglemm** — score 595/1000
   Salzburg resort in the Skicircus area with Leogang and Fieberbrunn, host of the 2025 Alpine World Ski Championships.
10. **Val Thorens** — score 595/1000
   Purpose-built French resort at about 2,300 m, the highest ski resort village in Europe, part of Les 3 Vallées.
11. **Obergurgl** — score 534/1000
   High Ötztal resort with Hochgurgl, known for reliable snow from November to May.
12. **Crans-Montana** — score 534/1000
   Valais resort above the Rhône valley that hosted the 1987 Alpine World Ski Championships and is set to host them again in 2027.
13. **Verbier** — score 534/1000
   Swiss resort at the heart of the 4 Vallées area that hosts the Xtreme Verbier freeride final on the Bec des Rosses.
14. **Megève** — score 463/1000
   Haute-Savoie village developed as a ski resort in the 1920s by Baroness Noémie de Rothschild.
15. **Engelberg** — score 463/1000
   Central Swiss resort below Mount Titlis, reached by the Rotair revolving cable car.
16. **Garmisch-Partenkirchen** — score 463/1000
   Bavarian resort that hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics and stages the Kandahar World Cup downhill.
17. **Madonna di Campiglio** — score 463/1000
   Trentino resort whose Canalone Miramonti slope hosts the 3-Tre World Cup night slalom.
18. **Méribel** — score 463/1000
   Resort in the middle of Les 3 Vallées that staged women's Alpine events at the 1992 Olympics and co-hosted the 2023 World Championships.
19. **Courchevel** — score 379/1000
   French resort with its own altiport, part of Les 3 Vallées and co-host of the 2023 Alpine World Ski Championships.
20. **Val d'Isère** — score 379/1000
   French resort that shares the Espace Killy ski area with Tignes and hosted the 2009 Alpine World Ski Championships.
21. **St. Moritz** — score 379/1000
   Engadin resort that hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948 and is home to the Cresta Run.
22. **La Plagne** — score 379/1000
   French resort in the Paradiski area that hosted the bobsleigh and luge events of the 1992 Olympics.
23. **Les Deux Alpes** — score 379/1000
   French resort with one of Europe's largest skiable glaciers, offering summer skiing.
24. **Grindelwald** — score 379/1000
   Jungfrau region village below the Eiger, with skiing on First and Kleine Scheidegg–Männlichen.
25. **Chamonix** — score 278/1000
   Resort below Mont Blanc that hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924 and is known for the Vallée Blanche off-piste descent.
26. **Davos** — score 278/1000
   Swiss resort with the Parsenn ski area, where the world's first T-bar lift opened on the Bolgen slope in 1934.
27. **Lech** — score 278/1000
   Vorarlberg village in the Ski Arlberg area, known for the White Ring ski circuit with Zürs.
28. **Saas-Fee** — score 278/1000
   Car-free Swiss glacier village surrounded by peaks over 4,000 m, with a revolving restaurant at the Allalin station.
29. **Mayrhofen** — score 278/1000
   Zillertal resort known for the Harakiri, a groomed slope with a gradient of 78 percent.
30. **Cortina d'Ampezzo** — score 278/1000
   Dolomites resort that hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-hosted the 2026 Milano Cortina Games.
31. **Tignes** — score 278/1000
   French resort sharing the Espace Killy with Val d'Isère, with glacier skiing on the Grande Motte.
32. **Arosa Lenzerheide** — score 278/1000
   Graubünden ski area formed when the Urdenbahn cable car linked Arosa and Lenzerheide in the 2013–14 season.
33. **Avoriaz** — score 0/1000
   Car-free resort built in the 1960s at the heart of the Franco-Swiss Portes du Soleil area.
34. **Alpe d'Huez** — score 0/1000
   French resort known for the Sarenne, a 16 km black run counted among the longest in the Alps.
35. **Livigno** — score 0/1000
   Duty-free Italian valley resort that hosted freestyle and snowboard events at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
36. **Bormio** — score 0/1000
   Valtellina resort whose Stelvio piste hosted the men's Alpine events at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
37. **Ischgl** — score 0/1000
   Tyrolean resort whose Silvretta Arena ski area links across the border to duty-free Samnaun in Switzerland.
38. **Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis** — score 0/1000
   Tyrolean plateau resort of three villages, known for its family ski programs and an underground metro in Serfaus.

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