On Friday the first large Swiss non-glacier resort joins in, and from Monday it might finally snow. Davos Klosters opens Parsenn on Friday 13 November. At the weekend Mürren, Verbier (Lac des Vaux) and Diavolezza also run, the latter for the last time before its break until 19 December. According to the MeteoSwiss forecast the weekend stays dry and cold; from Monday a week of precipitation follows with a freezing level between 1500 and 2300 metres. That is the first real chance of snow for the seven openings of 21 November.
The status is Thursday 12 November 2026, midday. We read the operating information on the lift companies’ own pages; the weather figures come from MeteoSwiss.
What the lift companies themselves report
- Davos Klosters: “Am Freitag, 13. November 2026, startet Parsenn Davos in die Wintersaison.” (On Friday 13 November 2026 Parsenn Davos starts the winter season.) That has been on davos.ch since 10 November, without the “expected” of October. The other mountains follow, according to the company, “in November and December”.
- Diavolezza: autumn skiing only on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and only until 15 November. The lifts then close; the winter season with Lagalb begins on 19 December (corvatsch-diavolezza.ch, operating times). Sunday is therefore the last chance before a five-week break.
- Mürren-Schilthorn: weekend operation from 31 October to 20 November, daily operation from Saturday 21 November (schilthorn.ch).
- Verbier: “Throughout November, the facilities will be open at weekends only”, company news of 11 November. The open sector is Lac des Vaux.
- St. Moritz Corviglia: not on the 21st but on 28 November. The winter timetable on mountains.ch gives 28 November for the St. Moritz Bad to Signal cable car and 19 December for Corviglia to Piz Nair. Season pass holders may ski from 27 November. We had 21 November in our table without a source; corrected.
- Adelboden-Lenk: weekend skiing depending on snow from 28 November, daily from 5 December, Tschentenalp from 18 December (adelboden-lenk.ch, operating times). This site had listed the resort as open since 24 October because of the training operation; that is corrected too.
Not confirmed, and therefore not in this list: Engelberg-Titlis, where the opening of Stand and Trübsee was announced for 15 November. The company’s page has been blocking us for weeks (error 429); please check there yourself before travelling. Andermatt-Sedrun (21 November) is also in our overview without confirmation from the lift company.
Weather: dry weekend, then a week of precipitation
We evaluated the official MeteoSwiss point forecast (run of Thursday 12 November, 9 am UTC). It runs until 20 November.
- Thursday: the last precipitation of the mild phase, 7 to 14 mm, with a freezing level sinking during the day from above 2700 to about 1500 metres (Säntis). Snow up high, rain below.
- Friday: cold and almost dry. The freezing level is low in the morning, around 1160 metres in Davos and below 1000 at the Säntis. Parsenn therefore starts in sub-zero temperatures, which helps snowmaking.
- Saturday and Sunday: dry, mild in the daytime, with the freezing level rising again to 2400 to 2600 metres. Good weather for the open resorts, but no fresh snow.
- Monday to Friday, 16 to 20 November: five days with precipitation. At the Jungfraujoch it adds up to 66 mm, at the Säntis 55 mm, in Engelberg 46 mm, in Davos 12 mm. The freezing level swings between 1200 and 2500 metres, from Wednesday mostly below 2300. These are the days on which millimetres turn into snow on the pistes of the resorts opening on 21 November.
Chart figures and freezing level as a table
| Day | Jungfraujoch | Säntis | Engelberg | Zermatt | Davos | Freezing level Davos (lowest to highest hourly value) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 12 Nov | 9.9 mm | 13.5 mm | 8.4 mm | 8.3 mm | 6.6 mm | 2308 to 2737 m |
| Fri 13 Nov | 0.8 mm | 3.4 mm | 6.4 mm | 0.4 mm | 3.4 mm | 1163 to 2239 m |
| Sat 14 Nov | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1293 to 2422 m |
| Sun 15 Nov | 0.5 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2086 to 2397 m |
| Mon 16 Nov | 12.7 mm | 10.4 mm | 9.1 mm | 3.3 mm | 3.1 mm | 1605 to 2335 m |
| Tue 17 Nov | 11 mm | 7 mm | 7.5 mm | 4.2 mm | 1.6 mm | 1449 to 2217 m |
| Wed 18 Nov | 19.7 mm | 15.2 mm | 13.6 mm | 8.9 mm | 3.4 mm | 1902 to 2141 m |
| Thu 19 Nov | 16.4 mm | 14.6 mm | 11.3 mm | 4.8 mm | 3.1 mm | 1824 to 2075 m |
| Fri 20 Nov | 6.2 mm | 7.7 mm | 4.8 mm | 0.5 mm | 1.1 mm | 1788 to 2061 m |
Two caveats belong here. Davos sits in a rain shadow: the forecast gives Davos 12 mm for the whole week and the Jungfraujoch 66. For Parsenn, snowmaking remains decisive, not the sky. And eight days of lead time is a lot: the amounts from Wednesday can halve or double, and the timing can shift by a day. We will look again before 21 November.
On Thursday the SLF snow data returned implausible values for several stations (up to 780 centimetres at above-freezing temperatures). We do not display such readings and are currently building a check that detects them automatically.
Read on: All open resorts · Opening dates winter 2026/27 · Weekend of 7/8 November · Winter forecast
Sources
- Davos Klosters: davos.ch, home page and news item “Bereit für den Winter?” of 10 November 2026, retrieved 12 November 2026.
- Diavolezza, Corvatsch: corvatsch-diavolezza.ch, operating times, retrieved 12 November 2026.
- Mürren-Schilthorn: schilthorn.ch/de/Infos/Aktuell, retrieved 12 November 2026.
- Verbier: verbier4vallees.ch, news of 11 November 2026, retrieved 12 November 2026.
- St. Moritz Corviglia: mountains.ch/de/anlagen (winter timetable) and mountains.ch/de/events/early-season-opening, retrieved 12 November 2026.
- Adelboden-Lenk: adelboden-lenk.ch/betriebszeiten, retrieved 12 November 2026.
- Engelberg-Titlis: titlis.ch, not retrievable on 12 November 2026 (429).
- Weather: MeteoSwiss, local point forecast (ogd-local-forecasting), run of
12 November 2026, 9 am UTC. Precipitation as daily sum, freezing level as
hourly value. Recalculate with
scripts/punktprognose.mjs; a new call returns today’s state, not the state of this article. - What is missing: MeteoSwiss has no point forecast for resorts in Austria and Italy.
