Three more areas start operating this weekend, and the snow stays away for now. Glacier 3000 opens on Saturday 7 November, Verbier starts weekend operation at Lac des Vaux, and on the Italian side of Cervinia more lifts run from 7 November. Anyone hoping for fresh snow has to wait: according to the MeteoSwiss forecast it stays dry until Monday, from Tuesday the freezing level climbs to almost 3000 metres, and only on Friday 13 November does it drop again, at times below 2300 metres.
The status is Saturday 7 November 2026, in the morning. We read the operating information on the lift companies’ own pages; the weather figures come from MeteoSwiss.
What the lift companies themselves report
- Glacier 3000 (Les Diablerets): The company’s page announces the reopening for Saturday 7 November, with the first ride up at 8.30 am and skiing until the end of April. It names the pistes Scex Rouge, Dôme and Tzanfleuron and a training piste. The page carries no date for this information, the most recent entries are from 26 October. It does not give a snow depth.
- Verbier: “From this Saturday, 7 November, Lac des Vaux will be open at weekends!” That is all the company says: no start date for the other areas (Mont-Fort, Nendaz, Veysonnaz), only “Skiing from November to the end of April”. This is weekend operation in one sector, not the start of the winter season.
- Cervinia (Italy): On 3 November the company reports: “From 7 November, we’re back on skis on the Italian side of the Cervino”, with the lifts Plan Maison, Fornet and Bontadini opening.
- Mölltaler Gletscher: “Ab heute, 6.11.2026 geöffnet! Piste 8+9 in Betrieb!” (open from today, 6 November 2026, pistes 8 and 9 running). Hours 8 am to 4.30 pm, season from 6 November 2026 to 30 May 2027, depending on snow. The glacier has therefore been open since Friday, not since 1 November as this site listed it until today.
- Laax: Start of the winter season on 28 and 29 November, daily winter sports operation from Saturday 5 December (laax.com).
- Davos Parsenn: “Am Freitag, 13. November 2026, startet Parsenn Davos voraussichtlich in die Wintersaison.” (On Friday 13 November 2026 Parsenn Davos is expected to start the winter season.) The word “voraussichtlich” (expected) is on davos.ch itself (article of 28 October).
Not confirmed, and therefore not in this list: Titlis, whose company page was unreachable on Saturday (error 429), Saas-Fee, whose page shows a counter “Lifte 8 / 39” without a date, Zermatt, whose page returned no operating status on Saturday (counter 0), and Corviglia in St. Moritz and Andermatt, where the companies’ pages name no date. We do not take over anything that is not on the lift company’s own page.
Weather: dry first, then warm, then snow again
We evaluated the official MeteoSwiss point forecast (run of Saturday, 9 am UTC). It is the same forecast as in the MeteoSwiss app and runs until 15 November.
- Saturday and Sunday: dry at all places evaluated, mild up to 5 or 6 degrees in the Alpine valleys. The freezing level is around 1800 to 2400 metres in the daytime.
- Monday to Wednesday: distinctly warmer, with the freezing level rising to roughly 2500 to 3100 metres. The precipitation on Tuesday (between 3 mm in Davos and Andermatt and 12.7 mm in Engelberg) therefore falls largely as rain in the ski areas, as snow only at the very top. At the Jungfraujoch (3571 m) it is 15 mm on Tuesday at minus 5 to minus 3 degrees.
- Thursday: the next disturbance reaches Andermatt (6.9 mm) and Zermatt (6.5 mm); the freezing level stays at 2300 to 3100 metres.
- Friday and Saturday, 13 and 14 November: the freezing level drops to roughly 2200 to 2800 metres, on Saturday at times to 1700 to 2300 metres. On Friday Davos gets 4.5 mm, Andermatt 5.3 mm and the Säntis 9 mm. This is where it is decided whether snow falls above roughly 2300 metres.
Chart figures and precipitation as a table
| Day | Davos: freezing level, highest value | Davos precipitation | Andermatt precipitation | Säntis precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 7 Nov | 2071 m | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0.2 mm |
| Sun 8 Nov | 2086 m | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Mon 9 Nov | 2479 m | 0.3 mm | 0.3 mm | 7.2 mm |
| Tue 10 Nov | 2829 m | 3.2 mm | 3.2 mm | 17 mm |
| Wed 11 Nov | 2912 m | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0.7 mm |
| Thu 12 Nov | 2939 m | 1.3 mm | 6.9 mm | 1.1 mm |
| Fri 13 Nov | 2822 m | 4.5 mm | 5.3 mm | 9 mm |
| Sat 14 Nov | 2213 m | 0.5 mm | 0.2 mm | 3.1 mm |
| Sun 15 Nov | 2305 m | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0.1 mm |
What this means for Davos: 13 November is a Friday with precipitation and a falling freezing level, but the lift company itself says “expected”. Whether Parsenn actually starts depends on how much machine-made snow is on the pistes, and that is not in the forecast. We will check the company’s page again before the weekend.
Two caveats belong here. Precipitation in millimetres is not fresh snow: how much snow it becomes depends on the temperature, and the point forecast applies to one place, not to the piste. And with eight days of lead time the uncertainty is large: the timing of the disturbances can shift by a day, the freezing level by several hundred metres. The SLF snow data was unreachable on Saturday (error 503), so we evaluated no snow depths.
What we know about November overall is in the article Second winter storm, and the classification of the dry year in Too warm, too dry.
Read on: All open resorts · Opening dates winter 2026/27 · Winter forecast
Sources
- Glacier 3000: glacier3000.ch/de, retrieved 7 November 2026.
- Verbier: verbier4vallees.ch/en, retrieved 7 November 2026.
- Cervinia: cervinia.it/en, news item of 3 November 2026, retrieved 7 November 2026.
- Mölltaler Gletscher: moelltaler-gletscher.at, retrieved 7 November 2026.
- Laax: laax.com/de, retrieved 7 November 2026.
- Davos Parsenn: davos.ch, article of 28 October 2026, retrieved 7 November 2026.
- Weather: MeteoSwiss, local point forecast (ogd-local-forecasting), run of
7 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 areas in Austria and Italy, so they are not in the weather section.
