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Second winter storm: up to 24 centimetres in 24 hours measured, and the next wave arrives on Sunday
SLF stations recorded a rise in snow depth of up to 24 centimetres in 24 hours, and the deepest snow measured is 36. On Sunday MeteoSwiss expects the next wave, and on Tuesday the freezing level climbs above 4,000 metres. What was measured and what is due until 1 November.
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The big opening weekend: Titlis, Diavolezza, Cervinia and the World Cup in Sölden, and on Wednesday it snows everywhere
On 24 October Diavolezza, Cervinia and Adelboden start and the World Cup season begins in Sölden. The Titlis (29 October) and Mölltal (provisionally 1 November) open later. Who opens when, what is already running and what the weather brought.
Where to ski this weekend: eleven resorts compared, and Zermatt gets 30 centimetres
Zermatt is skiing again, Kaunertal opens, Sölden moves to the Tiefenbach glacier. Every open resort in the Alps with open piste kilometres, lifts and price per kilometre, plus the weather: on Sunday it snows heavily in the south.
Dry first, then it turns: the weather up to the Titlis opening and the World Cup in Sölden
The next two weeks in 51 weather runs: dry and cold until Friday, ideal for the snow guns. From 17 October it turns unsettled, and in one run in four the south gets half a metre or more.
A cold snap for the season start: Sölden, Stubai and the Kitzsteinhorn open this weekend
On Thursday it snows on the glaciers, in all 51 model runs. On Friday Sölden and Stubai start, on Saturday the Kitzsteinhorn. How much snow falls where, who is already running and who is still waiting.
When will the ski resorts really open? Our October forecast, resort by resort
Update 7 October: on Thursday it snows in all 51 model runs, 24 to 64 cm at 3,000 m by 21 October. From 10 October the Alps turn colder than normal. Stubai and Kitzsteinhorn can use that; the Titlis moves to 24 October. 51 weather runs, every announced opening date, honestly assessed.
Will the Sölden World Cup go ahead? The figures say yes, and from 9 October the ski area runs too
On 24 and 25 October the alpine World Cup opens on the Rettenbach glacier, and the glacier ski area already opens on 9 October. At 2,900 metres, 86 hours over the next sixteen days are cold enough to make snow; nine hundred metres lower, ten Swiss areas together manage 95. Why a race is easier than a season.
The warmest September in 36 years. It says almost nothing about the winter
September 2026 was the warmest at 2,000 metres in our series. We ran the numbers on 35 winters: after the ten warmest Septembers, 316 centimetres of snow fell on average; after the ten coldest, 267. The relationship points the opposite way to the one people assume, and it is weak.
Too warm to make snow: the cold window has slipped five days
Five days ago the first usable snowmaking nights fell on 4 to 6 October; now they fall on the 9th and 10th. Over sixteen days, 95 of 3,840 hours are cold enough, and seven of ten areas get not one centimetre of snow. The figures, and what they mean for the season start.
Six glaciers have a date. Zermatt does not
Val Senales has been running since 19 September, Pitztal follows on the 26th, Hintertux in late September, Stubai and Sölden in October. Kaunertal has called its start off, and the Theodul glacier above Zermatt has nothing announced. Every date with its source and status.
The Stelvio reopens on Friday, on the warmest day in a fortnight
S.I.F.A.S. resumes skiing on 4 September, from 06:30 to 12:00, citing fallen temperatures. At 3,200 metres that day carries a high of 14.9 degrees. How both can be true, and why our own assessment four days ago was wrong. Plus the confirmed season start on the Val Senales glacier: 19 September.
When can the glaciers reopen? What was enough in 2022, and what is missing now
Zermatt will reopen as soon as natural conditions allow. We worked out what that meant in concrete terms in 2022: four consecutive days below freezing. The forecast to mid-September contains not one such day.
No summer skiing left in the Alps: 24 areas have given up, four of them in three weeks
On 15 August 2026 the Stelvio was the last area to stop summer operations. Since then nobody in the Alps has been skiing in summer, for the first time. The record of 24 closures, the decade in comparison, and the reason that is not the ice.
Zermatt gets frost but almost no snow: the turn in the weather, in numbers
Two weeks ago the freezing level did not once drop below 3,950 metres. It now averages 3,372 metres, and nine frosty nights are due on the Theodul glacier. What that means for the suspended summer skiing, and what it does not.
Freeride goes Olympic: what the 7 July decision means for Switzerland
The IOC has added freeride to the programme of the 2030 Winter Games in the French Alps: four medal events, 44 athletes, split equally between women and men. The road there ran through FIS, and it began in Verbier.
Swiss gold at the Olympic debut: how the ski tour became a competitive sport
At the 2026 Winter Games in Milano Cortina, ski mountaineering appeared on the Olympic programme for the first time. Marianne Fatton won the sprint and became the discipline's first Olympic champion; two days later came silver in the mixed relay. What the sport is, and what it has to do with an ordinary ski tour.
Is 2026 worse than 2022? The glacier comparison, figure by figure
Short answer: no. GLAMOS director Matthias Huss says 2026 is clearly in second place. Yet in one respect 2026 starts from a worse position than the record year, and for skiing it is unambiguously worse. Why both are true at once.
Stelvio stops too: nobody is skiing in the Alps any more
From 15 August 2026 the Gentili glacier stands still as well. For the first time, not a single ski area in the Alps is running summer operations. Six areas shut down one after another this summer, the last after 77 days. The chronicle of a season without precedent.
Mont Blanc shut, Matterhorn cancelled, Oeschinensee closed: where the Alps stand
Both huts on the normal route up Mont Blanc are closed indefinitely, the Zermatt guides have stopped every Matterhorn ascent, and around 1500 cubic metres of rock fell at Oeschinensee on 8 August. What is closed, what is merely advised against, and why the difference matters.
Winter 2025/26 in review: a record in the hotels, a loss on the lifts
Swiss cableways lost 2 per cent of first entries while the hotel sector reported a record 18.7 million overnight stays. Both are true. We show why that is not a contradiction, and where the record actually came from.
Saas-Fee stops too: from Monday, Switzerland has no summer skiing at all
9 August is the last operating day. From 10 August the Fee glacier stands still. That takes out the second and last Swiss summer ski area – and leaves exactly one in the entire Alps.
Alpine weather outlook: the next 14 days, honestly calculated
The freezing level does not drop below 3,950 metres once in the coming fortnight. What that means for Zermatt, Saas-Fee and the Stelvio Pass – and from which day a 14-day outlook stops being a forecast.
Hintertux gives up year-round skiing: the end of an era in four steps
Austria's only 365-day ski area stood still from late July to early October 2026, and has been running again since 2 October. The retreat from year-round skiing played out over four summers and shows how these endings actually happen: not with an announcement, but with ever longer pauses.
When do Swiss ski resorts open for winter 2026/27?
Four resorts start in October, nine in November, 72 not until December. The announced dates, the pattern behind them, and an honest answer to how binding a date announced in August really is.
Europe’s hot summer 2026: what really was a record and what was not
Seven national heat records, 42,000 hectares of wildfire in the Gironde, summer skiing halted in Zermatt. A stocktake of the European summer of 2026 – and a correction on two countries that keep getting named.
Five metres in eight days: the record storm in the Andes
Between 15 and 23 July 2026, Portillo received almost an entire season’s snow at once. For the ski areas it is an exceptional winter; for the valleys below it is a disaster with 13 dead. What happened.
Where people are skiing right now: the southern hemisphere in August 2026
While the Alpine glaciers stand still, the southern hemisphere is in peak season. The Andes are swimming in snow, Australia is fighting dry weather, New Zealand sits in between. The overview with current figures.
Zermatt halts summer skiing: too warm, too little night frost
Zermatt Bergbahnen shut down skiing on the Theodul glacier on 31 July 2026. Switzerland’s last year-round ski area is out of action for now. What happened, and where you can still ski.
New lifts for 2026/27: what is happening on the building sites this summer
Zermatt is building the Patrullarve chairlift, a new access cableway is going up in the Trift, and Ischgl/Samnaun is investing 50 million. An overview of this summer’s construction work.
El Niño is back: what it means for the 2026/27 winter – and what it does not
The Pacific is running hot: +2.1 °C in the Niño index, and NOAA expects a strong El Niño event. What that climate signal is worth for the Alpine winter – an honest assessment.
Glacier situation in the hot July of 2026: what GLAMOS measures – and why it is serious
The glacier loss day fell on 29 June in 2026 – almost as early as in the record year 2022. What the measurements mean and what they imply for the ski autumn.
Where can you still ski in August 2026?
Update from 14 August: Stelvio is stopping too. Which makes the answer to the question in the title, from 15 August: nowhere. For the first time, no summer skiing is running anywhere in the Alps.