Swiss ski areas: glacier conditions, snow reports, summer skiing, lift projects and prices.https://deinskigebiet.ch/enhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/saas-fee-stops-summer-skiing-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/saas-fee-stops-summer-skiing-2026/9 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.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTGletscherhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/alpine-weather-outlook-august-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/alpine-weather-outlook-august-2026/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.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSommerskihttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/cost-of-machine-made-snow/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/cost-of-machine-made-snow/65 gigawatt hours of electricity and 13 billion litres of water per winter in Switzerland. We broke the figures down to a single kilometre of piste, cross-checked them – and found a contradiction the industry itself concedes.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTKlimahttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/cost-of-skiing-in-switzerland/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/cost-of-skiing-in-switzerland/Day passes from CHF 40 to 95, median 57. What a ski day really costs once you add travel and food, where you get the most piste per franc, and which discounts are worth it. Numbers from all 85 resorts.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPreisehttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/hintertux-ends-year-round-skiing/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/hintertux-ends-year-round-skiing/Austria's only 365-day ski area closed from mid-July in 2026. The retreat played out over four summers and shows how these endings actually happen: not with an announcement, but with ever longer pauses.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTGletscherhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/swiss-ski-resort-opening-dates-2026-27/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/swiss-ski-resort-opening-dates-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.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSaisonhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/why-zermatt-closed-and-saas-fee-did-not/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/why-zermatt-closed-and-saas-fee-did-not/Zermatt reaches 3,899 m and shut down first. Saas-Fee tops out at 3,600 m and lasted longer; the Stelvio Pass at 3,450 m is the only one still running. Why the altitude figure everyone quotes is the wrong number, and which three factors actually decide it.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTGletscherhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/european-heatwave-summer-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/european-heatwave-summer-2026/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.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTKlimahttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/record-snowstorm-andes-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/record-snowstorm-andes-2026/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.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSüdhalbkugelhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/southern-hemisphere-ski-season-august-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/southern-hemisphere-ski-season-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.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSüdhalbkugelhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/weather-versus-climate/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/weather-versus-climate/Record snow in Chile, record heat in Europe – both in the same month. Why that is not a contradiction, what separates weather from climate, and how to tell whether a claim is serious.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTKlimahttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/zermatt-stops-summer-skiing-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/zermatt-stops-summer-skiing-2026/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.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGletscherhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/chronicle-of-closed-summer-ski-areas/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/chronicle-of-closed-summer-ski-areas/In the 1980s the lifts were running in July on more than 20 Alpine glaciers. Today there are three. The chronicle of a quiet disappearance – from Laax in 1992 to the Kitzsteinhorn in 2023.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGletscherhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/flumserberg-resort-portrait/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/flumserberg-resort-portrait/65 kilometres of piste high above Lake Walen, an hour from Zurich, and a resort you can ski in full in a single day. Why Flumserberg is more than a fallback option.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPorträthttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/new-lifts-2026-27/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/new-lifts-2026-27/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTUmbautenhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/season-start-outlook-2026-27/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/season-start-outlook-2026-27/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSaisonhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/swiss-glacier-conditions-july-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/swiss-glacier-conditions-july-2026/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGletscherhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/swiss-season-pass-comparison-2026-27/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/swiss-season-pass-comparison-2026-27/Magic Pass from CHF 419, dynamic pricing everywhere: an overview of Switzerland’s season pass landscape – and the three rules that make early buying work.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPreisehttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/the-collapse-summer-of-2022/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/the-collapse-summer-of-2022/Around 6 per cent of Swiss glacier ice disappeared in a single year. 2022 was the summer that broke summer skiing – the anatomy of an extreme year.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGletscherhttps://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/where-to-ski-in-august-2026/https://deinskigebiet.ch/en/magazine/where-to-ski-in-august-2026/Update from 6 August: after Zermatt, Saas-Fee is stopping too, with 9 August the last day. That leaves only the Stelvio Pass in the Alps. Where the lifts are running and what you need to know.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSommerski