Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio
… 🧊 Glacier area
Photo: TheRunnerUp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Reopening on 4 September, 06:30 to 12:00
S.I.F.A.S. resumes skiing on the Gentili glacier on Friday 4 September 2026, daily from 06:30 to 12:00, citing the fallen temperatures. Operations had been suspended since 15 August. The short morning window is deliberate: it uses the state the night leaves behind.
As of 15 August 2026. Always check the current situation with the resort.Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio lies in the Südtirol region and is a small, family-run ski area: 20 kilometres of piste served by 8 lifts.
The area runs from 2757 to 3450 metres above sea level, giving around 693 metres of vertical. That takes the terrain above the 3,000-metre mark, which markedly improves snow reliability on the upper slopes.
Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio is one of the few areas in the Alps with skiing in summer: the season runs 30 May – 1 November, carried by the glacier.
An adult day pass costs EUR 48.
Of note: A pure summer ski area with no winter operation: the pass road is closed in winter. Since 10 August 2026 the only area in the Alps still skiing in high summer.
Snow report
Not currentThis reading is 23 days old and is not being updated automatically at the moment. Current figures are available from the SLF and from the resort itself.
Source: SLF / WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. A single measuring station, not the resort’s official piste report.
Piste map, map & webcams
Interactive piste map
Every piste and lift colour-coded by difficulty, zoomable, built on OpenStreetMap. Community-maintained data; where it differs, the official piste map next to it is authoritative.
Open on OpenSkiMap →Official piste map
The lift company’s drawn piste map, plus lift status and tickets.
passostelvio.it →Webcams
Live images from the mountain on the resort’s official site, usually several locations.
View webcams →Piste maps and webcam images belong to the lift companies and are protected by copyright. That is why we link directly to the original instead of copying it.
What sets this ski area apart
The Stilfser Joch, in Italian the Passo dello Stelvio, lies at 2757 metres on the border between South Tyrol and Lombardy. The pass road up from Prad, with its 48 numbered hairpins, counts among the most spectacular in the Alps and is closed in winter.
For us the pass is interesting for another reason: on the glacier above it, skiing still takes place in summer. That makes the Stelvio one of the very last summer ski areas in the Alps, and in our list the only one still open in August.
How it came about that almost everyone else gave up is set out on our glacier page and in the chronicle of closed summer ski areas.
Sources: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilfser_Joch
Frequently asked about Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio
How high is Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio?
The ski area runs from 2,757 to 3,450 metres above sea level, a vertical range of 693 metres. For snow reliability the lower figure matters more: that is where the snow disappears first, and where a mild December is felt before it is felt at the top.
How many kilometres of piste does Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio have?
20 kilometres on 8 lifts, according to the operator. There is no binding standard for measuring piste kilometres, so the figure is comparable between resorts only to a point. The lift count says at least as much about how big a place feels.
What does a day pass at Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio cost?
EUR 48 for an adult day pass at the standard rate, as of summer 2026. Booked early it is often less; on a peak Saturday it is not.
When is Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio open?
The usual season window is 30 May – 1 November. No starting date has been announced for winter 2026/27 yet. Most resorts commit only in the autumn, because a postponed opening costs more goodwill than a late announcement.
Does Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio have a glacier?
Yes. Glacier terrain makes the early season more reliable, because the snow layer is supported from below by ice. The summers since 2022 have shown that this is no longer a guarantee either: several Alpine glacier areas have given up summer skiing altogether.
Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio in the magazine
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.
Where this resort stands
Nearby ski areas
Distances are straight-line, not driving time. In the Alps a ridge between two valleys can turn 12 km into a two-hour drive.
Key figures
- Region
- South Tyrol
- Season
- 30 May – 1 November
- Kilometres of piste
- 20 km
- Elevation
- 2757 to 3450 m (693 m of vertical)
- Lifts
- 8
- Adult day pass
- around EUR 48 (guide value)
- Summer skiing
- yes
- Glacier
- yes
- Snow park
- rated 3/10
- Coordinates
- 46.529, 10.454
- Official website
- passostelvio.it
All values are guide figures still being verified. For day-to-day information, use the resort’s official website.