26 places worth checking
Not a database dump: a curated set of destination files. Each one explains why that mountain gets snow, when its season runs, and reads the live model at its real elevations.
Europe
13 DESTINATIONS
Zermatt
Switzerland · 1620–3883 m
Car-free village under the Matterhorn with the highest lift-served terrain in the Alps.
Chamonix
France · 1035–3842 m
The birthplace of extreme skiing.
Val Thorens
France · 2300–3230 m
Purpose-built, treeless, and utterly snow-sure: the reliability play of the Trois Vallées.
Verbier
Switzerland · 1500–3330 m
The freeride benchmark of the Four Vallées: itineraries like the Tortin moguls need real coverage, so fresh-snow numbers matter more here than groomed-piste resorts..
St. Anton am Arlberg
Austria · 1304–2811 m
Austria's serious-skier capital: long, storm-fed off-piste runs and a snowfall climatology that punches far above its modest summit height..
Kitzbühel
Austria · 800–2000 m
Home of the Hahnenkamm.
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Italy · 1224–2930 m
Olympic host with pink-tinged limestone walls.
Livigno
Italy · 1816–2900 m
Duty-free village with two ski faces and reliable cold.
Åre
Sweden · 380–1274 m
Scandinavia's biggest alpine resort.
Levi
Finland · 205–531 m
Finnish Lapland's World Cup slalom hill.
Zakopane / Kasprowy Wierch
Poland · 1000–1987 m
Poland's winter capital.
Jasná – Chopok
Slovakia · 943–2004 m
The largest ski area between the Alps and the Caucasus, with real freeride zones off Chopok.
Bansko
Bulgaria · 990–2600 m
The Balkans' flagship resort: a medieval town at the base, one gondola to a high alpine bowl.
North America
7 DESTINATIONS
Whistler Blackcomb
Canada · 652–2284 m
North America's biggest ski area.
Aspen Snowmass
United States · 2470–3813 m
Four mountains, one lift ticket, and the benchmark for Colorado cold-smoke.
Park City
United States · 2080–3049 m
The largest lift-served area in the US, minutes from a major city.
Jackson Hole
United States · 1924–3185 m
America's serious mountain: Corbet's Couloir, big verticals, consequential terrain.
Mammoth Mountain
United States · 2424–3369 m
California's high-altitude outlier: seasons swing from lean to absurd (20 m+ in record winters).
Lake Louise
Canada · 1646–2637 m
Banff National Park's big-views resort.
Palisades Tahoe
United States · 1890–2760 m
Olympic heritage and granite chutes above Lake Tahoe.
Asia
2 DESTINATIONS
Niseko United
Japan · 255–1188 m
The world's most reliable powder.
Hakuba Valley
Japan · 760–1831 m
Ten resorts under 3,000 m peaks, Nagano's Olympic terrain.
Southern Hemisphere
4 DESTINATIONS
Valle Nevado
Chile · 2860–3670 m
South America's most modern ski area, a June–October counter-season classic.
Las Leñas
Argentina · 2240–3430 m
Legendary steep terrain off the Marte chair, the southern hemisphere's freeride pilgrimage.
Coronet Peak
New Zealand · 1187–1649 m
Queenstown's local mountain, 25 minutes from town, famous for night skiing.
Perisher
Australia · 1720–2034 m
The southern hemisphere's largest ski area, spread over four villages.