Zermatt snow report
Car-free village under the Matterhorn with the highest lift-served terrain in the Alps. Altitude, not luck, is what keeps Zermatt's season long: even in a lean winter the upper mountain holds.
Switzerland · Europe · live from the weather model at 1620–3883 m
Conditions right now
Read at summit elevation the moment you opened this page.
Hourly windows, accumulation ranges, confidence and travel flags, or the transparent 0–100 Ski Meter score.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), adapted for display. Elevations are approximate published figures; forecasts are model estimates, not guarantees.
The mountain right now
The live freezing level drawn on the elevation profile. Above the snow line, precipitation falls and stays as snow.
Terrain shape is schematic; elevations are the resort's approximate published figures.
Why it snows here
The Matterhorn Glacier Paradise tops out near 3,900 m, high enough that storms which fall as rain in the valleys almost always arrive as snow up top.
Reading Zermatt like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Zermatt is the difference between the base (1620 m) and the summit (3883 m): when the freezing level sits between the two, the mountain is split into rain or wet snow below and dry snow above. The Ski Meter reads the model at both elevations and scores the day with every point accounted for; the full report adds hourly timing, accumulation ranges and confidence tags so you can decide when to travel, not just whether.