Expert advice, gear reviews, and destination guides for every skier.
Courchevel, Meribel and Val Thorens share the same 600 km, 166 lifts and €84.20 Les 3 Vallées pass: base altitude and access decide where to stay.
Mayrhofen (142 km, 630 to 2,500 m, €82) vs Sölden (144 km, 1,350 to 3,340 m, €86.50): terrain, altitude, season and price compared with data.
Zermatt: 322 km, CHF 96/day, top 3,883 m. Verbier: 410 km, CHF 92/day, top 3,330 m. Terrain, altitude, price per km and the verdict by skier type.
Mayrhofen vs Saalbach on real data: 142 vs 270 km, 23% vs 7% expert terrain, 1,870 vs 1,093 m vertical, both €82 a day. Which Austrian party resort suits your group.
Val Thorens: 600 km, base 2,300 m, €84.2 pass covers the lot. Tignes shares Espace Killy's 300 km with Val d'Isère, €68 buys only its own 150 km.
Vertical drop is the height difference between a ski resort's lowest and highest lift stations. What it tells you, what it hides, and the biggest verticals in our database of 251 resorts.
St. Anton vs Ischgl on real data: 305 vs 239 km, 43% vs 20% easy terrain, €85 vs €79 day passes, Dec to Apr vs Nov to May. Verdict by skier type.
How base, top and vertical relate to snow reliability, with Europe's highest ski resorts by top station: Zermatt and Cervinia 3,883 m, Chamonix 3,842 m.
The median ski resort has 119 km of pistes and 27% exceed 200 km. What piste kilometres, lift counts and vertical drop really mean, plus the linked-area caveat.
