Home to some of the world’s most spectacular mountain scenery (you can’t beat the Jungfrau), Europe’s highest lifts (at Zermatt), some of the world’s biggest ski areas (like the 4 Valleys around Verbier), the only ski area on the planet that opens its slopes 365 days a year, weather permitting (Zermatt again), the world’s original winter sports resort (St Moritz in 1864), peaceful, car-free resorts (like Saas Fee), some huge lift-served verticals, a wonderful public transport system (seamless from airport to resort) and great cheese and chocolate ... Switzerland is hard to beat.
Our guide to skiing in Switzerland
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The classic Swiss resort of Adelboden has a thoroughly modern outlook, with more than 200km of state-of-the-art ski runs and lots to do off the slopes, something for everyone.
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One of the classic Swiss resorts with a high-altitude, mid-sized, snow-sure, ski area popular for more than a century, almost half of which is given over to freeriding.
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Sunny slopes and spectacular viewed crowned by a 3000m high glacier make Crans Montana one of Switzerland’s most popular ski resorts. An ideal choice for groups with non-skiers thanks to over 150 shops and lots of alternative activities, as well as the 140km of piste.
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The small town of Davos is surrounded by a vast ski area, divided in to several sectors, the main one connected to Klosters. There are great facilities and the high lifts access a huge vertical and snow-sure slopes.
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Engelberg is a millennium old village with is ski slopes towering 2000 metres overhead, crowned by the Titlis glacier for snowsure skiing. It's quite a large resort now with excellent facilities off the slopes too.
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One of the biggest and coolest ski areas in Switzerland, Laax has built a reputation for snowboarding but has a huge, snowsure ski area all can enjoy. Laax resort itself is smaller than neighbouring Flims which shares the ski area and has the lion's share of off-slope facilities.
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Located in some of the most stunning mountain scenery in the world, Grindelwald is a classic resort where people have skied for more than a century, where lifts connect the slopes to nearby Wengen.
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Everything about Gstaad, from its name to (when you visit) its main street, scream ‘class’ and that means no in-your-face gaudy shops or towering concrete hotels but instead an understated opulence behind the dark wood traditional chalet-style buildings.
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Klosters ski resort offers the classic winter sports holiday experience, with a traditional Swiss village below and spectacular mountains towering several thousand metres above.
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Les Diablerets has the history, the scenery and the ski area - stretching for hundreds of kilometres towards Villars or above 3,000m to Glacier 3000 for guaranteed snow.
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Truly awe inspiring scenery, an unspoilt village and a century of British ski tradition – no wonder Mürren is recommended by James Bond.
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Cars have never made it in to Saas Fee, the villagers voted to ban them just as the road up was completed. A wise decision, it remains the most tranquil, as well as on of the most beautiful ski resorts on earth.
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Famously glitzy but actually just classy, beautiful St Moritz is the world's original ski resort, now at the heart of one of Switzerland's biggest ski regions.
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One of the world's best known ski areas, Verbier is popular with the rich and famous and located within Switzerland's biggest ski region, the 4 Valleys.
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Family-friendly Villars endeavours to offer the perfect ski holiday with good service, high quality facilities and a ski area of excellent proportions.
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Rail-accessed and car-free for more than a century, Wengen has one of the most awesome locations on earth and a great ski area too, linked to Grindelwald on the Jungfrau ticket.
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Europe's highest ski slopes are open all year round above one of the world's most successful resorts, car free Zermatt beneath the iconic Matterhorn, with its huge ski area extending over to Italy.