Val d’Isere Is Open for Summer Skiing
5th June 2025
Last modified on June 16th, 2025
The French resort opened for summer glacier skiing earlier this month. There are five glacier ski areas currently open in the Alps, but the hot weather is taking its toll. UPDATED
Val d’Isere has a month-long summer season with skiing on offer on its Pisaillas glacier for four weeks from Saturday June 7th to Sunday July 6th if conditions allow.
Skiing is possible on three runs between 3,300m and 2,725m, with another four runs reserved for race team training.
“We’ve had some fresh snow up there today and into tonight too,” said PlanetSKI reader Steve Angus from Val d’Isere as the resort opened.
There are several more comments from readers on the PlanetSKI Facebook page.
Summer skiing on the glacier has been taking place since the late 1960s.
Summer skiing in Val d’Isere. Image c/o Val d’Isere.
The lift ticket office is at the base of the glacier with the Cascade restaurant also open in the car park area by the lower lift station.
Bonne nouvelle : le col de l’Iseran est ouvert ! La légendaire route entre Tarentaise et Maurienne est de nouveau praticable 🏔️ À vous les escapades en voiture, en moto… ou à vélo ! 🚗🏍️🚴♂️ pic.twitter.com/ac9YQfPV3s
— Val d’Isère (@valdisere) June 6, 2025
Neighbouring Tignes has four weeks of operations planned from 21st June to 20th July.
The Grande Motte glacier has slopes at an altitude of nearly 3,000 m.
Up to 20 km of glacier runs are available between 3,456 m and 2,724 m.
The Italian resort of Passo Stelvio has opened for the summer.
The Passo al Livrio cable car and two drag lifts, Payer and Cristallo, are operating.
Other lifts are currently out of action but the area is offering cat-skiing to access some of the terrain normally served by the non-operational lifts.
Summer skiing in Passo Stelvio. Image credit: Outdoor Studio
Areas now open in the Alps:
Austria: Hintertux
France: Les 2 Alps & Val d’Isere
Italy: Passo Stelvio & Cervinia (shared with Zermatt)
Switzerland: Zermatt (shared with Cervinia)
The freezing level in the Alps is set to rise over the next week to over 4,000m as Europe is hit by a summer heatwave.
This is having an impact on the glacier conditions.
In Scandinavia two of Norway’s three glacier ski areas remain open.
- Galdhøpiggen Summer Ski Area (40/120 cm) is fully open.
- Stryn Glacier (120/200 cm) is also open.
The situation in Fonna remains unclear as the new operators have not yet stated when summer skiing may start.
In the southern hemisphere, resorts in Australia have opened with some great snow conditions.
Mt Hutt in New Zealand opened on Friday 13th June.
See here for a roundup of when and where the best snow conditions are in Australia and New Zealand:
In South America Ski Portillo in Chile has announced its opening day – June 21st.
It hopes to stay open until September 27th, conditions and weather permitting.
If you want to keep up to date with summer skiing across the globe then do check back.
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