Four Glaciers Areas in Alps Open as Fresh Snow Falls
8th July 2025
Last modified on July 13th, 2025
The glacier resort of Hintertux in Austria has seen some fresh snow at altitude.
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Up to 25cm is reported to have fallen at Hintertux this week.
The glacier resort of Passo Stelvio in Italy has also seen some snow.
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Snow has been falling elsewhere at altitude in the Alps as the temperatures have dropped.
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Les2Alpes and Val d’Isere closed their summer skiing operations last weekend on Sunday July 6th.
The Swiss resort of Saas-Fee is set to open for summer skiing next weekend on July 19th and preparations are underway for its summer ski and snowboard season.
Tignes was the last resort to open part if its ski area as it fired up some lifts on June 21st.
Its neighbour Val d’Isere opened earlier in June as we reported at the time.
Tignes has four weeks of operations planned from 21st June through 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 3,456m and 2,724m.
The lifts run daily until early afternoon, though the situation is dependent on the snow and weather conditions.
Areas now open in the Alps:
Austria: Hintertux
France: Tignes
Italy: Passo Stelvio & Cervinia (shared with Zermatt)
Switzerland: Zermatt (shared with Cervinia)
The freezing level in the Alps rose to well over 4,000m at the end of June/beginning of July as Europe was hit by a heatwave.
It was the first time that June had seen the entire Alpine range above 0C (32F).
The weather station at Colle Major (4,750m) on Mt Blanc recorded a maximum of +3.7°C on Saturday June 28th.
In Switzerland the government declared the second-highest danger level for large parts of the country.
The temperatures across the Alps are having a significant impact on the summer glacier skiing conditions but no resort has had to shut.
See here for some PlanetSKI reports on summer skiing and what else is on offer:
- PlanetSKI goes summer glacier skiing
- Glacier skiing: go while you still can
- Summer skiing in Les2Alpes: A sports lover’s dream
- Top resorts in the Alps for summer skiing
In Scandinavia two of Norway’s glacier ski areas remain open.
- Galdhøpiggen Summer Ski Area (40/120 cm) is fully open.
- Stryn Glacier (120/200 cm) is also open.
We will be updating this report with the current conditions in the southern hemisphere shortly.
If you want to keep up to date with summer skiing across the globe then do check back…
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