Warm Weather Set to Hit Handful of Glacier Ski Areas Still Open in the Alps
High pressure will be dominating proceedings over the weekend and into next week with the freezing level at over 4,000m.
It will have an impact on the glacier ski slopes.
“Following a cooler than average first half of May with significant fresh snow at altitude, snow conditions up on the alpine glaciers are currently excellent,” said Fraser Wilkin from weathertoski.co.uk.
“However, the weather in the Alps is on the change, with high pressure bringing increasingly hot and sunny weather over the next few days.
“This will change snow conditions on the glaciers from relatively wintry (as seen in the last week or two) to more typical of mid-summer, with early hard snow quickly softening as the morning progresses, and plenty of slush by the middle of the day.”
There are currently five ski areas still open for glacier skiing:
- Les2Alpes, France
- Zermatt/Cervinia, Switzerland & Italy
- Hintertux, Austria
- Kitzsteinhorn, Austria
- Molltal, Austria
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The conditions have general been good for May with some decent falls of snow earlier in the month.
Les2Alpes. May 12th 2026. Image c/o Les2Alpes Tourist Office.
Les2Alpes. May 12th 2026. Image c/o Les2Alpes Tourist Office.
See here for a related PlanetSKI post on where you can go summer skiing this year:
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