A new ranking table has been released by Altitude Ski School revealing the best skiing locations.
Jon West, Altitude Ski School Director said, “To make sure people truly enjoy their skiing getaway, we knew we had to do a deep dive into everything that can make or break a ski trip. We hope that we save people some time on their research, and also help them to avoid any nasty surprises!”
The ski and snowboard school has analysed the following aspects to find the best location for skiing:
• When is the ski season
• Hours of Sunshine
• Highest point of resort
• Kilometres of slopes
• Average snowfall
• Average cost of a day pass
• Number of Lifts and Gondolas
Compiling all of the data, they gave each location a number out of 84 to be able to rank them by their overall number – giving you all the info you need.
In first place was Breckenridge, Colorado. The Rocky Mountains ski resort earned 66 points out of 84, with 36 lifts/gondolas, 153km of slopes and 782.32cm of snowfall.
In second place is Verbier, Switzerland. Open 10 months out the year, Verbier earned 63 out of 84 points and is the largest ski area located in Switzerland with 412km of slopes – thanks to being made up of Verbier, Bruson, La Tzoumaz, Nendaz, Veysonnaz and Thyon.
748cm of snowfall occurs here, however it gets over 1000 fewer hours of sunlight than Colorado.
In third place is Sierra Nevada, Spain. Ranking with 54 out of 84 points, the third highest peak of Spain has much less snowfall with 22cm on average thanks to being the most southerly ski resort in Europe.
However, 107km of slopes can be found here.
In fourth and fifth place is Madonna di Campiglio, Italy and Shiga Kogen, Japan, respectively.
The Italian slopes earned 53 points out of 84 in Altitude’s ranking and is home to 150km of slopes. With less sunshine than the top spot by 800 hours, the Italian resort redeems itself thanks to the modern and efficient lift systems with 89 lifts/gondolas.
The Japanese slopes earned the same amount of points and has star quality thanks to hosting the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998. Visitors can expect to find 51 lifts/gondolas and could catch one of the 1895 hours of sunshines.
