Ski pass prices 2026/2027: how much more you pay this winter

In short

• A six-day ski pass costs an average of €388 this winter, against €375 last season.
• The average increase is 3.4 per cent – the smallest in years.
• The ticket-office price is increasingly a ceiling rather than a price: book early and online and you will often pay a good deal less.

What the rise costs you in euros

In euros, a six-day pass costs an average of €388 this winter against €375 last season. That is a little over twelve euros more per person. For a family of four it adds up to around fifty euros extra, and that is before you have driven a mile, booked a bed or hired a pair of skis. Even so, the average tells you very little about your own trip. The gap between resorts is wide, and it comes down to size, modernity, comfort, location, snow reliability and a good deal more. What matters to you is what the pass costs in the resort you are actually going to.

Switzerland hits the brakes, Germany does the opposite

The clearest pattern in this year's figures is geographical. Line the five ski countries up and the difference is unmistakable.

Not every Swiss resort has put its prices up

Three of the Swiss resorts we checked – the Jungfrau Ski Region, Arosa Lenzerheide and Les 4 Vallées – are charging exactly what they charged last year. Davos Klosters adds one per cent, Saas-Fee one and a half. After years as the expensive outlier, Switzerland is now the country tinkering least with its prices. In absolute terms it is still the dearest: an average of €432 for six days.

Why would a resort freeze its price?

We put that question to Arosa Lenzerheide. The answer was matter-of-fact: they simply do not raise prices every year. The resort looks at more than its costs alone and tries, for instance, to find efficiencies in its own operation so that an increase is not needed. With a warning attached: skipping a year, or two, does not mean the price has stopped moving. It can just as easily mean the jump comes harder the following season.

That is useful context for the whole exercise. A standstill is not a promise, and a year at 3.4 per cent says little about the year after it. Follow prices across several seasons and you see resorts raising them in blocks rather than a little at a time.

Germany goes the other way

The Hörnerdörfer put their price up more than any other resort in the study: from €230.00 to €246.50, a rise of 7.2 per cent. Oberstdorf-Kleinwalsertal, which straddles the German-Austrian border, is well above average too at 6.1 per cent. Even Winterberg, the cheapest resort in the whole study, raises its prices by 4.7 per cent. That sounds contradictory: Germany rises the most and is the cheapest. Both are true, and the two are connected. The German resorts here are small and start from a low base. Winterberg adds ten euros and that is already 4.7 per cent, while Sölden adds €27.50 to reach 6.1 per cent. Small resorts also have fewer lifts to spread their costs across, and their snow more often has to come out of a snow cannon.

Where you pay the most

Sölden is the most expensive resort in this year's study: €478.50 for six days in high season.

1. Sölden: €478.50
2. Ski Arlberg: €468.00
3. Tignes-Val d'Isère: €468.00
4. Dolomiti Superski: €453.00
5. Skirama Dolomiti: €452.00

If you want to spend as little as possible, the smaller German resorts are the place to look. Skiliftkarussell Winterberg is the cheapest of the lot at €224.00. For a little over half what Sölden charges you get six days on the snow. Behind it come the Hörnerdörfer (€246.50), Les Sybelles (€307.20) and Alpen Plus (€309.00).

Want to ski more cheaply still? That is possible too, in smaller and less well-known resorts.

The ticket-office price is turning into a ceiling

This is probably the most important shift of recent years. We have consistently measured the same thing: what you pay if you walk up to the ticket office and buy your pass. For a long time that was a fair yardstick, because it was simply the price. At a growing number of resorts it has become an upper limit instead.

Arosa Lenzerheide is a good example. The resort holds its rate neatly at CHF 401.00, exactly what it charged last year, and that is what we record. Yet in its own web shop the same six-day pass was on sale from CHF 281.00 in mid-September. A difference of a good thirty per cent, with no percentage stated anywhere. All the resort will say is that the earlier you buy, the more attractive the price. And of course the period you ski in moves the price as well. In other words: the prices are dynamic.

Sölden works the same way, stating in black and white on its own price list that from four days before your ski day the regular ticket-office price applies. At Schladming-Dachstein the online price runs from €367.50 up to €432.50 depending on when you buy. Bormio gives up to 25 per cent off for booking early. Set against them are resorts that still do it the old-fashioned way, where booking online saves you nothing at all.

In short: in Switzerland the ticket-office price is standing still – but it is increasingly the price almost nobody actually pays.

Ski pass prices 2026/2027 in full

Here are this winter’s ski pass prices and the difference against last season, sorted by percentage increase.

How to actually save on your ski pass

1. Book early and online:
   By far the biggest saving. At Grand Massif early booking can be worth up to 30 per cent on passes of six days or more. Ski amadé, which includes Schladming-Dachstein, brings the online price down to €367.50 against €432.50 at the ticket office – a difference of €65. At Les Portes du Soleil the pass is €352.00 online as standard against €373.00 at the window, and booking early takes another 15 per cent off that.
2. Go as a family or a group:
   At L'Alpe d'Huez a family pass costs €264.00 per person instead of €336.50, almost €73 less a head. In Les Trois Vallées the Family Flex is €345.00 rather than €421.00, though you need at least one child aged 5 to 17 and a party of three. Les 2 Alpes has a Pack Famille (€313.00) and a Pack Tribu for groups (€318.00).
3. Shift to the shoulder weeks:
   The gap between high and low season is usually wider than the annual increase. At Sulden am Ortler the Advent week costs €209.50 against €331.00 in high season, a difference of €121.50. At Bormio the early-December promotional period is €226.00 instead of €342.00. At Ski Arlberg the Wedel and Sonnenski weeks cost €395 rather than €468.
4. Ask about the guest card:
   At Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis you get one automatically when you stay overnight, and the pass then costs €403.00 instead of €429.00. With the Top Snow Card the guest card is worth around 10 per cent, from four days and in three defined periods.
5. Book a package holiday:
   Book a package through a tour operator and the pass is often included. Outside the busiest weeks in particular, that is where the best deals tend to be.

Ski pass prices: your questions answered

How we measured this

We compare exactly the same thing at every resort: a ski pass for six consecutive days, for one adult, in high season, at the regular price at the ticket office. Swiss prices are left in Swiss francs so that exchange-rate swings do not distort the picture. They have been converted only for the euro average, at the rate of 16 September 2026 (1 Swiss franc = €1.06).

Online prices, early-booking discounts, guest-card rates, family and group prices and promotional rates do not count as the ticket-office price, though they are noted as possible savings. Where a resort uses dynamic pricing we take the official ticket-office price or the regular reference rate, and say so. Every amount has been checked on the resort's own website, official ticket shop or official price list.

All 36 prices were checked again in full in September 2026. Not every resort has a high season: several charge a single rate for the whole winter, and there the price quoted is simply the only price.