Christmas Chalets in Austria

Traditional villages that were there before the lifts, generally lower than the high French resorts.

35 chalets in Austria available for Christmas week when we last checked on 12 October 2026, from £1,796 for the week.

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Available for Christmas week in Austria

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One chalet in each of the first resorts we cover in Austria, available for Christmas week when we last checked.

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If the picture in your head when you think of Christmas in the mountains involves a church spire, a market square and snow on timber balconies, you are thinking of Austria. The villages are villages: they existed before the lifts did.

Altitude is the thing to watch. Austrian resorts generally sit lower than the French Tarentaise, so Christmas snow is less of a given in the valley, and the ones that reliably deliver are the high ones: Obergurgl at 1,930 metres, Ischgl's Silvretta Arena, and the Arlberg's upper villages. Lower down, the skiing is often excellent and the walk home is prettier, but December cover depends more on the year.

Resorts in Austria

Ranked by our Christmas Snow Score.

Chalets in Austria you can book now

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Flights, car hire and flight + hotel for Christmas week in Austria

For each resort: the airport these links fly into (one of the usual airports for that resort), and a live search for 19 Dec – 26 Dec 2026 from London. Prices and availability are on the partner’s site.

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Chalets in Austria

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Common questions

Which Austrian ski resort is most snow-sure at Christmas?

Of the Austrian resorts we cover, St Anton am Arlberg scores highest on our Christmas Snow Score, at 68 out of 100, followed by Obergurgl at 67. The score rates how reliably a resort tends to have skiable snow in Christmas week, mostly from how often there has been snow on Christmas morning at weather stations since 1996; it is not a forecast, and no resort can promise snow.

When is Christmas week in the Austrian Alps?

Alpine chalets almost all change over on a Saturday, so Christmas week runs Saturday to Saturday with Christmas Day falling mid-week. For the season shown on this page that is 19 Dec – 26 Dec 2026. The dates move each year, which is why no page on this site has a year in its address.

Christmas elsewhere in the Alps