Which Alpine resorts are most snow-sure at Christmas

Top figure is Mittelallalin, reached by the Metro Alpin funicular.

Top figure is the Klein Matterhorn station, the highest lift-served point of any resort we cover.

Top figure is Mont Fort, the high point of the 4 Vallées.

Top figure is the Piz Nair cable car top station on Corviglia; the Piz Nair summit is 3,057 m. Piste kilometres are the tourist office's figure for Corviglia. Corvatsch (a separate area on the Engadin pass) reaches higher.

Top figure is the Weissfluh summit on the Parsenn, which links Davos and Klosters. Piste kilometres cover the five Davos Klosters Mountains areas, which are not all linked by piste.

The top figure is the Valluga I top station (2,650 m), the highest lift point on the pistes; the Valluga summit above it is reached by a small cabin and skied only with a guide.

Arc 1600, the lowest of the four villages; Arc 2000 is the highest.

The village figure is Klosters Platz; the top figure is the Weissfluhgipfel, reached by cable car above the Weissfluhjoch, and the piste figure is the Parsenn alone, the area Klosters shares with Davos via the Gotschnabahn. Madrisa, Klosters' own family mountain, is not lift-linked to the Parsenn and adds its own slopes on the same Davos Klosters pass.

Top figure is the Lauberhorn chairlift top station, the high point of the Grindelwald–Wengen ski area Wengen shares with Grindelwald over Kleine Scheidegg and the Männlichen. Piste kilometres are not given for this area alone; the Jungfrau Ski Region total of 211 km includes Mürren–Schilthorn, which is not linked by piste.

Ski area figure is Alta Badia.

Montchavin, the lowest of La Plagne's eleven villages; the higher ones sit between roughly 1,800 m and 2,100 m.

Courchevel Le Praz, the lowest of the villages; the principal village, Courchevel 1850, sits considerably higher.

Altitude is the commune of Badia, which La Villa sits within. Ski area figure is Alta Badia.

Altitude is the commune of Badia, which San Cassiano sits within. Ski area figure is Alta Badia.

Ski area figure is the Via Lattea, which Montgenèvre is part of.

Top figure is the Gamsleitenbahn 2 top station, which the lift operator gives as the highest lift-served point of the Obertauern ski area; the 2,526 m sometimes quoted is the highest point of the surrounding terrain, not a lift. Piste kilometres are the regional tourist board's figure of just over 100 km for the whole Tauernrunde area, which is one self-contained ring of lifts around the pass.

The lowest of the linked villages along the valley.

Top figure is the Altavista chairlift on the Carosello 3000 side, which the resort gives as the highest point accessible on skis. Piste kilometres cover Carosello 3000, Mottolino and Sitas.

The town itself. Chamonix's ski areas are separate and reached by lift or bus.

The tourist board gives the ski area as running from about 1,500 m on the plateau to about 3,000 m, with around 140 km of marked pistes. The top figure here is the upper station of the Violettes–Plaine Morte funitel on the glacier, which the board rounds to 3,000 m.

Ski area figure is the Portes du Soleil, which Les Gets is linked into (as for Morzine). Piste kilometres and snowmaking are for the Les Gets–Morzine area.

Ski area figure is the Grand Massif, which Les Carroz is part of.

Top figure is the Tiefenbachkogl, reached by the Tiefenbach gondola; the Schwarze Schneid viewing platform stands higher at 3,340 m but is a walk of about 90 vertical metres above its gondola station.

Top figure is the Oberjoch in the Grindelwald–First area, which the lift company gives as 2,500 m. The Kleine Scheidegg–Männlichen area, shared with Wengen, tops out at the Lauberhorn chairlift (2,394 m). Piste kilometres are not given per area; the Jungfrau Ski Region total of 211 km includes Mürren–Schilthorn.

Ski area figure is Ski Arlberg, which Lech shares with St Anton, Zürs and Warth. The top figure is the Valluga I top station (2,650 m), the highest lift point on the pistes; the Valluga summit above it is reached by a small cabin and skied only with a guide.

Top figure is the Tirol tourist board's upper altitude for the Mayrhofen ski area (Penken, Ahorn, Rastkogel and Eggalm). Skiing does not return to the village; the gondolas are ridden down.

The village is low; the skiing is reached by cable car to Samoëns 1600 and is part of the Grand Massif.

The altitude is for Sainte-Foy Station, the ski resort built at the hamlet of Bonconseil. The historic village of Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise, the chef-lieu, sits lower in the Isère valley at around 813 m, a drive below the lifts.

Top figure is Cresta d'Arp, the highest lift of the Courmayeur ski area; Skyway Monte Bianco to Punta Helbronner is a separate cable car for sightseeing and off-piste, not part of the pistes.

Top figure is the tourist board's upper altitude for the KitzSki Kitzbühel–Kirchberg area. Piste kilometres are the groomed slopes; the headline figure of 233 km includes ski routes.

Top figure is the Schattberg West summit, the highest lift-served point of the Skicircus, which links Saalbach Hinterglemm with Leogang and Fieberbrunn. Piste kilometres are for the whole Skicircus.

Ski area figure is the Portes du Soleil, which Châtel is linked into; Châtel's own area (Châtel Liberté) tops out at 2,200 m. Piste kilometres are for Châtel Liberté.

Ski area figure is the Évasion Mont-Blanc area, which the Megève lift pass covers; piste kilometres are the lift company's figure for the same area.

The resort's own site gives the ski area as 1,100–2,600 m; the top figure used here is the French Wikipedia ski-station infobox. Snowmaking is the share of piste area equipped (ClimSnow study).

Top figure is the summit of the Schmittenhöhe, Zell am See's own ski mountain, and the 77 km are the Schmitten pistes alone. The Kitzsteinhorn glacier above Kaprun is a separate area reached by ski bus on the shared Ski ALPIN CARD; the zellamseeXpress gondola does link the Schmitten by lift to the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn.