Zermatt
Switzerland
The Matterhorn, year-round glacier skiing, and a car-free village that is among the loveliest in the Alps.
Village 1,608m · top 3,883m
74
/ 100
Very snow-sure
Christmas Chalets in Switzerland
The most dramatic mountains in the Alps, glacier skiing that opens whatever December does, and prices to match.
Switzerland is where you go when the view matters as much as the skiing. Zermatt beneath the Matterhorn and Saas-Fee ringed by thirteen four-thousand-metre peaks are the two most spectacular places to wake up on Christmas morning anywhere in this guide.
It is also the most snow-sure country here, for a reason that has nothing to do with luck: Zermatt and Saas-Fee both have year-round glacier skiing, so there is lift-served snow in December regardless of what the valley is doing. Verbier has the 4 Vallées and the liveliest nights of the three. What you pay for all of this is the highest cost of a week in the Alps — a Christmas in Switzerland is typically a third more than the same week in France.
Resorts in Switzerland
Ranked by our Christmas Snow Score.
Saas-Fee
Switzerland
A car-free village at 1,800m ringed by thirteen four-thousand-metre peaks, with glacier skiing above it.
Village 1,798m · top 3,457m
71
/ 100
Very snow-sure
Verbier
Switzerland
Serious off-piste, a sunny south-facing balcony, and the liveliest nights in Switzerland.
Village 1,490m · top 3,329m
57
/ 100
Usually reliable
Chalets in Switzerland you can book now
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Chalets in Switzerland
No chalets listed for Switzerland yet
Our partners list nothing for Switzerland for Christmas 2027. Where a feature is missing it often means no partner publishes it rather than that no chalet has it, so it is worth checking a resort directly.
The Build my Christmas planner narrows the resorts to the handful that suit your group, and every resort page carries its Christmas Snow Score and how it was worked out.
Common questions
When is Christmas week in the Switzerland Alps?
Alpine chalets almost all change over on a Saturday, so Christmas week runs Saturday to Saturday with Christmas Day falling mid-week. The dates for the season you are looking at are shown on every resort page, and they move each year — which is why no page on this site has a year in its address.