The world’s busiest ski resorts by skier visits

Nine linked ski areas across five countries, ranked by average annual skier visits — one person skiing for one day — over a five-season average ending 2019-20. Five areas tie the lead at about 2.5 million visits a year, so the visit totals matter more than the ordinal ranks, which merely break approximate ties.

Annual skier visits, five-season average to 2019-20

leading tier, ≈2.5 million visits second tier, ≈2.0 million visits

skier visits per year (millions) · bar length is proportional to visits; each drifting dot marks one live bar

Where the top nine sit

Austria/Switzerland is a cross-border category: the Ischgl–Samnaun Silvretta Arena straddles the two countries and is counted separately from either.

What the bars cannot say alone

The lead is a five-way tie: areas in Italy, Austria, France and Canada all sit at about 2.5 million skier visits, so ranks 1 through 5 order equals. snowbrains.com

Austria places three areas in the top nine — more than any other single country — for a combined 7 million skier visits a year, before counting its shared border area with Switzerland. snowbrains.com

Whistler Blackcomb is the only non-European entry, matching the Alpine leaders at about 2.5 million visits from a single North American mountain pairing. snowbrains.com

These figures compare linked ski areas whose boundaries are drawn differently by different operators, and they are a pre-pandemic five-season average — not a live 2025-26 attendance table. snowbrains.com

The nine rows

Rank	Resort / linked ski area	Country	Skier visits / yr	Source

Data: worldwide ranking of the nine busiest ski resorts by average annual skier visits (one person skiing one day), a five-season average ending 2019-20, from SnowBrains. 9 resort rows plus a 5-row country summary; the country summary’s combined-visit totals and best ranks arrive precomputed from the source. Ordinal ranks break approximate ties, so visit totals are the meaningful comparison. Linked-ski-area boundaries differ across operators; the figures are pre-pandemic averages, not current attendance. This is the strongest comparable global attendance ranking found, not a universal definition of popularity. Nothing was cut for space.