Holidu, a search engine for holiday rentals, has released its ski resort price index for the 2026-2027 season, ranking 265 European resorts that offer at least 20 kilometres of slopes.

The ranking, as reported by aol.co.uk, combined median nightly holiday-rental prices per person with adult one-day lift-pass prices, across a high-season window of 21-27 December 2026 and a low-season window of 22-28 March 2027.

The result is a striking divide: nine of the 10 least expensive resorts are in France, while Switzerland, Austria and Italy dominate the most expensive end of the list.

At the budget extreme, Roubion les Buisses in the Alpes-Maritimes came in at €40.50 per day, while at the luxury end Zermatt costs €303.86 per day — meaning a week at the wrong resort could cost more than seven times as much.

The gap between the two ends of Holidu's ranking is far wider than most skiers might expect, and aol.co.uk's write-up highlights how much destination choice alone determines the price of a ski week.

Zermatt, which rose three places to take the top spot from Austria's Obergurgl-Hochgurgl, charges €111.28 for a high-season daily lift pass and a median €244 per person per night in accommodation at the foot of the Matterhorn.

Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo, just months after hosting the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, costs €290.50 per day, with accommodation reaching €308 per person per night in high season.

Meanwhile, the French budget leaders charge lift passes as low as €20 and beds from €13 in low season — figures that make the same sport feel like two entirely different products.

According to the ranking, Roubion les Buisses, an hour from Nice, costs €40.50 a day with 30 kilometres of slopes, a €20 lift pass in both seasons, and accommodation from €15 to €26 per night.

Réallon in the Hautes-Alpes, above Lake Serre-Ponçon, follows at €42.95, with some beds as cheap as €13 in low season and a lift pass of €24-€29.90.

Gresse en Vercors, 45 minutes from Grenoble, ranks third at €49.00 and draws families and cross-country skiers with around 50 kilometres of Nordic trails.

On the expensive side, aol.co.uk lists Zermatt first at €303.86, Cortina d'Ampezzo second at €290.50, and Gitschberg Jochtal in South Tyrol third at €271.50, known for panoramic platforms with views of some 500 peaks.

For travelers planning the 2026-2027 season, the index suggests timing matters as much as geography.

aol.co.uk notes that in Zermatt a low-season visit drops the lift pass to €98.44 and accommodation to €154 per night, while Cortina's low-season prices fall to €113 — almost a third of the high-season figure. The budget French resorts offer less seasonal swing but stay cheap throughout.

The findings sit alongside other affordability reporting this week: Yahoo's travel coverage points to Poland as an idyllic winter getaway where the dollar stretches far, with Eurostat placing its price levels at 73% of the EU average and Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk all ranking in the top 15 of the 2026 U.K. Post Office City Costs Barometer.

Together, the two outlets frame a season in which value-seeking skiers and city-breakers have unusually clear data to work with.