ATLAS · SKI RESORTS
Every Ski Resort on Earth
The world’s ski areas on one map: 3,566 of them, across 65countries — not a ranking but a living density map of where the world skis. Pulled back, the clusters glow from cool to hot by how many resorts they hold; the brightest blooms sit over the Alps, the Japanese mountains and the North American ranges, with United States alone holding around 592. Zoom in and each blue dot is a single resort — tap it for its name and country. Data is from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), a snapshot taken 2026-06-24.
What the colours mean
At a world view, the colours are about density— each cluster is tinted by how many ski areas it contains, from a cool teal lone hill up through green, blue, gold and amber to a blazing red where hundreds gather over the Alps. That is the headline: where the world skis. Zoom in and the clusters break apart into single charge-blue dots, one per resort; tap any of them for its name and country.
We colour by density rather than by size, elevation or piste type because those details are recorded for only a small fraction of the world’s ski areas in open data — so density is the honest, always-present story, and we don’t invent a split the map can’t support. How a “ski resort” gets mapped at all is worth a couple of minutes:
How the world’s ski areas are mapped, explained →Where resorts cluster
The countries with the most ski areas — a mix of genuine alpine density and how thoroughly each country is mapped in open data. Open a country for its resort count and a sample of named resorts.
Ski resorts in every country
AD · Argentina · Armenia · Australia · Austria · AX · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Brazil · Bulgaria · Canada · Chile · China · Croatia · Czech Republic · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Greenland · Hungary · Iceland · India · Iran · Ireland · Italy · Japan · Kazakhstan · Kosovo · Kyrgyzstan · Latvia · Lebanon · Lesotho · Lithuania · Montenegro · Morocco · Netherlands · New Zealand · North Macedonia · Norway · Pakistan · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Russia · Serbia · Singapore · Slovakia · Slovenia · South Africa · South Korea · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · Tajikistan · Turkey · Ukraine · United Kingdom · United States · Uzbekistan
About this data
Ski areas and their outlines come from OpenStreetMap, the open, community-mapped database of the world, under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Each resort is plotted at the centre of its mapped area. We map 3,566 ski areas in all, of which 3,555fall within a country that has an international (ISO) code and so get a country page; a small number sit in disputed or untagged territory and appear on the map without one. A ski area here is a named winter-sports site as recorded in OpenStreetMap — from a single town hill to a linked mega-resort — so the count reflects mapped places, not lift capacity or skiable area. We refresh the snapshot periodically rather than calling OpenStreetMap on every visit.