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The state of the Alps huts

The alpine clubs publish each hut's availability but never the whole picture. Here it is: how full the huts really are, which nights are contested, which club runs tightest. Free to reuse under CC BY.

671 huts observed

56,660 hut-nights measured

21.9% already fully booked

As measured on 28 July 2026, over the following 120 nights. A closed hut does not count as fully booked.

The most contested nights

Share of the observed huts that are fully booked that night, across the whole Alps. 90% of the ten tightest nights fall on a weekend.


Sat 22 August 2026	49%	651 huts
Sat 1 August 2026	48.2%	650 huts
Sat 5 September 2026	46.8%	647 huts
Sat 8 August 2026	46.5%	654 huts
Sat 15 August 2026	45.9%	654 huts
Sat 29 August 2026	44.8%	647 huts
Sat 12 September 2026	41.1%	642 huts
Sat 19 September 2026	33.9%	607 huts
Sat 26 September 2026	31.6%	532 huts
Fri 14 August 2026	29.9%	655 huts

Month by month


July 2026	28.3%	2,568
August 2026	25.4%	19,908
September 2026	17.5%	17,403
October 2026	19.9%	10,661
November 2026	23.8%	6,120

By alpine club


CAI Alto Adige	37.1%	6
Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV)	35.9%	142
Società Alpinisti Tridentini (SAT)	26.6%	34
German Alpine Club (DAV)	24.2%	191
Swiss Alpine Club (SAC/CAS)	12.9%	239
Alpine Club South Tyrol (AVS)	8.2%	21
Via Vallemaggia	7.5%	33

By altitude


<2000 m	15%	312
2000-2499 m	23.2%	198
2500-2999 m	16.4%	101
3000+ m	10.4%	29

By country


Austria	35.9%	145
Germany	24.2%	191
Italy	21.2%	61
Switzerland	12.2%	272

The huts that fill up first

Filter huts 30 huts


F.F. Tuckett e Q. Sella · SAT	96.7%	2272 m
Münchner Haus · DAV	95.5%	2959 m
Refuge de la Charpoua · guides_chamonix	93.4%	2841 m
Knorrhütte · DAV	82.4%	2051 m
Bremer Hütte · DAV	71.7%	2413 m
Jugendbildungsstätte Winterraum · DAV	70.2%	857 m
Riemannhaus · DAV	67.2%	2177 m
Tosa "Tommaso Pedrotti" · SAT	66.1%	2500 m
Franz-Fischer-Hütte · OEAV	64.7%	2020 m
Hallerangerhaus · DAV	64.7%	1768 m
Watzmannhaus · DAV	61.3%	1930 m
Olpererhütte · DAV	60.9%	2389 m
Göppinger Hütte · DAV	59%	2245 m
Haus Wäldele · DAV	58.9%	1250 m
Falkenhütte · DAV	58.8%	1848 m
Clarahütte · DAV	58.5%	2038 m
Lamsenjochhütte · DAV	57.4%	1953 m
Wolayersee-Hütte · OEAV	54.4%	1960 m
Kärlingerhaus · DAV	53.9%	1631 m
Reintalangerhütte · DAV	52.8%	1370 m
Pfeis-Hütte · OEAV	52.2%	1922 m
Refuge des Cosmiques · guides_chamonix	51.2%	3613 m
Filmoor-Standschützen-Hütte · OEAV	50.8%	2350 m
Konstanzer Hütte · DAV	50%	1688 m
Totalp-Hütte · OEAV	49.2%	2385 m
Zsigmondyhütte (Rif. Comici) · AVS	48.5%	2224 m
Obstansersee-Hütte · OEAV	48.4%	2304 m
Cabane Bertol CAS · SAC	47.1%	3311 m
Dammahütte SAC · SAC	47.1%	2439 m
Cabane du Fenestral · SAC	46.5%	2453 m

How this is measured — and what it does not say. Only nights actually observed are counted: a closed hut is not fully booked, it is shut. This is a snapshot of today's booking state over the next 120 nights, not a season average. 46 huts report full across the entire window and are left out of the ranking: that almost always means they take no online booking, not that they are the most sought-after. We deliberately say nothing about cancellation rates here — those need a long, evenly spaced observation window, or you end up measuring your own polling schedule.

Use this data

Free to reuse, commercially included, under CC BY 4.0 — the only condition is crediting the source. Machine-readable: /data.json for these figures, /huts.json for the hut referential (name, club, country, altitude, coordinates, capacity — no availability). CORS open.

For research, newsrooms and mapping projects: write to us if you need a longer time series than this page shows.

Cite as HutVigil (2026). The state of the Alps huts: live availability across around 700 alpine huts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21600346 — CC BY 4.0.