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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.

661 huts observed

36,646 hut-nights measured

23.6% already fully booked

As measured on 11 September 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 12 September 2026	46%	628 huts
Thu 31 December 2026	43.8%	281 huts
Sat 26 September 2026	38%	513 huts
Sat 19 September 2026	37.9%	593 huts
Sat 3 October 2026	33.5%	454 huts
Sat 24 October 2026	33.5%	284 huts
Sat 10 October 2026	32.2%	379 huts
Sat 7 November 2026	31.9%	226 huts
Sat 31 October 2026	31.1%	254 huts
Sat 14 November 2026	30.5%	220 huts

Month by month


September 2026	19.1%	10,727
October 2026	23.2%	9,714
November 2026	27.5%	6,492
December 2026	26.4%	7,283
January 2027	25.4%	2,430

By alpine club


Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV)	43.3%	139
CAI Alto Adige	39.9%	6
Società Alpinisti Tridentini (SAT)	32.7%	34
German Alpine Club (DAV)	22.5%	188
Swiss Alpine Club (SAC/CAS)	11.7%	237
Via Vallemaggia	8.1%	34
Alpine Club South Tyrol (AVS)	4.9%	18

By altitude


<2000 m	14.4%	310
2000-2499 m	22.6%	195
2500-2999 m	13.7%	99
3000+ m	16.6%	26

By country


Austria	43.2%	142
Italy	26.4%	58
Germany	22.5%	188
Switzerland	11.2%	271

The huts that fill up first

Filter huts 30 huts


F.F. Tuckett e Q. Sella · SAT	97.5%	2272 m
Tosa "Tommaso Pedrotti" · SAT	94.2%	2500 m
Refuge des Cosmiques · guides_chamonix	87.6%	3613 m
Cabane Bertol CAS · SAC	84.3%	3311 m
Bosruck-Hütte · OEAV	56.2%	1036 m
Berghaus Alpenrösli · SAC	55.4%	1775 m
Haus Wäldele · DAV	53.3%	1250 m
Jugendbildungsstätte Winterraum · DAV	52.9%	857 m
Fritz-Putz Hütte · DAV	44.6%	1180 m
Capanna Brogoldone · Via-Vallemaggia	41.3%	1910 m
Jonsdorfer Hütte · DAV	40.9%	452 m
Traunsteiner Skihütte/ Winklmoosalm · DAV	38.6%	1160 m
Gepatschhaus · DAV	38.3%	1928 m
Edelraute-Hütte · OEAV	36.7%	1725 m
Cabane Balavaux · SAC	36.4%	2042 m
Sylvan-Hütte · DAV	35.8%	374 m
Obere Maxlraineralm · DAV	33.9%	1528 m
Berg- und Skiheim Brixen im Thale - Ferienwohnung · DAV	33.7%	800 m
Spitzsteinhaus · DAV	32.2%	1252 m
Lobhornhütte · SAC	31.7%	1955 m
Gauenhütte · DAV	30.7%	1235 m
Talherberge Zwieselstein · DAV	29.9%	1472 m
Dreischusterhütte · AVS	26.4%	1639 m
Sunnehüsi · SAC	25.6%	1125 m
Fergenhütte SAC · SAC	25.6%	2141 m
Nauderer Hütte · DAV	24.8%	1910 m
La Borbuintze · SAC	24.8%	1333 m
Steinwaldhütte · DAV	24%	701 m
Skihütte Elm · SAC	21.4%	1745 m
Saupsdorfer Hütte · DAV	20.7%	285 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.