Love La Clusaz? Where to go next for the evenings, the family week or more to ski

If what you love is the evening and a red that makes you work, St Anton keeps both and puts snow under them. Our read of it is energetic and social, lively the way La Clusaz is, with nightlife and off piste at the top of its list.

The mountain has more bite, spread wider. Forty three percent of St Anton's piste is steeper than one in four, joint second of the 55 resorts we cover, against your 39. Oddly, its reds and blacks average gentler than yours, 25.8 and 34.1 percent against 29.0 and 37.3, so the steep ground is spread across more of the mountain rather than packed into the reds. Then the off piste: 70 kilometres of marked itinerary, the most of the 55 we cover, where La Clusaz has none in our data.

The snow is the real change. The village is at 1,304 metres, 204 above La Clusaz, the skiing reaches 2,799 by our measurement, 341 higher, and 71 percent of the piste we measure is at or above 1,800 metres against your 18. On our measure that makes St Anton snow sure. We measure 155 kilometres of piste around the village against your 97; the Arlberg is not classified in our data, so go by that measured figure.

The trade is the family half. Only 24 percent of St Anton's piste is gentler than 15 percent, against your 38, and its blues average 17.5 against 14.6. There are 66 kilometres of blue and easier, more than your 56 of green and blue, but they are steeper blues, and families are not on its list. You fly to Innsbruck or Zurich, so the weekend feel goes too.

If the heart of a La Clusaz week is the family on gentle blues in a village with character, Adelboden is the Swiss version: of the Swiss resorts we cover, our matching puts it closest. Our read is traditional and warm, a classic chalet village linked to Lenk, with families, tradition and World Cup racing on its list.

The easy skiing is very nearly a copy. Thirty eight percent of the piste is gentler than 15 percent, exactly your share, and the blues average 14.5 percent against your 14.6. Green is not reliably tagged there, so read its 52 kilometres of blue and easier against your 56 of green and blue.

What changes is where the skiing sits, more than how high it goes. The village is at 1,350 metres, 250 above La Clusaz. Fifty five percent of the piste we measure is at or above 1,800 metres, against your 18, and the middle of the skiing, our median piste height, is 1,829 metres, 301 above yours. But the top is lower: 2,356 by our measurement, 102 below La Clusaz's. On our measure that keeps Adelboden short of snow sure. Think of it as a better bet in a thin winter, not a sure one.

The size needs its full sentence. The pass covers 188 kilometres across five areas that are not all joined. From Adelboden you can ski 85 without transport, and that includes Lenk, which is linked by lift.

The trade is the evenings and the bite. Lively is not on Adelboden's list. Twenty five percent of its piste is steeper than one in four, against your 39, its reds average 21.3 percent against 29.0, and its blacks 26.1 against 37.3. Swiss grading runs kinder than French, so trust the measured share over the colours. There is more black, 12.9 kilometres against your 8.9, but it is gentler black. Geneva is one of its two airports, with Zurich.

If you love La Clusaz because it is a short trip from Geneva to a proper village, and you know every run, Châtel keeps the trip and gives you far more to ski. On our measurements it is the closest match to La Clusaz anywhere. Our read is rustic and friendly, farm village character on the Swiss border, with value, tradition and families on its list.

The size is the point. Châtel sits on the Portes du Soleil, a circuit of twelve villages in France and Switzerland that is genuinely linked. It is sold as 600 kilometres and measured at 580, and an independent measurement puts it nearer 426. Around Châtel itself we measure 82 kilometres, so the gain is in how far you can roam, not on the doorstep.

The snow is a wash: 23 percent of the piste we measure is at or above 1,800 metres, against 18, but the skiing tops out at 2,084 by our measurement, 374 below La Clusaz's.

The trade is the bite and the buzz. Twenty six percent of Châtel's piste is steeper than one in four, against your 39, and its reds average 24.3 percent, a typical French red, against your 29.0. Its 5.4 kilometres of black is the least of the 17 French resorts we cover. The family half carries over well, with 45 kilometres of green and blue, but lively is not on its list.