Love Les Gets? Where to go next for the village, the big circuit or more snow

On our numbers, Adelboden is the closest match to Les Gets of all 55 resorts we cover, and close on nearly everything. It is a classic chalet village, traditional and warm by our read, with tradition and families on its list. Of the picks on this page it is the only one that keeps both of the labels we give Les Gets, traditional and family.

The skiing carries over well. We measure 114.6 kilometres around Adelboden against your 99, with 52 kilometres of blue and easier against your 55 of green and blue. A quarter of the piste is steeper than one in four, against your 23 percent, and 38 percent is gentler than 15 percent, against 34. Swiss grading runs kinder than French, so trust the measured shares over the colours.

What it adds is height. The village is at 1,350 metres, 178 above yours, and the skiing reaches 2,356 by our measurement, 391 higher. Fifty five percent of the piste is at or above 1,800 metres, against your 1. That is a real change, but the top stops short of the 2,500 metres our snow sure test asks for, so Adelboden does not pass it either.

The trade is the circuit, and it is a big one. Adelboden's pass covers 188 kilometres, but across five areas that are not all joined. From the village you can ski 85 kilometres, and that includes Lenk, which is linked by lift. Set against a linked 580, it is a much smaller world. You fly to Zurich or Geneva.

If you love Les Gets for being a real village on the edge of an enormous linked area, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville is the same idea, higher and in the Three Valleys. It is an old Savoyard village, traditional and quiet by our read, and its list runs authentic, foodie and Three Valleys access. The area beyond is quoted at 600 kilometres, in the same league as the Portes du Soleil, though that is a figure we have not measured ourselves.

The snow is the difference. The village sits at 1,450 metres, 278 above yours, and the skiing reaches 2,691 by our measurement, 726 higher. Seventy five percent of the piste we measure is at or above 1,800 metres, against your 1, so it is snow sure on our measure, where Les Gets is not.

The skiing stays gentle, even though we do not tag Saint-Martin as a family resort. Two thirds of the piste we measure is green or blue, 50 kilometres of it against your 55, and only 20 percent is steeper than one in four, against your 23. Its blues average 16.6 percent, a touch steeper than yours at 15.0, and its reds 21.9 against 23.2.

The trade is the doorstep and the hard end. We measure 75 kilometres of piste around the village, against your 99, so more of the week is spent heading out into the wider area, and there are 6 kilometres of black against your 9.6. It is quiet rather than family on our reading. You fly to Geneva, as now, or Chambéry.

If the point of a Les Gets week is the family on gentle runs together, Arosa does it from a village at 1,800 metres, 628 above yours and the second highest of the 15 Swiss resorts we cover. It is a gentle, sunny bowl, a family resort by our read, with families and sunshine on its list.

Every figure that worries you at Les Gets moves the right way. The skiing reaches 2,848 metres by our measurement, 883 higher, and 65 percent of the piste is at or above 1,800, so Arosa is snow sure on our measure. One cable car links it with Lenzerheide, and the joint domain is 225 kilometres, a figure three sources agree on. Around Arosa itself we measure 183 kilometres, the most of the 15 Swiss resorts we cover and far more than your 99.

The easy skiing comes with it: 96.6 kilometres of blue and easier, again the most of the Swiss resorts we cover, against your 55. The mountain feels much the same, with 24 percent of the piste steeper than one in four against your 23, and blues averaging 15.4 percent against your 15.0.

The trade is the village. We do not class Arosa as traditional, so it is a different sort of place to Les Gets, and its domain, big as it is, is well under half the Portes du Soleil's 580. You fly to Zurich.