Cervinia lies at above sea level, at the foot of the Matterhorn (in Italian, Monte Cervino; in French, Mont Cervin, in patois valtournain, the local dialect, Gran Becca), in a valley surrounded by high, glaciated mountains and the sheer rock face of the Jumeaux. It shares a ski area with Zermatt in Switzerland, connected through the Plateau Rosa glacier (). Some of the runs are very long, the longest is Ventina (nr. 7), which stretches from the Testa Grigia (in French, Tête Grise) down to Cervinia in Italy.