It was the 30th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women.

[1] Both men's and women's events tend to be held at the same resorts over a 2 or 3 day period.

The Tour de Ski was a series of events which count towards the World Cup.

The table shows the number of points won in the 2010–11 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup for men and women.

All distance races, included individual stages in Tour de Ski and in World Cup Final (which counts as 50% of a normal race), count towards the distance standings.