🇦🇷 Argentina

Caviahue

50 / 100 Powder Score
Fair ☁️ Official site

Caviahue is a ski area in Argentina. It sits at about 1,841 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 4.1 km². Within 2.8 km of the centre, the map shows 15 marked runs and 11 lifts, totalling about 13 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 594 cm of snowfall a season, 41st (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 3 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
21.8cm
Snow 48h
95.4cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
7.4cm
Temperature
2.4℃
Max wind
14.3km/h
Elevation
1,841m
Area
4.1km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 40/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
❄️ 25 Sept 10.3 -0.1 / 3.3 16.2
🌦️ 26 Sept 0 0.1 / 4.9 14.3
🌨️ 27 Sept 6.2 -2.2 / 4.5 12.2
❄️ 28 Sept 1.7 -2.1 / 3 12.6
☁️ 29 Sept 0 -6.5 / 3.5 13.4
🌨️ 30 Sept 4.4 -1.7 / 0.9 15.8
❄️ 1 Oct 4.9 0.3 / 4.8 15

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
13
Run length
13km
Lifts
11
Vertical
428m
Top 2,111 m · base 1,683 m

Run map

IntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.3 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs6.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 3%
East 73%
South 21%
West 3%

76% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Intermediate 6
Advanced 1
Other 6

Lift types

  • Drag lift5
  • Chairlift4
  • T-bar1
  • Magic carpet1

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
594 cm
per season
Range over three winters
482 cm
333–815 cm. The best winter was 2.4x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.
World rank
41
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
2
of 13 in Argentina
Elevation rank
4
Highest to lowest, of 13 in Argentina. The centre point sits at 1,841 m, 230 m above the national median.
Quality rank
4
of 13 in Argentina
Temp when snowing
-0.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
13%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
25%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
21 km/h
Dryness 0.20
Frequency 0.73
Freedom from rain 0.67
Calm when snowing 0.94

The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.

The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in June. September brings 61% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Argentina (61%). In amount, September brings 89 cm, more than the median of 56 cm.

174cm
Jun
147cm
Jul
142cm
Aug
89cm
Sep
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 00:03

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