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Cerro Bayo

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Typical snowfall
387cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation
1,045–1,779 m
Across
3.0 km

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 ↗

Cerro Bayo, in Argentina, runs from 1,045 m at the base to 1,779 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 3.0 km across, with 39 marked runs and 13 lifts (about 18 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 387 cm of snowfall a season, 197th of 3,069 worldwide and 6th in Argentina. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2020 (600 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2025 (181 cm). Snowfall days average −0.6°C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 10th of 13 in Argentina.

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
387cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
181cm
The middle winter of the 12: 394 cm. The best: 600 cm.
World rank
197
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
6
of 13 in Argentina
Elevation rank
11
Highest to lowest, of 13 in Argentina. The centre point sits at 1,382 m, 229 m below the national median.
Quality rank
10
of 13 in Argentina
Temp when snowing
−0.6°C
Japanese median: −3.6°C
Rain days
42%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
18%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17km/h
Average daily peak, 10 m above ground across a model grid cell; not the wind on ridges or lift tops
Dryness 19
Frequency 51
Freedom from rain 35
Calm when snowing (model grid) 98

The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.

The quality score leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Cerro Catedral49.0 km348 cm287

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
39
Run length
18km
Lifts
13
Vertical
734m
Top 1,779 m · base 1,045 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map4.4 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 11%
East 53%
South 34%
West 1%

64% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 9 · 1 km
Easy 5 · 4.9 km
Intermediate 22 · 10.9 km
Advanced 2 · 0.9 km
Other 1 · 0.4 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift7
  • Magic carpet4
  • Gondola2

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in July. September brings 58% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Argentina (61%). In amount, September brings 69 cm, more than the median of 56 cm.

101cm
Jun
118cm
Jul
103cm
Aug
69cm
Sep
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 387 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025 with 181 cm; the biggest was 2020 with 600 cm (3.3 times as much). For 62% of the 13 ski areas in Argentina the leanest winter was 2016; here it was a different one.

353
223
435
338
460
600
309
534
492
443
181
281
’15’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Snowfall each winter (June–September total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

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

Videos

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Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

Getting there

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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