Ski con amigos en Cerro Bayo.
By: Cerro Bayo Ski Boutique · 2016-07-28
Cerro Bayo is a ski area in Argentina. It sits at about 1,382 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 3.0 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 48 marked runs and 13 lifts, totalling about 21 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 372 cm of snowfall a season, 237th (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. 5 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
1.3cm
Next 24h
0.1cm
Next 72h
0.1cm
Temperature
2.9℃
Max wind
15.2km/h
Elevation
1,382m
Area
3.0km²
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) 3.8/40
Forecast (24h) 0.2/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 26 Sept | 0 | 0.7 / 5.7 | 14.3 |
| ❄️ 27 Sept | 0.1 | 0 / 8 | 15.2 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | -2.4 / 6.7 | 15.7 |
| ☁️ 29 Sept | 0 | -0.6 / 7.5 | 7.1 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | -0.9 / 2.7 | 11.5 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | -1.6 / 9.3 | 8.5 |
| ❄️ 2 Oct | 0.6 | -0.7 / 3.3 | 11.8 |
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
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. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Novice 9
Easy 5
Intermediate 22
Advanced 2
Other 1
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.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
See the snow in motion
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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
372 cm
per season
Range over three winters
311 cm
181–492 cm. The best winter was 2.7x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.
World rank
237
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
8
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
-0.4°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
42%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
18%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17 km/h
Dryness 0.17
Frequency 0.51
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.98
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.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cerro Catedral | 49 km | 287 cm | 542 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
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.
101cmJun
118cmJul
103cmAug
69cmSep
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: -40.7497, -71.6021
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28