Argentina

Cerro Perito Moreno

Off season
Official site

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
476cm

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
987–1,733 m
Across
4.5 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 Perito Moreno, in Argentina, runs from 987 m at the base to 1,733 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.5 km across, with 19 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 21 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 476 cm of snowfall a season, 93rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 2nd in Argentina. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022 (732 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2016 (204 cm). Snowfall days average −0.9°C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 7th 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
476cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
204cm
The middle winter of the 12: 490 cm. The best: 732 cm.
World rank
93
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
2
of 13 in Argentina
Elevation rank
6
Highest to lowest, of 13 in Argentina. The centre point sits at 1,652 m, 41 m above the national median.
Quality rank
7
of 13 in Argentina
Temp when snowing
−0.9°C
Japanese median: −3.6°C
Rain days
34%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
22%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
13km/h
Average daily peak, 10 m above ground across a model grid cell; not the wind on ridges or lift tops
Dryness 21
Frequency 62
Freedom from rain 35
Calm when snowing (model grid) 100

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).

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
19
Run length
21km
Lifts
6
Vertical
746m
Top 1,733 m · base 987 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced 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 map3.2 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs7.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 9%
East 47%
South 36%
West 8%

56% 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 1 · 3.2 km
Easy 4 · 4.1 km
Intermediate 12 · 12.1 km
Advanced 2 · 1.5 km

Lift types

  • J-bar2
  • Chairlift2
  • T-bar1
  • Platter1

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 June. September brings 60% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Argentina (61%). In amount, September brings 79 cm, more than the median of 56 cm.

132cm
Jun
131cm
Jul
128cm
Aug
79cm
Sep
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 476 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016 with 204 cm; the biggest was 2022 with 732 cm (3.6 times as much).

367
204
618
556
616
647
341
732
569
424
243
396
’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.

Map

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

Official piste map ↗

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗

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