Corralco
Corralco is a ski area in Chile. The terrain spans roughly 1758–1758 m above sea level. The mapped ski area is about 5.8 km across, corner to corner. The map shows 30 marked runs and 8 lifts inside the ski area, totalling about 24 km of piste. Averaged over the last twelve winters, the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 649 cm of snowfall a season, 26th (tied) of the 3,069 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. The nearest city of any size is Temuco, about 96 km away. 4 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
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.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❄️ 6 Oct | 9.6 | -1 / 3.9 | 10.7 |
| ❄️ 7 Oct | 0.8 | -0.9 / 6 | 8.2 |
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | -0.6 / 5.4 | 11.6 |
| ❄️ 9 Oct | 2.2 | -2.1 / 5.7 | 9 |
| ☁️ 10 Oct | 0 | -5.9 / 6.3 | 8.1 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | 0.7 / 7.1 | 6.9 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | 0.1 / 6.4 | 6 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
54% 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
Lift types
- Platter3
- Chairlift3
- T-bar1
- Rope tow1
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
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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 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 65% of July’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Chile (77%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: September brings 108 cm, more than the median of 54 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 649 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016 with 261 cm; the biggest was 2026 with 904 cm (3.5 times as much). For 45% of the 11 ski areas in Chile, the leanest winter was the same 2016: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (June–September total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
What we have measured at Corralco
- South America's Snowiest Ski Area Is a Chilean Volcano With No English Wikipedia Page Nevados de Chillán gets 752 cm a season, 3rd of the 3,069 ski areas we measure and the most in South America by a distance. Its snow falls at an average of +0.3 °C, which is the catch, and its winters run from 188 cm to 1,121 cm.
- Where to Ski in July and August: Argentina Has the Deepest Snow of Any Country on Earth, and Everyone Books New Zealand Argentina's median ski area gets 348 cm a season — more than Japan's 249 cm, and the highest median of any country we measure with ten or more ski areas. New Zealand's median is 144 cm. The English-language northern-summer ski trip points at the wrong hemisphere's end.
- Las Leñas Sees Rain on 1% of Winter Days. Mount Baw Baw Sees It on 43%. We Measured Southern-Hemisphere Snow Quality. We extended our snow-quality measurement to all 59 ski areas below the equator. The high Andes are drier than most of Japan. New Zealand and Australia get rain on a third of winter days. And the southern hemisphere's snowiest resorts are mostly not its best ones.
- Las Leñas Has Had a 196 cm Winter and a 1,034 cm One. South America's Deepest Snow Is Also Its Least Predictable. Three of the world's thirty snowiest ski areas are in South America on our standard measure. Over twelve winters, the typical Argentine and Chilean ski area's best winter was about three and a half times its worst — against 2.3 in Japan. Italy and New Zealand swing harder still.
Updated: 7 Oct 2026, 00:32