El Colorado
El Colorado is a ski area in Santiago, Chile. It sits at about 2,757 m above sea level. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 326 cm of snowfall a season, 371st (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. 7 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
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.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☀️ 5 Sept | 0 | -11.5 / 1.4 | 8.4 |
| ☀️ 6 Sept | 0 | -9.9 / 2.3 | 8.4 |
| 🌤️ 7 Sept | 0 | -8 / 1.8 | 7.9 |
| 🌨️ 8 Sept | 0.4 | -7.9 / 0.8 | 7.8 |
| ❄️ 9 Sept | 1.3 | -7.5 / -0.1 | 8.3 |
| ❄️ 10 Sept | 1.1 | -6 / -1.1 | 7.4 |
| ❄️ 11 Sept | 2.3 | -10.3 / -4.2 | 5.4 |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Parva | 1.9 km | 326 cm | 371 |
| Valle Nevado | 3.9 km | 326 cm | 371 |
| Lagunillas | 29 km | 384 cm | 209 |
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
Updated: 5 Sept 2026, 17:21