Estación de esquí de Leitariegos
No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
- Elevation
- 1,514–1,791 m
- Across
- 1.4 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.
Estación de esquí de Leitariegos, in Spain, runs from 1,514 m at the base to 1,791 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 17 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 234 cm of snowfall a season, 832nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 12th in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (536 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (128 cm). March still brings 60 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.
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.
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
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
89% 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
- Drag lift3
- Chairlift3
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
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 94% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Spain (102%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 60 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 234 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 128 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 536 cm (4.2 times as much). For 29% of the 34 ski areas in Spain, the leanest winter was the same 2022/23: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (December–March 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.