Spain

La Pinilla Estación de Esquí

Off season

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.

Typical snowfall
109cm
Elevation
1,484–2,039 m
Across
2.5 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.

La Pinilla Estación de Esquí, in Spain, runs from 1,484 m at the base to 2,039 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 29 marked runs and 14 lifts (about 12 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 109 cm of snowfall a season, 2,250th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 30th in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (279 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (56 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 35 cm.

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.

Seasonal snowfall
109cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
56cm
The middle winter of the 12: 89 cm. The best: 279 cm.
World rank
2250
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
30
of 34 in Spain
Elevation rank
26
Highest to lowest, of 34 in Spain. The centre point sits at 1,687 m, 95 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Centro de esquí nórdico Navafría37.0 km130 cm1954

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
29
Run length
12km
Lifts
14
Vertical
555m
Top 2,039 m · base 1,484 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate 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 map1.8 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 85%
East 11%
South 0%
West 4%

96% 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 4 · 0.5 km
Easy 7 · 4 km
Intermediate 18 · 7.3 km

Lift types

  • Drag lift6
  • Chairlift3
  • Gondola2
  • Magic carpet2
  • 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

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 35 cm, less than the median of 52 cm.

14cm
Dec
33cm
Jan
27cm
Feb
35cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 109 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 56 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 279 cm (5.0 times as much).

73
70
92
279
56
73
117
85
67
148
106
146
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

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.

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