Chile · Santiago

Lagunillas

ラグニージャス
27 / 100 Powder Score
Poor Weather Snow showers
Snow 48h
2cm
Next 72h
27cm
Snow 24h
2 cm
Next 24h
5 cm
Temperature
2°C
Max wind
7 km/h
Elevation
2,208–2,414 m

Updated: 20 Oct 2026, 09:20

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.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Mon 19 Oct Snow showers 2 2 to 5 7
Tue 20 Oct Snow showers 11 0 to 5 7
Wed 21 Oct Snow showers 11 −3 to 3 6
Thu 22 Oct Snow showers 4 −2 to 3 6
Fri 23 Oct Snow showers 17 −3 to 1 7
Sat 24 Oct Snow showers 14 −10 to 0 9
Sun 25 Oct Snow showers 0 −7 to 5 8

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 6/40
Forecast (24h) 9/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Lagunillas, in Santiago, Chile, runs from 2,208 m at the base to 2,414 m at the top. The map shows 10 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 5.2 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 328 cm of snowfall a season, 363rd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 5th in Chile. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2026 (577 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2019 (177 cm). Snowfall days average −1.3°C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 6th of 11 in Chile.

The nearest city of any size is San Bernardo, about 38 km away in a straight line.

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
10
Run length
5.2km
Lifts
3
Vertical
206m
Top 2,414 m · base 2,208 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.1 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 1%
East 1%
South 68%
West 31%

Only 2% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 2 · 0.5 km
Easy 1 · 0.8 km
Intermediate 2 · 1.3 km
Advanced 5 · 2.6 km

Lift types

  • Platter3

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.

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
328cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
177cm
The middle winter of the 12: 301 cm. The best: 577 cm.
World rank
363
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
5
of 11 in Chile
Elevation rank
6
Highest to lowest, of 11 in Chile. The centre point sits at 2,248 m, level with the national median of 2,248 m.
Quality rank
6
of 11 in Chile
Temp when snowing
−1.3°C
Japanese median: −3.5°C
Rain days
9%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
15%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
8km/h
Dryness 24
Frequency 43
Freedom from rain 77
Calm when snowing 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).

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
Valle Nevado28.0 km278 cm579
El Colorado29.0 km278 cm579
La Parva30.0 km278 cm579

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in June. September brings 97% of July’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Chile (77%). In amount, September brings 63 cm, more than the median of 54 cm.

94cm
Jun
65cm
Jul
86cm
Aug
63cm
Sep
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 328 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019 with 177 cm; the biggest was 2026 with 577 cm (3.3 times as much). For 55% of the 11 ski areas in Chile, the leanest winter was the same 2019.

325
218
263
301
177
358
264
301
426
428
298
577
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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.

More places to look

What we have measured at Lagunillas

  • Skiing From Santiago: Ski Areas Within 40 km, and Almost No Rain Only three cities of three million or more have a 300 cm ski area within 120 km: Santiago, Seattle and Nagoya. Santiago's nearest is 38 km, about half Seattle's distance — and the fields beside it see rain on 3% of winter days against a Japanese median of 16%.

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