🇨🇱 Chile · Ñuble

Nevados de Chillán

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30 / 100 Powder Score
Poor ☀️

Nevados de Chillán is a ski area in Ñuble, Chile. It sits at about 1,700 m above sea level. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 780 cm of snowfall a season, 2nd 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. 1 other ski area lies within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
-6.2
Max wind
14.9km/h
Elevation
1,700m

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

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 20/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 5 Sept 0 -8.6 / -0.2 15.3
☀️ 6 Sept 0 -11 / 2.9 11.1
🌤️ 7 Sept 0 -0.4 / 6.5 7.1
🌤️ 8 Sept 0 0.6 / 6.9 8.4
🌦️ 9 Sept 0 -1.1 / 4.2 10.4
☁️ 10 Sept 0 -0.5 / 5 4.1
❄️ 11 Sept 4.2 -5.5 / 1.8 9.9

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.

Seasonal snowfall
780 cm
per season
Range over three winters
183 cm
666–849 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
2
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
1
of 11 in Chile
Elevation rank
8
Highest to lowest, of 11 in Chile. The centre point sits at 1,700 m, 548 m below the national median.
Quality rank
9
of 11 in Chile
Temp when snowing
+0.2°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
18%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
22%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17 km/h
Dryness 0.13
Frequency 0.63
Freedom from rain 0.54
Calm when snowing 0.98

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.

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Caviahue — 109km
Coordinates: -36.9042, -71.4104

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Updated: 5 Sept 2026, 17:21

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