No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Valdelén, in Argentina, runs from 563 m at the base to 707 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 11 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 4.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 123 cm of snowfall a season, 2,056th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 13th in Argentina. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2015 (210 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2016 (42 cm). Snowfall days average −2.2°C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 12th of 13 in Argentina.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
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).
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.
95% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
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.
The most snow falls in August. September brings 87% of July’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Argentina (61%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: September brings 27 cm, less than the median of 56 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 123 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016 with 42 cm; the biggest was 2015 with 210 cm (5.0 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (June–September total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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