Valle Nevado is a ski area in Santiago, Chile. It runs from 2860 m at the base to 3670 m at the summit. Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 113 marked runs and 17 lifts, totalling about 68 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 326 cm of snowfall a season, 371st (tied) 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. The nearest city of any size is Santiago, about 38 km away. 7 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
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 ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 26 Sept | 0 | -0.7 / 2.4 | 7.1 |
| ☁️ 27 Sept | 0 | -2.9 / 1.8 | 6.2 |
| ❄️ 28 Sept | 3.2 | -7.4 / 0 | 8.8 |
| 🌨️ 29 Sept | 0.7 | -9.2 / 0.9 | 8.1 |
| 🌨️ 30 Sept | 0.9 | -3.9 / -1.2 | 6.3 |
| ❄️ 1 Oct | 0.8 | -0.9 / 3.2 | 6.8 |
| ⛈️ 2 Oct | 16 | -4.4 / 1.6 | 7.4 |
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
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 39% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Platter5
- Chairlift5
- Rope tow3
- Magic carpet2
- T-bar1
- Gondola1
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.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
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.
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.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Colorado | 3.9 km | 326 cm | 371 |
| La Parva | 4.4 km | 326 cm | 371 |
| Lagunillas | 28 km | 384 cm | 209 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in June. September brings 88% of July’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Chile (77%). In amount, September brings 49 cm, about the same as the median of 54 cm.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28