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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 ↗
Volcán Osorno, in Chile, runs from 1,194 m at the base to 1,647 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 8 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 93 cm of snowfall a season, 2,449th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 11th in Chile. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022 (233 cm), brought more than 33 times as much as the leanest, 2016 (7 cm). Snowfall days average −2.6°C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 11th of 11 in Chile.
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).
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estación Esquí Antillanca | 48.0 km | 577 cm | 48 |
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.
Only 0% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (76%).
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 July. September brings 42% of July’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Chile (77%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, September brings 14 cm, less than the median of 54 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 93 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016 with 7 cm; the biggest was 2022 with 233 cm (33.3 times as much). For 55% of the 11 ski areas in Chile the leanest winter was 2019; here it was a different one.
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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