Caviahue is a ski area in Argentina, at about 1,841 m. Its mapped area is about 4.1 km across, with 13 marked runs and 11 lifts (about 13 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 584 cm of snowfall a season, 47th of 3,069 worldwide and 1st in Argentina. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2026 (859 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2016 (233 cm). Snowfall days average −0.8 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 4th of 13 in Argentina.
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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❄️ 7 Oct | 0.4 | -1.8 / 3.9 | 6.9 |
| ❄️ 8 Oct | 1.5 | 0.1 / 1.6 | 8.8 |
| ❄️ 9 Oct | 3.6 | -0.1 / 3 | 6 |
| ☁️ 10 Oct | 0 | -0.5 / 4.5 | 7.3 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | 0.2 / 6 | 5.1 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | -0.1 / 6 | 5.2 |
| 🌨️ 13 Oct | 0.2 | -0.6 / 4.7 | 4.4 |
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
76% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Drag lift5
- Chairlift4
- T-bar1
- Magic carpet1
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 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. 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 deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in June. September brings 61% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Argentina (61%). In amount, September brings 89 cm, more than the median of 56 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 584 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016 with 233 cm; the biggest was 2026 with 859 cm (3.7 times as much). For 62% of the 13 ski areas in Argentina, the leanest winter was the same 2016: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (June–September total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
What we have measured at Caviahue
- Where to Ski in July and August: Argentina Has the Deepest Snow of Any Country on Earth, and Everyone Books New Zealand Argentina's median ski area gets 348 cm a season — more than Japan's 249 cm, and the highest median of any country we measure with ten or more ski areas. New Zealand's median is 144 cm. The English-language northern-summer ski trip points at the wrong hemisphere's end.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52