🇨🇱 Chile
Corralco
32 / 100 Powder Score
Poor 🌦️ Corralco is a ski area in Chile, on slopes between roughly 1,758 and 1,758 m. Its mapped area is about 5.8 km across, with 30 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 24 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 649 cm of snowfall a season, 26th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 2nd in Chile. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2026 (904 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2016 (261 cm). Snowfall days average −1.5 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 7th of 11 in Chile.
The nearest city of any size is Temuco, about 96 km away.
Snow 24h
0.1cm
Snow 48h
10.7cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0.6cm
Temperature
1.8℃
Max wind
10.1km/h
Elevation (est.)
1758–1758m
Across
5.8km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
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) 22.4/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❄️ 7 Oct | 0.1 | -1.2 / 5.6 | 8.6 |
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | -0.5 / 5.1 | 10.1 |
| ❄️ 9 Oct | 0.6 | -1.6 / 5.2 | 8.6 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | -5.7 / 7.2 | 8.7 |
| 🌦️ 11 Oct | 0 | 1.1 / 7.3 | 9.2 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | -0.7 / 7.3 | 7.3 |
| ❄️ 13 Oct | 0.2 | -0.5 / 5.3 | 4.9 |
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.
Marked runs
30
Run length
24km
Lifts
8
Vertical
863m
Top 2,392 m · base 1,529 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.8 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.2°
Which way the slopes face
North 1%
East 53%
South 45%
West 0%
54% 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
Novice 10
Easy 9
Intermediate 4
Advanced 4
Other 3
Lift types
- Platter3
- Chairlift3
- T-bar1
- Rope tow1
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 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
649 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
261 cm
A typical winter: 672 cm. The best: 904 cm.
World rank
26
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
2
of 11 in Chile
Elevation rank
7
Highest to lowest, of 11 in Chile. The centre point sits at 1,758 m, 490 m below the national median.
Quality rank
7
of 11 in Chile
Temp when snowing
-1.5°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
30%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
28%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
19 km/h
Dryness 0.25
Frequency 0.81
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.95
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 65% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: September brings 108 cm, more than the median of 54 cm.
185cmJun
165cmJul
164cmAug
108cmSep
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 649 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016 with 261 cm; the biggest was 2026 with 904 cm (3.5 times as much). For 45% of the 11 ski areas in Chile, the leanest winter was the same 2016: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
261
904
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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.
Coordinates: -38.3977, -71.5642
More places to look
What we have measured at Corralco
- Nevados de Chillán: South America's Snowiest Ski Area, and Why Its Snow Is Wet Nevados de Chillán gets 752 cm a season, 3rd of the 3,069 ski areas we measure and the most in South America by a distance. Its snow falls at an average of +0.3 °C, which is the catch, and its winters run from 188 cm to 1,121 cm.
- 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.
- Where Is the Driest Snow in the Southern Hemisphere? We extended our snow-quality measurement to all 59 ski areas below the equator. The high Andes are drier than most of Japan. New Zealand and Australia get rain on a third of winter days. And the southern hemisphere's snowiest resorts are mostly not its best ones.
- How Much Does Snow in Chile and Argentina Change From Winter to Winter? Three of the world's thirty snowiest ski areas are in South America on our standard measure. Over twelve winters, the typical Chilean ski area's best winter was about four and a half times its worst and the typical Argentine one's three and a half — against 2.3 in Japan. Only Italy swings as hard as Chile.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52