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Estación de esquí de Leitariegos

Off season

Estación de esquí de Leitariegos is a ski area in Spain, at about 1,668 m. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 17 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 6.6 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 234 cm of snowfall a season, 832nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 12th in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (536 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (128 cm). March still brings 60 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Temperature
4.6℃
Max wind
13.2km/h
Elevation
1,668m
Across
1.4km

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.

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
234 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
128 cm
A typical winter: 196 cm. The best: 536 cm.
World rank
832
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
12
of 34 in Spain
Elevation rank
29
Highest to lowest, of 34 in Spain. The centre point sits at 1,668 m, 114 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 94% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Spain (102%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 60 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.

49cm
Dec
64cm
Jan
61cm
Feb
60cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 234 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 128 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 536 cm (4.2 times as much). For 29% of the 34 ski areas in Spain, the leanest winter was the same 2022/23: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.

536
128
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

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
17
Run length
6.6km
Lifts
6
Vertical
278m
Top 1,791 m · base 1,514 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 31%
East 58%
South 10%
West 1%

89% 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 1
Easy 9
Intermediate 7

Lift types

  • Drag lift3
  • Chairlift3

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.

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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