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Estación de esquí de Valdezcaray

Off season Official site

Estación de esquí de Valdezcaray is a ski area in Spain, at about 1,712 m. Its mapped area is about 2.7 km across, with 36 marked runs and 10 lifts (about 15 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 143 cm of snowfall a season, 1,761st (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 22nd in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (353 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2022/23 (96 cm). March is usually the snowiest month, with about 43 cm.

Below is a link to its official live camera.

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

Temperature
4℃
Max wind
23.4km/h
Elevation
1,712m
Across
2.7km

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 ↗

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
143 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
96 cm
A typical winter: 117 cm. The best: 353 cm.
World rank
1761
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
22
of 34 in Spain
Elevation rank
24
Highest to lowest, of 34 in Spain. The centre point sits at 1,712 m, 70 m below the national median.

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Punto de Nieve Santa Inés28 km146 cm1714
Estación de Esquí Valle del Sol29 km122 cm2067

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 43 cm, less than the median of 52 cm.

20cm
Dec
42cm
Jan
38cm
Feb
43cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 143 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2022/23 with 96 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 353 cm (3.7 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.

353
96
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
36
Run length
15km
Lifts
10
Vertical
589m
Top 2,135 m · base 1,546 m

Run map

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

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.3 km
Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 42%
East 21%
South 1%
West 36%

63% 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 8
Easy 14
Intermediate 12
Advanced 2

Lift types

  • Chairlift7
  • Drag lift3

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

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Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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