Estación Invernal y de Montaña San Isidro (Sector Riopinos)
Estación Invernal y de Montaña San Isidro (Sector Riopinos) is a ski area in Spain, at about 1,752 m. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 8 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 4.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 250 cm of snowfall a season, 734th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 10th in Spain. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (613 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (121 cm). March still brings 61 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.
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estación Invernal y de Montaña San Isidro (Sector Cebolledo y Requejines) | 1.2 km | 250 cm | 734 |
| Estación Invernal Fuentes de Invierno | 1.4 km | 250 cm | 734 |
| Estación Invernal y de Montaña San Isidro (Sector Saliencias) | 2.7 km | 250 cm | 734 |
| Sector Celleros (Abandonado) | 30 km | 186 cm | 1270 |
| Estación Invernal y de Montaña Valgrande-Pajares | 32 km | 186 cm | 1270 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 87% 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 61 cm, more than the median of 52 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 250 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 121 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 613 cm (5.1 times as much). For 38% of the 34 ski areas in Spain, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 7% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Platter1
- Chairlift1
- 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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Nearby resorts
More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52