Cerro Catedral snow report
The largest lift-served area in South America, 1,150 m of vertical above Lago Nahuel Huapi, and a base that is low for the latitude. Winter mean maxima in Bariloche are above freezing in every month of the season, so the bottom third turns to slush or rain in a warm front. Two of the last three seasons opened on manufactured snow alone, in a single beginner sector.
Argentina · Southern Hemisphere · live from the weather model at 1030–2180 m
Conditions right now
Read at summit elevation the moment you opened this page.
Hourly windows, accumulation ranges, confidence and travel flags, or the transparent 0–100 Ski Meter score.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), adapted for display. Elevations are approximate published figures; forecasts are model estimates, not guarantees.
The mountain right now
The live freezing level drawn on the elevation profile. Above the snow line, precipitation falls and stays as snow.
Terrain shape is schematic; elevations are the resort's approximate published figures.
Why it snows here
The Southern Hemisphere westerlies drive Pacific fronts onto the northern Patagonian Andes, and the range wrings them out going east. Inside one national park the annual total falls from about 4,000 mm at the Chilean border to 600 mm at the eastern end of the lake. Bariloche sits at 810 mm, so Catedral is on that gradient rather than at its wet end.
Reading Cerro Catedral like a forecaster
The number that matters most at Cerro Catedral is the difference between the base (1030 m) and the summit (2180 m): when the freezing level sits between the two, the mountain is split into rain or wet snow below and dry snow above. The Ski Meter reads the model at both elevations and scores the day with every point accounted for; the full report adds hourly timing, accumulation ranges and confidence tags so you can decide when to travel, not just whether.