Ski resort webcams in Spain

Skiing in Spain

Spain is the second most mountainous country in Europe, and it has more than thirty ski areas. The biggest are in the Pyrenees: Baqueira-Beret in the Val d'Aran, La Molina and Masella facing each other across the Cerdanya, and the Aramón resorts of Formigal-Panticosa and Cerler in Aragon, with Candanchú and Astún side by side near the French border. Sierra Nevada, above Granada, is the southernmost ski resort in Europe, less than an hour's drive from the beaches of the Costa Tropical. Smaller resorts in the Cantabrian Mountains, La Rioja and Galicia are where Spanish families ski at weekends.

What the cameras show

Most cameras here are the resorts' own: live video from Feratel and ipcamlive on the pistes of Aragon and Sierra Nevada, high-resolution photos from the railway company that runs several Catalan resorts, and 360-degree panoramas that you can turn around with your finger. Catalonia's public broadcaster adds a weather camera at most of the Catalan resorts, and Windy fills the gaps with time-lapses of the day. Out of season the lifts stand still and the slopes are green or brown: the same cameras show the walking country and the high lakes in summer.

When to watch

Spain is one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. The season usually runs from early December to Easter, longer in a good year at the highest resorts. Look first thing in the morning for fresh snow and grooming, and again at midday to see the queues at the lifts and how the cloud is sitting on the peaks. A camera that shows only white has either a lot of snow or thick fog: the forecast on each page tells you which.

Which resorts are here

We add a resort when at least one of its cameras can be shown on its own page here. Javalambre, Valdelinares, Valdesquí, La Pinilla, La Covatilla and Leitariegos have cameras that were switched off or frozen when we checked, in October, and will be looked at again when the season starts. Navacerrada, above Madrid, is not here: its ski area has been closed. Each resort also has its place in its own region, next to the towns and valleys around it, in the Catalan Pyrenees, the Aragonese Pyrenees, Inland Andalusia and the north of Spain.