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Ski Resorts in Hiroshima
Hiroshima has 9 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 1 of them with an official live camera. None of them are holding snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. The highest terrain on file reaches about 1274 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Ski area map
No snow marks yet. The dots are ski areas; once it starts snowing, places with 3cm+ in 48 hours get a mark.
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Snow in Hiroshima
The 9 ski areas in Hiroshima get 116 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 21st of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Geihoku Kokusai at 125 cm, 350th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 40% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 16 cm here, less than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 27% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −2.6°C, and 6 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is more rain than the national median of 16%, and temperatures are typical for Japan. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Kenmin no Mori Ski Area, 345th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 51 cm.
All ski areas in Hiroshima
In order of typical snowfall. Press a column heading to re-sort.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Top | Runs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geihoku Kokusai top 1,117 m · 15 runs | 125 cm | #353 | 1,117 m | 15 |
| 2 | Yawata Highland 191 Resort top 951 m · 15 runs | 125 cm | #360 | 951 m | 15 |
| 3 | Utopia Saioto top 1,142 m · 8 runs | 124 cm | #368 | 1,142 m | 8 |
| 4 | Kenmin no Mori Ski Area top 1,102 m | 116 cm | #345 | 1,102 m | — |
| 5 | Osorakan Snow Park top 1,274 m · 21 runs | 116 cm | #355 | 1,274 m | 21 |
| 6 | Dogoyama-Kougen Ski Resort top 1,077 m · 3 runs | 105 cm | #358 | 1,077 m | 3 |
| 7 | Snow Resort Nekoyama top 1,000 m · 7 runs | 105 cm | #374 | 1,000 m | 7 |
| 8 | Ski Park Kanbiki top 812 m · 8 runs | 95 cm | #383 | 812 m | 8 |
| 9 | Megahiraonsen Megahira Ski Area top 1,065 m · 8 runs | 74 cm | #385 | 1,065 m | 8 |
Compare the top three (Geihoku Kokusai, Yawata Highland 191 Resort, Utopia Saioto) →
Ski area webcams in Hiroshima
5 ski areas, those with a camera on the slopes first. Each name opens the camera section of that ski area's page.
Onsen towns in Hiroshima
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
Snowfall is the 12-winter average from the ERA5 reanalysis, and the model runs low on mountain snow, by different amounts in different regions (the regional map on the Japan page adds that difference back; the figures on this page do not). Read the ranks and the comparisons rather than the centimetres. The month-by-month pattern uses the last 12 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure