Ski Resorts in Oita
Oita has 1 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 1315 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Where It’s Snowing
Resorts with 3cm+ of snow in the last 48 hours. A ❄ marks anything over 15cm.
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Snow in Oita
Oita has one ski area, and it gets 25 cm of snow in a typical season. That makes it 30th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 268 cm.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 31% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 55%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 4 cm here, less than the national median of 45 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 26% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −3.5 °C, and 0 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more. That is more rain than the national median of 16%, and temperatures are typical for Japan. Its snow-quality score ranks 394th of 395 in Japan.
All ski areas in Oita
The season has not started, so these are in order of typical snowfall.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Powder Score | Base depth | Snow 48h | Temperature | Live Cameras | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuju Forest Park | 25 cm | #394 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 17.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
Ski areas near Oita
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Oita (up to 179 km).
With only one ski area in Oita, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Gokase Highland Ski Area in Miyazaki, about 58 km away. The snowiest of these is Megahiraonsen Megahira Ski Area in Hiroshima at 80 cm a season, about 3.2 times as much as Kuju Forest Park (25 cm).
Onsen towns in Oita
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
Snowfall is the 3-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 10 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure