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Ski Resorts in Okayama
Okayama has 2 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE. None of them are holding snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. The highest terrain on file reaches about 849 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 Okayama
The 2 ski areas in Okayama get 161 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 17th of the 29 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort at 161 cm, 303rd in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 42% 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 24 cm here, less than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 29% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.9°C, and 12 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is more rain than the national median of 16%, and it is warmer than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort, 341st of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 78 cm.
All ski areas in Okayama
In order of typical snowfall. Press a column heading to re-sort.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Top | Runs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort top 726 m · 7 runs | 161 cm | #341 | 726 m | 7 |
| 2 | Ibukinosato Ski Area top 849 m · 9 runs | 115 cm | #366 | 849 m | 9 |
Compare the top three (Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort, Ibukinosato Ski Area) →
Ski area webcams in Okayama
2 ski areas, those with a camera on the slopes first. Each name opens the camera section of that ski area's page.
Ski areas near Okayama
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Okayama (up to 33 km).
With only 2 ski areas in Okayama, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Kagamiganaru Ski Area in Tottori, about 10 km away. The snowiest of these is Kagamiganaru Ski Area in Tottori at 185 cm a season, about the same as Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort, the snowiest in Okayama (161 cm).
Onsen towns in Okayama
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