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Ski Resorts in Saga
Saga has 1 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 911 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 Saga
Saga has one ski area, and it gets 9 cm of snow in a typical season. That makes it 31st of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 249 cm.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 25% 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 1 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 −2.7°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 397th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 1 cm.
All ski areas in Saga
In order of typical snowfall. Press a column heading to re-sort.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Top | Runs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tenzan Ski Resort top 911 m · 2 runs | 9 cm | #397 | 911 m | 2 |
Ski area webcams in Saga
1 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 Saga
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Saga (up to 188 km).
With only one ski area in Saga, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Kuju Forest Park in Oita, about 101 km away. The snowiest of these is Gokase Highland Ski Area in Miyazaki at 47 cm a season, about 5.2 times as much as Tenzan Ski Resort (9 cm).
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