Ski Resorts in Yamagata
Yamagata has 17 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 17 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 1860 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 Yamagata
The 17 ski areas in Yamagata get 345 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 6th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 268 cm. The snowiest is Mount Gassan Ski Resort at 708 cm, 15th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 39% 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 45 cm here, about the same as the national median of 45 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 22% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −2.1 °C, and 27 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 Tengendai Kogen, 9th of 395 in Japan.
All ski areas in Yamagata
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 | Mount Gassan Ski Resort | 708 cm | #20 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Hagurosan Ski Area | 511 cm | #263 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 19.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Yokone | 481 cm | #311 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 20.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 4 | Asahi Shizenkan Snow Park | 431 cm | #226 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 17.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 5 | Tengendai Kogen | 423 cm | #9 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 6 | Kuriko International Ski & Resort | 400 cm | #113 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 16.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 7 | Hanagasa Kogen Ski Area | 388 cm | #209 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.1 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 8 | Kurobushi Kogen Snow Park Jangle Jungle | 357 cm | #93 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.7 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 9 | Onogawa Onsen | 345 cm | #290 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 10 | Tenoko Ski Area | 334 cm | #317 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 19.1 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 11 | Zao Liza World | 297 cm | #77 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.9 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 12 | Zao Onsen | 297 cm | #78 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 13 | Yonezawa Snow World | 296 cm | #203 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 17.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 14 | Zao Sarukura | 294 cm | #160 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 17.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 15 | Green Valley Kamuro Ski Area | 280 cm | #308 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 16 | Doshojidaira Ski Area | 270 cm | #302 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 19.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 17 | Hachimoriyama Ski Area | 190 cm | #390 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 20 ℃ | 🎥 |
Onsen towns in Yamagata
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
Deep snow close to a city
Ski areas averaging 300 cm or more, by straight-line distance from the nearest large city.
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 11 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure