No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗
Awakino Ski Area is a ski area in New Zealand, at about 1,612 m. Its mapped area is about 2.8 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 112 cm of snowfall a season, 2,208th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 24th in New Zealand. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017 (175 cm), brought more than 5 times as much as the leanest, 2016 (35 cm). Snowfall days average −2.8°C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 10th of 25 in New Zealand.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).
The most snow falls in July. September brings 79% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in New Zealand (79%). In amount, September brings 26 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 112 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016 with 35 cm; the biggest was 2017 with 175 cm (5.0 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (June–September total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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