Awakino Ski Area is a ski area in New Zealand. It sits at about 1,612 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.8 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 117 cm of snowfall a season, 1964th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 7 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
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 ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌨️ 27 Sept | 7.2 | -6.3 / 0.9 | 23 |
| 🌨️ 28 Sept | 0.1 | -6 / -0.6 | 21.6 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | -1.9 / 3.6 | 18.9 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | -2.6 / 8 | 12.9 |
| ❄️ 1 Oct | 0.2 | -0.4 / 6.3 | 15.3 |
| 🌧️ 2 Oct | 0 | 2.4 / 9.6 | 32.7 |
| 🌧️ 3 Oct | 0 | 2.4 / 6.2 | 10 |
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, 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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28