Canmore Ski Resort is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 199–450 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.5 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 10 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 5.9 km of piste. There is no settled snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 205 cm of snowfall a season, 1037th (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. 42 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 27 Sept | 0 | 8.6 / 20.8 | 22.5 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 11.3 / 23.8 | 19.6 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.3 / 17.9 | 23.7 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 9.8 / 18.5 | 9.9 |
| ⛈️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.2 / 16 | 26.2 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 6.3 / 11.3 | 18.6 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 6.3 / 11 | 14.5 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 10% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift2
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
Asahikawa webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →
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.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Touma Ski Area | 12 km | 236 cm | 842 |
| Inosawa Sky Slopes | 17 km | 200 cm | 1085 |
| Santa present park | 20 km | 200 cm | 1085 |
| Pippu Ski Slopes | 23 km | 219 cm | 935 |
| Asahidake | 23 km | 345 cm | 308 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 65% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 36 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 東神楽 weather station — 10.2 km from this ski area, 113 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 340 cm |
| 2023/24 | 363 cm |
| 2024/25 | 317 cm |
| 2025/26 | 339 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 205 cm.
A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records
Worth seeing nearby
Places within 20 km of this ski area, for a day off the slopes or an evening. Chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Asahiyama Zoo旭川市旭山動物園 | Museum | 6.4 km |
| OTOKOYAMA男山 (酒造メーカー) | Nature | 12.8 km |
| Kamikawa Shrine上川神社 | Shrine | 14.3 km |
| Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine北海道護國神社 | Shrine | 15.4 km |
| Hokuchin Memorial Museum北鎮記念館 | Museum | 15.5 km |
| Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture中原悌二郎記念旭川市彫刻美術館 | Museum | 16.4 km |
Based on the Japanese Wikipedia lists of sights in each prefecture, as compiled in travel-log-data (CC BY-SA 4.0). English names from Wikidata (CC0). The content of this section is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗Places to stay nearby
3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 東川ペリカン | ¥18,850 | 5.00 10 reviews | — | 旭川空港：車で約15分、旭川駅：車で約30分、道央自動車道・旭川鷹栖IC：車で約38分 |
| Ｐｌａｙ Ｇｒｏｕｎｄ ＢＡＳＥ －ｈｉｇａｓｈｉｋａｗａ 美瑛・富良野・旭川／民泊 | — | — | — | 北日ノ出駅から車で約２０分 |
| ｂｌｏｏｍｉｎｇ ｖｉｌｌａ ｈｉｇａｓｈｉｋａｗａ ＾ | — | — | — | 北日ノ出駅から車で約１６分 |
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Stay nearby
8 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 3.4 km
Nearest first
- mizuki Hotel 3.4 km
- P-DASH GARDEN Hostel 4 km
- ペンションととり Guest house 4.6 km
- ＶＩＬＬＡニセウコロコロ Hotel 4.6 km
- コンドミニアム あんどん Guest house 4.6 km
- マ・メゾンP2 Hotel 4.7 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28