🇯🇵 Japan · Niigata

Cupid Valley Ski Area

キューピットバレイスキー場

8 / 100 Powder Score

No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Cupid Valley Ski Area is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 429–896 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 4 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 3.8 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 569 cm of snowfall a season, 48th (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. The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 52 km away. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 131 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Base depth

0cm

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

18.8℃

Max wind

11.5km/h

Elevation (est.)

429–896m

Area

2.6km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 8/10

Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept	16.3 / 21.3	9.5
🌧️ 28 Sept	17.7 / 20.2	11.5
🌧️ 29 Sept	12.9 / 17.9	9.7
☁️ 30 Sept	13.1 / 21.6	6.4
🌦️ 1 Oct	12.7 / 21.5	8.5
🌦️ 2 Oct	10.1 / 13.7	19.5
🌦️ 3 Oct	10 / 15.8	9.3

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.

Marked runs

Run length

2.9km

Lifts

Vertical

290m

Top 721 m · base 431 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.8 km

Steepest pitch17°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs9.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 87%

East 0%

South 0%

West 13%

87% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Easy 2

Intermediate 1

Lift types

Chairlift3

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.

Live Cameras

On the mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: キューピットバレイスキー場 Roads nearby国道253号 ↗From the resort: 18 kmOperated by: 新潟県新潟県土木部

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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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.

Seasonal snowfall

569 cm

per season

Range over three winters

201 cm

482–683 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.

World rank

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

226

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 644 m, 109 m below the national median.

Quality rank

148

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-2.7°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

26%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

33%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

16 km/h

Dryness 0.34

Frequency 0.93

Freedom from rain 0.35

Calm when snowing 0.98

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
Sakae Club Ski Area	7.9 km	569 cm	48
Nozawa Onsen	14 km	510 cm	66
Togari Onsen Ski Resort	15 km	510 cm	66
New Greenpia Tsunan	20 km	610 cm	31
Nakasato Kiyotsu	22 km	610 cm	31

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 35% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 70 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

160cm

Dec

198cm

Jan

131cm

Feb

70cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

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
Matsunoyama Onsen松之山温泉	Hot spring town	10.2 km
Sakae Village History and Culture Museum栄村歴史文化館	Museum	11.3 km
Bijinbayashi美人林	Nature	12.8 km
Ryūgakubo竜ヶ窪	Nature	14.1 km
Nozawa Onsen野沢温泉	Hot spring town	14.2 km
Matsudai Nohbutaiまつだい「農舞台」	Museum	14.6 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 ↗

Nearby resorts

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Places to stay nearby

2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
キューピットバレイ	¥7,000	—	—	ほくほく線虫川大杉駅から車で約２０分
ペンション　ヴィラ・アルピーヌ	—	—	—	ほくほく線　虫川大杉駅より車で２０分