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Ishikariheigen Ski Area

石狩平原スキー場
6 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌦️

Ishikariheigen Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 38–151 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.9 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 3 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 0.9 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 247 cm of snowfall a season, 776th (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 49 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
17℃
Max wind
29.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
38–151m
Area
0.9km²

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 6/10
Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌧️ 27 Sept 0 12 / 20.5 29.4
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 14.5 / 22.1 29
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 12.9 / 18.2 31.7
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 11.1 / 20 10.8
⛈️ 1 Oct 0 10.8 / 18.3 27
🌧️ 2 Oct 0 8.4 / 10.7 30.1
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 7.9 / 12.1 23.1

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
3
Run length
0.9km
Lifts
2
Vertical
115m
Top 153 m · base 38 m

Run map

Other Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.5 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 4%
East 58%
South 10%
West 28%

62% 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

Other 3

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.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.

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
247 cm
per season
Range over three winters
72 cm
207–279 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
776
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
229
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
382
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 84 m, 669 m below the national median.
Quality rank
201
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-4.0°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
10%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
10%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
24 km/h
Dryness 0.43
Frequency 0.29
Freedom from rain 0.74
Calm when snowing 0.90

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Hokkaido Greenland White Park25 km191 cm1159
Haginoyama Shimin Ski Area27 km191 cm1159
Sapporo Moiwayama31 km193 cm1139
Sapporo Teine31 km279 cm579
Sapporo Bankei Ski Area32 km210 cm987

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 47% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 28 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

67cm
Dec
60cm
Jan
51cm
Feb
28cm
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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Toda commemoration graveyard park戸田記念墓地公園Park7.7 km
Tsukigata Kabato Museum月形樺戸博物館Museum15.8 km
Moerenuma Parkモエレ沼公園Park16.6 km
Sapporo SatolandサッポロさとらんどLeisure17.6 km
Miyajima-numa宮島沼Nature18.6 km
Yurigahara Park百合が原公園Park18.7 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.

Places to stay nearby

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

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
ハッピーバレーゴルフクラブ札幌 The Lodge———新千歳空港から車で約75分 道央自動車道経由 江別西ICより約15分 北海道医療大学駅よりお車で約5分

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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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