Monbetsu City Oyama Monbetsu City Oyama is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 51–311 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.3 km². 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 181 cm of snowfall a season, 1256th (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. 27 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 | 8.9 / 19.6 | 10.9 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 10.4 / 22.9 | 12.4 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.2 / 19.3 | 30.6 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 9.6 / 17.1 | 15.1 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 7.7 / 17.1 | 28.3 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 7.1 / 11.7 | 28.8 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 5.9 / 12.3 | 15.3 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Chairlift2
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Takinouecho Sakuragaoka | 25 km | 189 cm | 1184 |
| Engaru Rock Valley | 39 km | 178 cm | 1282 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 73% 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 37 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 紋別小向 weather station — 7.5 km from this ski area, 163 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 378 cm |
| 2023/24 | 366 cm |
| 2024/25 | 378 cm |
| 2025/26 | 390 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 181 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Okhotsk Tokkari Centerオホーツクとっかりセンター | Park | 3.7 km |
| Okhotsk Sea Ice Park北海道立オホーツク流氷公園 | Park | 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
7 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 紋別プリンスホテル | ¥4,290 | 4.23 3074 reviews | — | 紋別空港より車で１０分。道道305号（紋別丸瀬布線）沿い |
| ホテルオホーツクパレス | ¥5,830 | 4.12 978 reviews | — | JR石北線遠軽駅より車で45分/オホーツク紋別空港より車で10分/旭川紋別自動車道・浮島ＩＣ→国道273号線約80分 |
| 紋別セントラルホテル | ¥6,600 | 4.45 1852 reviews | — | オホーツク紋別空港から車で約10分。旭川紋別自動車道・丸瀬布（まるせっぷ）ＩＣから約60分。 |
| ワークマンハウス紋別 | ¥8,000 | 4.00 11 reviews | — | ハローワーク（バスターミナル）から車で約１分、徒歩約３分 |
| 気晴館 | — | — | — | オホーツク紋別空港よりお車にて１０分、バスにて１５分 |
| 民宿さくらハウス別館 | — | — | — | ＪＲ 遠軽駅よりお車にて約１時間 |
| 民宿さくらハウス本館 | — | — | — | 遠軽駅又は名寄駅／道北バス 札幌・旭川から直行便あり |
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Stay nearby
4 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 2 km
Nearest first
- Monbetsu Prince Hotel 2 km
- 紋別セントラルホテル Hotel 2.1 km
- ホテル カーサ Motel 2.3 km
- ホテル新生 Motel 2.3 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28