🇯🇵 Japan · Hokkaido

Orofure Ski Area

弁景温泉オロフレスキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Orofure Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 215–303 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.7 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 4 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 1.9 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 159 cm of snowfall a season, 1469th (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. 35 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

17.5℃

Max wind

9.3km/h

Elevation (est.)

215–303m

Area

0.7km²

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 10/10

Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept	13.2 / 19.9	11.1
🌧️ 28 Sept	14.1 / 18.9	13.9
☁️ 29 Sept	11.2 / 16.9	13.7
🌤️ 30 Sept	8.4 / 16.9	10.3
🌧️ 1 Oct	11.1 / 15.8	19.3
🌦️ 2 Oct	7.6 / 10.8	25.1
🌦️ 3 Oct	7.2 / 11.7	20.9

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

1.9km

Lifts

Vertical

132m

Top 360 m · base 227 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.9 km

Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs11.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 47%

East 40%

South 13%

West 0%

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 1

Intermediate 2

Advanced 1

Lift types

Chairlift1

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.

Roads nearby国道453号 ↗From the resort: 8.5 kmOperated by: 北海道開発局

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

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Rusutsu and Toya webcams & snow report — all 3 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.

Seasonal snowfall

159 cm

per season

Range over three winters

30 cm

144–174 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.

World rank

1469

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

318

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

310

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 316 m, 437 m below the national median.

Quality rank

291

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-2.5°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

10%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

22 km/h

Dryness 0.32

Frequency 0.21

Freedom from rain 0.75

Calm when snowing 0.92

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
Sanlaiva	10 km	168 cm	1366
Muroran-shi Ski Area	15 km	141 cm	1685
Rusutsu Resort	19 km	199 cm	1095
Niseko Grand Hirafu	42 km	315 cm	416
Asahigaoka Ski Resort	44 km	298 cm	495

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 83% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 40 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.

32cm

Dec

48cm

Jan

38cm

Feb

40cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 69.9 °C).

Source	Distance	Temperature	pH	Type	Analysed
弁景町54年井(54-SB-1)	0.6 km	69.9℃ hot	7.6 mildly alkaline	simple	—
弁景SB-1(52-SB-1)	0.7 km	44.7℃ hot	8.1 mildly alkaline	simple	—
弁景林	0.8 km	62.5℃ hot	7.7 mildly alkaline	simple	—

These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.

Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST

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
Shōwa-shinzan昭和新山	Mountain	9.9 km
Lake Tōya洞爺湖	Nature	11.4 km
Mount Usu有珠山	Mountain	11.9 km
Shikotsu-Tōya National Park支笏洞爺国立公園	Nature	12.5 km
Noboribetsu Onsen登別温泉	Hot spring town	14.8 km
Lake Kuttara倶多楽湖	Nature	17.5 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.