Sado Daira Ski Resort is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 331–386 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.4 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 3 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 0.5 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 190 cm of snowfall a season, 1171st (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. 15 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 | 16 / 21.9 | 5 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 17.1 / 21.3 | 9.8 |
| ☁️ 29 Sept | 0 | 15.2 / 19.5 | 9.7 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 11.6 / 20.3 | 8.6 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 13.3 / 19.7 | 22.9 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 12.6 / 16.6 | 31.7 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 10.8 / 16 | 11.5 |
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
73% 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
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.
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 25% 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. In amount, March brings 15 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Kamo加茂湖 | Nature | 6.9 km |
| Sotokaifu Coast外海府海岸 | Nature | 8.6 km |
| 佐渡金山 | Mountain | 9 km |
| Kitazawa Flotation Plant北沢浮遊選鉱場 | Landmark | 10.6 km |
| Sado bugyō佐渡奉行 | Historic site | 10.8 km |
| Obata Sake Brewery尾畑酒造 | Landmark | 12.6 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
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 桃華園 ＜佐渡島＞ | ¥6,650 | 4.78 100 reviews | — | ■車：両津港から車で20分 ■バス：「運動公園前」バス停より車で5分(徒歩30分) |
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Stay nearby
20 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28