🇯🇵 Japan · Hokkaido

Saroma Choei

佐呂間町営スキー場

6 / 100 Powder Score

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Saroma Choei is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 43–108 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.5 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 176 cm of snowfall a season, 1297th (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. 22 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

16.2℃

Max wind

23.6km/h

Elevation (est.)

43–108m

Area

0.5km²

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	Temp	Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept	11.7 / 20.3	23.6
☁️ 28 Sept	14 / 23.6	22.2
🌦️ 29 Sept	13.2 / 20.7	20.6
🌦️ 30 Sept	10.7 / 16.9	12.8
🌦️ 1 Oct	9.1 / 20.9	27.4
🌤️ 2 Oct	6.5 / 13.8	27.3
🌦️ 3 Oct	6.5 / 12.7	13.1

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.

Marked runs

Lifts

Lift types

Chairlift1

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.

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333号 ↗From the resort: 6.7 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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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

176 cm

per season

Range over three winters

60 cm

153–213 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.

World rank

1297

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

302

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

374

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 99 m, 654 m below the national median.

Quality rank

183

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-3.9°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

22 km/h

Dryness 0.42

Frequency 0.26

Freedom from rain 0.88

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
Northern Arc Resort	20 km	148 cm	1597
Engaru Rock Valley	20 km	178 cm	1282
Rubeshibe-cho Happodai	29 km	152 cm	1549
Wakamatsu Shimin Ski Area	32 km	149 cm	1587
Bihoro Lily Yama Ski Area	33 km	143 cm	1663

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 36 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

41cm

Dec

49cm

Jan

38cm

Feb

36cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 佐呂間 weather station — 1.3 km from this ski area, 21 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average	343 cm
2023/24	319 cm
2024/25	393 cm
2025/26	318 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 176 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
Horoiwa Yama幌岩山	Mountain	11.9 km
Lake Saromaサロマ湖	Nature	15.3 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.