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By: Who’s TV / by Fumika Hoshino · 2026-03-15
Suhara Ski Area is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 199–454 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.9 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 13 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 5.6 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 562 cm of snowfall a season, 50th 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. The nearest city of any size is Niigata, about 66 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 127 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
19.6℃
Max wind
4.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
199–454m
Area
1.9km²
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 10/10
Base 0/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 27 Sept | 0 | 16.5 / 23.2 | 4.4 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 17.4 / 20.9 | 4.7 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 14.1 / 19.3 | 4.9 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 13.6 / 22 | 8.5 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 13.2 / 21.3 | 17 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 11.4 / 16 | 20.1 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 10.3 / 16.8 | 8.3 |
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
11
Run length
5.6km
Lifts
4
Vertical
347m
Top 549 m · base 202 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.8°
Which way the slopes face
North 16%
East 35%
South 48%
West 2%
51% 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 4
Intermediate 4
Advanced 3
Lift types
- Chairlift4
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. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
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
562 cm
per season
Range over three winters
214 cm
461–675 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
50
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
37
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
292
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 375 m, 378 m below the national median.
Quality rank
270
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-0.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
42%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
34%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17 km/h
Dryness 0.17
Frequency 0.96
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.98
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yakushi Ski Area | 11 km | 586 cm | 47 |
| Koshi Kogen Ski Area | 11 km | 491 cm | 78 |
| Koide Ski Area | 13 km | 438 cm | 132 |
| Nagaoka City Ski Area | 14 km | 411 cm | 161 |
| Hakkai Sanroku Ski Area | 19 km | 492 cm | 75 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 29% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 56 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
143cmDec
190cmJan
137cmFeb
56cmMar
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 守門 weather station — 3.5 km from this ski area, 104 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 894 cm |
| 2023/24 | 675 cm |
| 2024/25 | 1116 cm |
| 2025/26 | 891 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 562 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
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 21.2 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 守門鉱泉白石鉱泉 | 3.9 km | 21.2℃ cold | 7.5 mildly alkaline | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meguro Residence目黒邸 | Landmark | 1 km |
| Niigata Prefectural Road Route 50新潟県道50号小出奥只見線 | Landmark | 11.7 km |
| 湯之谷温泉郷 | Hot spring town | 14.3 km |
| Nagaoka Station長岡駅 | Landmark | 19 km |
| Nagaoka Castle長岡城 | Historic site | 19.1 km |
| City Hall Plaza Ao-re Nagaoka長岡市シティホールプラザアオーレ長岡 | Landmark | 19.1 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 ↗ Coordinates: 37.3297, 139.0102
Places to stay nearby
5 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 治兵衛 | ¥5,500 | 4.50 24 reviews | — | 小出インターより25分。上越新幹線浦佐駅より35分。只見線 越後須原駅より徒歩３分 |
| 新潟県ホテル仕様の民泊施設ドリーム／民泊 | ¥5,800 | 3.00 7 reviews | — | 越後須原駅より徒歩にて約２分 |
| 民宿 浦新 | — | — | — | 浦佐駅よりお車にて３０分 |
| 民宿 小西屋 | — | — | — | 小出インターより車で２０分。上越新幹線浦佐駅より車で３０分。只見線「越後須原駅」より徒歩5分。 |
| やすらぎの宿 港屋旅館 | — | — | — | JR只見線 越後須原駅より徒歩５分/関越自動車道 小出ICから車で２０分 |
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