Ski Resorts in Aomori
Aomori has 9 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 9 of them with an official live camera. None of them are holding snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. The highest terrain on file reaches about 1069 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Where It’s Snowing
Resorts with 3cm+ of snow in the last 48 hours. A ❄ marks anything over 15cm.
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Snow in Aomori
The 9 ski areas in Aomori get 234 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 11th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, close to the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area at 371 cm, 89th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 46% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 37 cm here, less than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 18% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −2.3 °C, and 20 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). Rain is close to the national median of 16%, and it is warmer than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area, 26th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 154 cm.
All ski areas in Aomori
The season has not started, so these are in order of typical snowfall.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Powder Score | Base depth | Snow 48h | Temperature | Live Cameras | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area | 371 cm | #26 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Moya Hills | 339 cm | #107 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Aomori Spring Resort | 324 cm | #125 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 4 | Iwakisan Hyakuzawa Ski Resort | 324 cm | #157 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 5 | Kase Ski Area | 234 cm | #300 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.9 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 6 | Owani Onsen Ski Resort International Area | 233 cm | #207 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 7 | Yogoshiyama Ski Area | 231 cm | #346 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 16.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 8 | Makado Onsen | 182 cm | #347 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 16.9 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 9 | Soyumura 229 Ski Land | 176 cm | #326 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
Onsen towns in Aomori
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
Deep snow close to a city
Ski areas averaging 300 cm or more, by straight-line distance from the nearest large city.
Snowfall is the 12-winter average from the ERA5 reanalysis, and the model runs low on mountain snow, by different amounts in different regions (the regional map on the Japan page adds that difference back; the figures on this page do not). Read the ranks and the comparisons rather than the centimetres. The month-by-month pattern uses the last 12 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure