Ski Resorts in Gunma
Gunma has 23 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 18 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 2258 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 Gunma
The 23 ski areas in Gunma get 252 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 10th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, close to the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Kawaba Ski Resort at 423 cm, 68th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 63% of January. That is in line with the national median of 57%. March brings 52 cm here, about the same as the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 11% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −5.7 °C, and 18 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is less rain than the national median of 16%, and it is colder than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Shiga Kogen Shibutoge Ski Area, 4th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 158 cm.
All ski areas in Gunma
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 | Kawaba Ski Resort | 423 cm | #7 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 9 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Tambara Ski Park | 423 cm | #10 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 10.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Norn Minakami | 368 cm | #85 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.2 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 4 | Tanigawadake Tenjindaira Ski Area | 368 cm | #75 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 5 | White Valley Ski Area | 368 cm | #122 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 6 | Shiga Kogen Shibutoge Ski Area | 333 cm | #4 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 5.2 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 7 | Fujiwara Snow&Spa Resort | 291 cm | #113 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.3 ℃ | |
| 8 | Hodaigi Ski Resort | 291 cm | #91 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 9 | Minakami Kogen Ski Resort | 291 cm | #105 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 10 | Manza Onsen | 255 cm | #43 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 7.9 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 11 | Katashina Kogen Ski Resort | 252 cm | #106 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.6 ℃ | |
| 12 | Katashina Ogna Hotaka Snow Resort | 252 cm | #76 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 10.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 13 | Kusatsu Onsen Ski Resort | 252 cm | #82 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 14 | Oguna Hotaka Ski Area | 252 cm | #54 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 10.4 ℃ | |
| 15 | Snow Park Oze Tokura | 252 cm | #87 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.3 ℃ | |
| 16 | White World Oze Iwakura | 252 cm | #81 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 10.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 17 | Marunuma Kogen Ski Resort | 249 cm | #41 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 10 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 18 | Okutone | 198 cm | #274 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 19 | Palcall Tsumagoi Resort Ski & Hotel | 178 cm | #144 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 8.7 ℃ | |
| 20 | Takamine Mountain Park Ski Area | 145 cm | #190 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 8.1 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 21 | Kazawa Snow Area | 136 cm | #248 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 22 | Karuizawa Snow Park | 115 cm | #320 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.2 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 23 | Akagisan Daiichi Ski Area | 80 cm | #294 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 10.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
Onsen towns in Gunma
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