Ski Resorts in Ishikawa
Ishikawa has 4 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 4 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 969 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 Ishikawa
The 4 ski areas in Ishikawa get 507 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 2nd of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort at 526 cm, 42nd in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 36% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 65 cm here, more than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 46% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.1 °C, and 36 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is more rain than 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 SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort, 223rd of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 246 cm.
All ski areas in Ishikawa
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 | SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort | 526 cm | #223 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Hakusan Senjo Onsen Seymour Ski Area | 507 cm | #246 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.9 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Kanazawa Municipal Ski Resort | 314 cm | #298 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 16 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 4 | Ookuradake Kogen Ski Area | 215 cm | #369 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 17.1 ℃ | 🎥 |
Ski areas near Ishikawa
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Ishikawa (up to 33 km).
With only 4 ski areas in Ishikawa, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is IOX-AROSA in Toyama, about 5 km away. The snowiest of these is Hida Kawai Ski Resort in Gifu at 345 cm a season, less than SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort, the snowiest in Ishikawa (526 cm).
Onsen towns in Ishikawa
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