Ski Resorts in Shiga
Shiga has 7 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 7 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 1218 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 Shiga
The 7 ski areas in Shiga get 118 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 20th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Yogo Kogen Resort at 249 cm, 200th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 24% 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 11 cm here, less than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 39% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.4 °C, and 10 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 Gransnow Okuibuki, 238th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 19 cm.
All ski areas in Shiga
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 | Yogo Kogen Resort | 249 cm | #309 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Gransnow Okuibuki | 194 cm | #238 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Akoyama Skijo Snowpal | 142 cm | #387 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 4 | Kutsuki Snow Park | 118 cm | #382 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 5 | Ohana Resort | 116 cm | #350 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 6 | Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 113 cm | #365 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.1 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 7 | Biwako Valley | 98 cm | #362 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
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