第32回 美幌ふるさと祭り PV
By: 美幌町公式チャンネル · 2025-09-03
Bihoro Lily Yama Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 11 and 91 m. Its mapped area is about 0.5 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 143 cm of snowfall a season, 328th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (270 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (105 cm). March still brings 33 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 7.2 km away measured 281 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 143 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −3.8 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 260th of 397 in Japan.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
12.6℃
Max wind
25.1km/h
Elevation (est.)
11–91m
Across
0.5km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
143 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
105 cm
A typical winter: 131 cm. The best: 270 cm.
World rank
1761
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
328
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
391
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 50 m, 716 m below the national median.
Quality rank
260
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
5%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
6%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
21 km/h
Dryness 0.42
Frequency 0.17
Freedom from rain 0.88
Calm when snowing 0.93
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Arc Resort | 14 km | 148 cm | 1686 |
| Wakamatsu Shimin Ski Area | 17 km | 149 cm | 1677 |
| Abashiri Lake View Ski Resort | 20 km | 144 cm | 1745 |
| Saroma Choei | 33 km | 171 cm | 1407 |
| Kiyosato Choei Midori Ski Area | 36 km | 212 cm | 1041 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 83% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 33 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
35cmDec
40cmJan
33cmFeb
33cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 143 cm, and 9 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 105 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 270 cm (2.6 times as much).
270
105
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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
1
Run length
0.4km
Lifts
1
Vertical
81m
Top 93 m · base 12 m
Run map
Easy Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.4 km
Steepest pitch16°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.1°
Which way the slopes face
North 3%
East 95%
South 3%
West 0%
98% 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 1
Lift types
- Chairlift1
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.
See the snow in motion
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Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 女満別 weather station — 7.2 km from this ski area, 18 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 281 cm |
| 2023/24 | 245 cm |
| 2024/25 | 287 cm |
| 2025/26 | 311 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 143 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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Memanbetsu Airport女満別空港 | Landmark | 7.3 km |
| メルヘンの丘 | Nature | 12.2 km |
| 朝日ケ丘公園 (大空町) | Park | 12.6 km |
| Lake Abashiri網走湖 | Nature | 15.1 km |
| Kitami Mint Memorial Museum北見ハッカ記念館 | Museum | 16.5 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: 43.8428, 144.0903
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ビジネスホテル ＡＲＭ美幌 | ¥4,250 | 4.12 156 reviews | 2.1 km | 美幌ＩＣよりお車で約７分、美幌駅より徒歩約１５分 |
| ワークマンハウス美幌 | ¥7,000 | 2.79 16 reviews | 2.5 km | JR美幌駅まで車で約5分 |
| 民宿峠荘 | ¥7,150 | 4.36 31 reviews | 1.4 km | 美幌駅から徒歩で8分 |
| ＧＵＥＳＴＨＯＵＳＥ ＬＥ ＲＥＰＯＳ／民泊 | ¥7,885 | — | 1.5 km | 美幌駅から徒歩で約２分 |
| Ｇｕｅｓｔ Ｈｏｕｓｅ Ｌｅａ ｌｅａ／民泊 | ¥9,976 | — | 3.2 km | 美幌駅から徒歩で7分 |
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Stay nearby
3 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
3 Hotel
Nearest: 1.3 km
Nearest first
- 旅館 青葉荘 Hotel 1.3 km
- 民宿峠荘 Hotel 1.4 km
- Business Hotel ARM Bihoro Hotel 2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Hokkaido
- A Historic El Niño Is Forecast. Here Is What the Last Big One Did to Japan's Snow. NOAA gives a very strong El Niño better than a 90% chance this winter. We measured every Japanese ski area across the last 12 winters: El Niño winters ran 88% of normal, and the strongest of the twelve left Japan at 63%. But Hakuba held 92% of its average that winter while Niseko fell to 57%.
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- Australia Just Had Its Worst Season in Twenty Years. Here Is What Japan's 12-Winter Record Says About Booking It Instead. Snow depth at Spencers Creek peaked at 94.5 cm, the third lowest since 1954, and resorts closed in August. Our own measure — snowfall, not depth — puts Australia at 50% of its 12-year average. The gap between those two numbers is the story: it was the warmth, not only the lack of snow. New Zealand, meanwhile, finished at 108% of normal.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52