{ "name": "Nozawa Onsen", "alternateNames": [ "Nozawa Onsen Snow Resort", "野沢温泉スキー場", "野澤溫泉滑雪場" ], "type": "ski resort", "url": "https://snowingplaces.com/ski-resorts/nozawa-onsen/", "summary": "A ski resort above the hot-spring village of Nozawa Onsen in Nagano, which hosted the biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.", "location": { "country": "Japan", "region": "Nagano", "latitude": 36.92, "longitude": 138.45 }, "elevationMetres": { "topLift": 1650, "village": 565 }, "season": { "opens": "Late November", "closes": "Early May" }, "officialWebsite": "https://en.nozawaski.com/", "factsVerified": false, "forecast": { "generatedUtc": "2026-09-18T16:00:00.000Z", "models": [ "ECMWF IFS", "NOAA GFS", "DWD ICON" ], "updateFrequency": "every 3 hours", "topLift": { "headline": "No snow in the next 24 hours.", "detail": "No snow expected in the next 7 days.", "confidence": { "label": "High confidence", "modelsAgreeing": 3, "reason": "all three forecast models agree" }, "next24Hours": { "snowfallCm": { "low": 0, "high": 0, "mean": 0 }, "modelsForecastingSnow": 0, "text": "Under 1 cm" }, "next7Days": { "snowfallCm": { "low": 0, "high": 0, "mean": 0 }, "modelsForecastingSnow": 0, "text": "Under 1 cm" }, "conditionsAtForecastTime": { "temperatureC": 11, "windKmh": 5, "gustKmh": 9, "freezingLevelM": 4800 }, "days": [ { "day": "Today", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 11, "max": 20 }, "maxGustKmh": 21, "freezingLevelM": 4750 }, { "day": "Sun", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 2, "temperatureC": { "min": 14, "max": 18 }, "maxGustKmh": 29, "freezingLevelM": 4850 }, { "day": "Mon", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 14, "max": 16 }, "maxGustKmh": 47, "freezingLevelM": 5350 }, { "day": "Tue", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 9, "max": 16 }, "maxGustKmh": 51, "freezingLevelM": 5400 }, { "day": "Wed", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 2, "temperatureC": { "min": 9, "max": 18 }, "maxGustKmh": 26, "freezingLevelM": 4900 }, { "day": "Thu", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 2, "temperatureC": { "min": 11, "max": 17 }, "maxGustKmh": 29, "freezingLevelM": 4350 }, { "day": "Fri", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 10, "max": 17 }, "maxGustKmh": 21, "freezingLevelM": 4350 } ], "outlookDays8To14": [ { "day": "Sat 26 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 10, "max": 15 } }, { "day": "Sun 27 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 9, "max": 14 } }, { "day": "Mon 28 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 8, "max": 13 } }, { "day": "Tue 29 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 8, "max": 13 } }, { "day": "Wed 30 Sep", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 7, "max": 12 } }, { "day": "Thu 1 Oct", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 7, "max": 12 } }, { "day": "Fri 2 Oct", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 5, "max": 11 } } ], "modelledSnowDepth": "No snow on the ground", "modelledSnowDepthCm": 0, "localTimeAtForecast": "01:00", "timezone": "GMT+9" }, "village": { "headline": "No snow in the next 24 hours.", "detail": "No snow expected in the next 7 days.", "confidence": { "label": "High confidence", "modelsAgreeing": 3, "reason": "all three forecast models agree" }, "next24Hours": { "snowfallCm": { "low": 0, "high": 0, "mean": 0 }, "modelsForecastingSnow": 0, "text": "Under 1 cm" }, "next7Days": { "snowfallCm": { "low": 0, "high": 0, "mean": 0 }, "modelsForecastingSnow": 0, "text": "Under 1 cm" }, "conditionsAtForecastTime": { "temperatureC": 16, "windKmh": 7, "gustKmh": 15, "freezingLevelM": 4750 }, "days": [ { "day": "Today", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 16, "max": 27 }, "maxGustKmh": 17, "freezingLevelM": 4700 }, { "day": "Sun", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 19, "max": 25 }, "maxGustKmh": 16, "freezingLevelM": 4850 }, { "day": "Mon", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 19, "max": 21 }, "maxGustKmh": 27, "freezingLevelM": 5300 }, { "day": "Tue", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 15, "max": 22 }, "maxGustKmh": 32, "freezingLevelM": 5350 }, { "day": "Wed", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 14, "max": 24 }, "maxGustKmh": 16, "freezingLevelM": 4800 }, { "day": "Thu", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 2, "temperatureC": { "min": 15, "max": 22 }, "maxGustKmh": 22, "freezingLevelM": 4300 }, { "day": "Fri", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsAgreeing": 3, "temperatureC": { "min": 15, "max": 23 }, "maxGustKmh": 20, "freezingLevelM": 4300 } ], "outlookDays8To14": [ { "day": "Sat 26 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 15, "max": 20 } }, { "day": "Sun 27 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 15, "max": 20 } }, { "day": "Mon 28 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 14, "max": 18 } }, { "day": "Tue 29 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 13, "max": 19 } }, { "day": "Wed 30 Sep", "weather": "Rain", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 12, "max": 17 } }, { "day": "Thu 1 Oct", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 13, "max": 19 } }, { "day": "Fri 2 Oct", "weather": "Dry", "snowfall": "No snow", "snowfallCm": null, "modelsWithData": 2, "modelsShowingSnow": 0, "temperatureC": { "min": 11, "max": 17 } } ], "modelledSnowDepth": "No snow on the ground", "modelledSnowDepthCm": 0, "localTimeAtForecast": "01:00", "timezone": "GMT+9" } }, "snowRecord": { "metric": "average days per month with at least 1 cm of snowfall", "period": "2016–2025", "source": "ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo", "elevation": "mid-mountain", "daysPerMonth": { "january": 23.9, "february": 18.1, "march": 13.1, "april": 4, "may": 0, "june": 0, "july": 0, "august": 0, "september": 0, "october": 0.1, "november": 5.6, "december": 19 }, "shareOfAnnualSnowfallPercent": { "january": 30, "february": 21, "march": 12, "april": 3, "may": 0, "june": 0, "july": 0, "august": 0, "september": 0, "october": 0, "november": 6, "december": 27 }, "averageDailyTemperatureC": { "january": { "low": -7.7, "high": -2 }, "february": { "low": -7.5, "high": -1.2 }, "march": { "low": -4.1, "high": 3.5 }, "april": { "low": 0.9, "high": 10.2 }, "may": { "low": 7.4, "high": 16.5 }, "june": { "low": 12.3, "high": 19.5 }, "july": { "low": 17.1, "high": 23.5 }, "august": { "low": 17.9, "high": 24.6 }, "september": { "low": 14.4, "high": 20.8 }, "october": { "low": 7.1, "high": 13.9 }, "november": { "low": 0.5, "high": 7.8 }, "december": { "low": -5.9, "high": 1.2 } }, "wintersAsPercentOfAverage": { "2016/17": 111, "2017/18": 102, "2018/19": 118, "2019/20": 92, "2020/21": 94, "2021/22": 118, "2022/23": 90, "2023/24": 85, "2024/25": 109, "2025/26": 81 }, "holidays": { "christmas": { "years": 10, "yearsWithSnowOnGround": 10, "yearsWithFreshSnow": 10 }, "newYear": { "years": 10, "yearsWithSnowOnGround": 10, "yearsWithFreshSnow": 10 }, "midFebruary": { "years": 10, "yearsWithSnowOnGround": 10, "yearsWithFreshSnow": 10 }, "easter": { "years": 10, "yearsWithSnowOnGround": 10, "yearsWithFreshSnow": 2 }, "midJuly": { "years": 10, "yearsWithSnowOnGround": 0, "yearsWithFreshSnow": 0 } }, "note": "Absolute snowfall and depth are not published: ERA5 underestimates them in mountain terrain." }, "sources": [ { "label": "Nozawa Onsen ski resort info", "url": "https://en.nozawaski.com/the-mountain/moutain-info/ski-resort-map/" }, { "label": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozawa_Onsen_Snow_Resort" }, { "label": "Skiresort.info (Nozawa Onsen)", "url": "https://www.skiresort.com/en/ski-resort/nozawa-onsen/" } ], "methodology": "https://snowingplaces.com/methodology/", "attribution": "snowingplaces.com. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com." }