How much snow falls in each Japanese prefecture?

TL;DR

In the Japan Meteorological Agency's 1991–2020 normals, the most snow falls in a year at Aomori's station, 青森 (567 cm), then Hokkaido's, 札幌 (479 cm), and Yamagata's, 山形 (285 cm).327 These are city weather stations, one per prefecture, not ski areas, and the table below gives all 47.

A bus on a road in heavy snow, Hakuba, Japan
A bus on a road in heavy snow, Hakuba, Japan. Photo by Han Sen on Pexels.

How much snow falls a year at each prefecture's station?

Yearly normals for 1991–2020 at one weather station per prefecture: the total depth of snowfall in a year, the deepest snow on the ground, and the number of days with snow.2 Values are printed exactly as the agency prints them.

Snow normals, 1991–2020, one station per prefecture (Japan Meteorological Agency)
PrefectureStationSnowfall a year (cm)Deepest snow (cm)Days with snow
Hokkaido 北海道札幌4792972134.52
Aomori 青森県青森56731013119.53
Iwate 岩手県盛岡2094364111.04
Miyagi 宮城県仙台59516581.45
Akita 秋田県秋田2736376108.96
Yamagata 山形県山形2857517105.77
Fukushima 福島県福島122826887.08
Ibaraki 茨城県水戸1297921.99
Tochigi 栃木県宇都宮181091023.610
Gunma 群馬県前橋1911111126.111
Saitama 埼玉県さいたま///12///12–
Chiba 千葉県千葉71351317.713
Tokyo 東京都東京8146148.514
Kanagawa 神奈川県横浜91571517.715
Niigata 新潟県新潟13916321690.516
Toyama 富山県富山25317511771.817
Ishikawa 石川県金沢15718321873.918
Fukui 福井県福井18619481969.219
Yamanashi 山梨県甲府2320152019.420
Nagano 長野県長野16321332185.621
Gifu 岐阜県岐阜3422152233.422
Shizuoka 静岡県静岡0230234.123
Aichi 愛知県名古屋122482423.724
Mie 三重県津62542526.525
Shiga 滋賀県大津///26///26–
Kyoto 京都府京都152772744.527
Osaka 大阪府大阪12812813.928
Hyogo 兵庫県神戸12912926.929
Nara 奈良県奈良53033033.930
Wakayama 和歌山県和歌山13113125.431
Tottori 鳥取県鳥取14032373254.732
Shimane 島根県松江6833203350.533
Okayama 岡山県岡山13413424.434
Hiroshima 広島県広島83553533.635
Yamaguchi 山口県山口263693641.336
Tokushima 徳島県徳島23713718.837
Kagawa 香川県高松13813819.038
Ehime 愛媛県松山13903918.339
Kochi 高知県高知14014010.340
Fukuoka 福岡県福岡24124123.441
Saga 佐賀県佐賀44234222.242
Nagasaki 長崎県長崎44334318.743
Kumamoto 熊本県熊本14414417.744
Oita 大分県大分14514517.345
Miyazaki 宮崎県宮崎0460463.646
Kagoshima 鹿児島県鹿児島24734710.047
Okinawa 沖縄県那覇048---480.048

“///” is the agency's sign for no value because of missing data or no observation.1 “---” is printed as the agency prints it in these tables; its legend page does not list that sign, so we do not interpret it. A dash (–) in the last column means the station's normals table has no days-with-snow column.

What these figures cannot tell you

One station stands for a whole prefecture, and stations are mostly in cities: mountains and ski areas in the same prefecture can get far more snow. The figures are averages for 1991–2020, not a forecast for any winter.

What this page cannot tell you

  • City stations, not ski areas. Snow in the mountains of the same prefecture can be very different.
  • Averages, not forecasts.

Related: Snow and cold-weather photography · Sapporo weather by month · When is Japan's rainy season?.

Key takeaways

  • Aomori's station has the most snow in this list (567 cm a year), then Hokkaido's and Yamagata's.
  • Each figure is a 1991–2020 average at one city station per prefecture.
  • What we would skip: reading these as ski-area conditions.

Sources

Every figure comes from the Japan Meteorological Agency's normals pages, saved on 5 October 2026. See how we research.

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Changes made. We picked three columns from each station's normals table and translated the headings and prefecture names; values are as the agency prints them. 「平年値(年・月ごとの値)」(気象庁)(https://www.data.jma.go.jp/stats/etrn/)を加工して作成。 Edits by Gallivanting Gadabout.