Furano Now: Friday 19th December 2025
- Dec 19, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Furano region of Hokkaido
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 255cm
Posted on Friday 19th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Furano Now report can be found here.
The Furano resort has announced they will open the Kitanomine Zone TOMORROW, two days ahead of schedule. This is exciting news as now the other half of the mountain will now be accessible. Unfortunately, they have also pre-announced that the Kitanomine Gondola will NOT be open tomorrow. Ah well.
A puff of snow overnight, good cold temps today. Enjoy it, because tomorrow will not be so pleasant. The current prognostications for Sat/Sun are highs of +8 and +9 C, and fairly windy. Worse, there's even some r@!n in the forecast. Sigh. The only good news appears to be on Sunday afternoon/evening the temps will drop again and the little snowman reappears in the weather report.
Six more shopping days until Christmas.
Think snow.
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Ropeway + Lift D 8:30 -- 15:10
Lift B (aka Furano Quad) 9:00 -- 15:10
Lift C 8:40 -- 18:00
Snow Escalator (aka Magic Carpet) 9:00 - 12:30; 1:30 - 3:30
*The A2 & B1 runs are open all the way to the base.
Furano Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Friday 19th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 255cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 21 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (6th December) November 2025 snowfall 45cm reported on 5 days December 2025 snowfall 210cm reported on 16 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Furano. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.