Niseko Now: Saturday 1st November 2025
- Nov 1, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Niseko region of Hokkaido
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 2cm
Hello everybody.
As always, the end of the 2024-2025 ski season back in May seems like a long time ago. But at the same time, it feels like it was about a week ago. How does that happen?
Now that we have survived the (very not pleasant, if you ask me) hot summer weather, we can look forward to upcoming snowy goodness and hopefully a jolly pleasant winter season.
We have had a bunch of varied weather conditions recently as the seasons continue to change. It is raining at the moment down at base. But we have been able to enjoy some lovely autumn foliage, and we have also received our first snowfall of the season — yey. That is always very excite.
While that first glimpse of snow has now disappeared from base areas, it was still snow. As such, it has a rightful place within these reports. So that's what the initial 2cm reported today is, even if it was from late October. (The reporting system only allows new season reports once we enter November).
I am still waking up after my 'hibernation' and starting to get into the right mindset for winter. I have various thoughts to impart, but I will leave those for future reports. For now, though, I just wanted to say hello. It is good to be back.
Fingers crossed I'll be able to report large amounts of beautiful snowfall this season. As always, whatever nature decides to bring us, I'm here to simply tell you about it. The good, the bad, whatever; always the truth.
I will post further reports here from time to time over the coming weeks to let you know how the incoming snow is shaping up.
For the record, the Niseko United ski areas all plan to open on Saturday, 29th November.
Anyway, time for some toast!
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Data as of Saturday 1st November 2025 Total snowfall at base so far 2cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 1 day Most snowfall observed in 1 day 2cm (1st November) November 2025 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Kutchan/Niseko. 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.