Nozawa Now: Monday 26th February 2024
- Feb 26, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 13, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 430cm
Posted on Monday 26th February 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
A several cm of snowfall down around base areas overnight with the ski area reporting up to 9cm (by 10am this morning) in upper areas.
Snow has been forecast but as I write this report there is some blue sky and a bit of sun even. Hopefully that might be temporary and we can get back to the fresh snow!
(Limited visibility up on the top areas, so varying weather across the mountain).
Come on!!!
Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 9cm
Uenotaira: 9cm
Hikage: 4cm
Nagasaka: 4cm
Karasawa: 1cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 170cm
Uenotaira: 140cm
Hikage: 55cm
Nagasaka: 50cm
Karasawa: 30cm
All lifts scheduled to operate apart from these:
Challenge pair (usually closed on weekdays)
Utopia pair (usually closed on weekdays)
Yunomine
Mizunashi
Karasawa
Kandahar
All courses apart from the following are now open:
Skyline (lower section)
Jumping
Hachiman
Kurokura
Utopia B
Schneider southern
Kandahar
Mukobayashi
Nozawa Now 2023-2024 season |
Data as of Monday 26th February 2024 Total snowfall at base 430cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 40 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 64cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 93cm reported on 10 days January 2024 snowfall 219cm reported on 14 days February 2024 snowfall 97cm reported on 14 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Nozawa Onsen. 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.