Nozawa Now: Wednesday 4th February 2026
- Feb 4
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 617cm
Posted on Wednesday 4th February 2026 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Hello from a sunny Nozawa.
I was up on one of the first gondolas this morning. Research. For this 'job'. I'm sure you can understand. The fun that I had whilst doing my research was just a bonus!
We have clear blue skies and sunshine mid-morning. It was cold early on, but has started to warm up a bit now and we do expect a few days of relative warmth. Saying that, hopefully it won't get much over 5C.
Snow is due again from Friday and temps are also set to take a big dip too. So it should be back to mid-winter.
For now, though, beautiful weather to be out enjoying the snow.
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 0cm
Uenotaira: 0cm
Hikage: 0cm
Nagasaka: 0cm
Karasawa: 0cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 275cm
Uenotaira: 245cm
Hikage: 180cm
Nagasaka: 160cm
Karasawa: 140cm
Scheduled lift operations:
All operating except Challenge pair and Utopia pair [normal weekday operations]
Courses that are not available (when the ski area is operating as normal):
All open
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Wednesday 4th February 2026 Total snowfall at base 617cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 37 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 76cm (on 25th January) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 134cm reported on 11 days January 2026 snowfall 438cm reported on 22 days February 2026 snowfall 30cm reported on 3 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.