Best time to visit Fujiten Snow Resort

The climate in Fujiten Snow Resort through the year

When to go

No month in Fujiten Snow Resort reaches a good score (65 or more) with the default preferences. May comes closest with 57 out of 100. A typical May day reaches 20°C and the night falls to 7°C, with rain on about 16 days and clear sky 33 % of the time. June is a fair alternative, with scores of 50. The lowest score is in March (23), when days are cool at around 9°C.

Seasons and rain

The seasons are sharply different: a August day (27°C) is about 23 degrees warmer than a January day (4°C). Nights typically drop below freezing in November–March. August is the wettest month with 250 mm and January the driest with 49 mm, out of about 1,730 mm a year. The air feels muggy in August.

Sea and daylight

The sea is 22°C or warmer in July–October, peaking at 27°C in August. It is coldest in February (15°C). Daylight lasts from about 10 hours in December to 14.5 hours in June. Fujiten Snow Resort lies about 1,200 m above sea level, which makes it roughly 8 degrees cooler than the lowlands around it.

By type of trip

The best months change with what you want to do. Each of Eddigo’s trip types has its own preferred daytime temperature and its own weights for rain, humidity and sun. Fujiten Snow Resort scores 65 or more in these months:

• Hiking (10–22 °C): November, up to 70
• Cooler weather (10–20 °C): March–June and October–December, up to 88

How it compares

Of the 191 destinations Eddigo covers in Japan, Fujiten Snow Resort is the 81st warmest over the year and the 62nd wettest. In May, when Fujiten Snow Resort scores 57, Shizuoka (58 km away) scores 60 and Aihara (60 km away) scores 59. See where to go in May for the best destinations that month.