Best time to visit Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort

The climate in Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort through the year

When to go

No month in Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort reaches a good score (65 or more) with the default preferences. May comes closest with 58 out of 100. A typical May day reaches 20°C and the night falls to 8°C, with rain on about 17 days and clear sky 34 % of the time. June and September are a fair alternative, with scores of 50–50. The lowest score is in March (21), when days are cool at around 9°C.

Seasons and rain

The seasons are sharply different: a August day (27°C) is about 24 degrees warmer than a January day (4°C). Nights typically drop below freezing in December–March. July is the wettest month with 205 mm and January the driest with 41 mm, out of about 1,360 mm a year.

Daylight

Daylight lasts from about 9.5 hours in December to 14.5 hours in June. Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort lies about 950 m above sea level, which makes it roughly 6 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. Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort scores 65 or more in these months:

• Hiking (10–22 °C): November, up to 66
• Cooler weather (10–20 °C): March–May and October–December, up to 86

How it compares

Of the 191 destinations Eddigo covers in Japan, Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort is the 77th warmest over the year and the 24th driest. In May, when Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort scores 58, Palcall Tsumagoi Ski Resort (30 km away) scores 44 and Kusatsu Onsen Ski Resort (33 km away) scores 39. See where to go in May for the best destinations that month.