Best time to visit Snow Park Dorogawa

The climate in Snow Park Dorogawa through the year

When to go

No month in Snow Park Dorogawa reaches a good score (65 or more) with the default preferences. May comes closest with 61 out of 100. A typical May day reaches 20°C and the night falls to 10°C, with rain on about 15 days and clear sky 34 % of the time. June and October are a fair alternative, with scores of 50–54. The lowest score is in February (17), when days are cool at around 6°C.

Seasons and rain

The seasons are sharply different: a August day (28°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 296 mm and January the driest with 54 mm, out of about 2,200 mm a year. The air feels muggy in July and August.

Sea and daylight

The sea is 22°C or warmer in July–October, peaking at 27°C in August. It is coldest in March (16°C). Daylight lasts from about 10 hours in December to 14.5 hours in June. Snow Park Dorogawa lies about 850 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. Snow Park Dorogawa scores 65 or more in these months:

• Hiking (10–22 °C): November, up to 65
• Cooler weather (10–20 °C): March–May and October–December, up to 85

How it compares

Of the 191 destinations Eddigo covers in Japan, Snow Park Dorogawa is the 55th warmest over the year and the 7th wettest. In May, when Snow Park Dorogawa scores 61, Sakai (52 km away) scores 64 and Osaka (58 km away) scores 64. See where to go in May for the best destinations that month.