No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.
Mount Buller, in Australia, runs from 1,388 m at the base to 1,777 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.2 km across, with 99 marked runs and 21 lifts (about 47 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 73 cm of snowfall a season, 2,638th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 7th in Australia. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017 (160 cm), brought more than 6 times as much as the leanest, 2026 (24 cm). Snowfall days average −1.7°C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 6th of 10 in Australia.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Only 49% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (42%).
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Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
The most snow falls in August. September brings 50% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Australia (49%). In amount, September brings 11 cm, less than the median of 23 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 73 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2026 with 24 cm; the biggest was 2017 with 160 cm (6.7 times as much). For 70% of the 10 ski areas in Australia the leanest winter was 2015; here it was a different one.
Snowfall each winter (June–September total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.
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