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Mount Mawson

15 / 100 Powder Score
Thin ☁️

Mount Mawson is a ski area in Australia. It sits at about 1,252 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 8 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 2.4 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 70 cm of snowfall a season, 2581st (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0.4cm
Snow 48h
0.4cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
0.2℃
Max wind
16.5km/h
Elevation
1,252m
Area
1.6km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 1.2/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 27 Sept 0 -2.7 / 2.4 16.5
☁️ 28 Sept 0 -2 / 6.8 9.4
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 -3.7 / 7.6 17.4
🌧️ 30 Sept 0 4.9 / 11.9 20.1
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 3.1 / 12.7 16.6
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 -0.5 / 7 14.3
☁️ 3 Oct 0 -2.9 / 8.3 9

Runs and lifts

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.

Marked runs
1
Run length
0.2km
Lifts
3
Vertical
25m
Top 1,245 m · base 1,220 m

Run map

Intermediate Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.2 km
Steepest pitch9°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs7.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 100%
East 0%
South 0%
West 0%

100% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Intermediate 1

Lift types

  • Rope tow3

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

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.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
70 cm
per season
Range over three winters
37 cm
47–84 cm. The best winter was 1.8x the worst.
World rank
2581
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
7
of 10 in Australia
Elevation rank
10
Highest to lowest, of 10 in Australia. The centre point sits at 1,252 m, 342 m below the national median.
Quality rank
9
of 10 in Australia
Temp when snowing
-0.9°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
62%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
3%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
26 km/h
Dryness 0.20
Frequency 0.08
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.88

The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.

The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in August. September brings as much as July, or more. In amount, September brings 20 cm, about the same as the median of 23 cm.

7cm
Jun
17cm
Jul
23cm
Aug
20cm
Sep
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Nearby resorts

No other resorts on file within 120km.

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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