🇦🇺 Australia

Selwyn Snow Resort

8 / 100 Powder Score
Thin 🌦️

Selwyn Snow Resort is a ski area in Australia. It sits at about 1,538 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 30 marked runs and 8 lifts, totalling about 8.7 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 138 cm of snowfall a season, 1719th (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. 3 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
3.2℃
Max wind
20.3km/h
Elevation
1,538m
Area
1.2km²

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) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept 0 1.4 / 8.4 20.3
☁️ 28 Sept 0 1.2 / 14.6 11.4
☁️ 29 Sept 0 0 / 14.5 13.7
☁️ 30 Sept 0 4.1 / 16.3 17.3
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 7.4 / 14.9 20.4
⛈️ 2 Oct 0 2.9 / 9.2 22.6
☁️ 3 Oct 0 1.2 / 13.1 14.6

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
30
Run length
8.7km
Lifts
8
Vertical
110m
Top 1,600 m · base 1,490 m

Run map

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

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch20°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs7.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 27%
South 46%
West 26%

Only 27% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 7
Intermediate 18
Advanced 2
Other 3

Lift types

  • Platter3
  • T-bar2
  • Chairlift2
  • Rope tow1

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.

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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
138 cm
per season
Range over three winters
90 cm
105–195 cm. The best winter was 1.9x the worst.
World rank
1719
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
5
of 10 in Australia
Elevation rank
7
Highest to lowest, of 10 in Australia. The centre point sits at 1,538 m, 56 m below the national median.
Quality rank
7
of 10 in Australia
Temp when snowing
-0.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
36%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
7%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
28 km/h
Dryness 0.16
Frequency 0.21
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.85

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 July. September brings 49% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Australia (49%). In amount, September brings 28 cm, more than the median of 23 cm.

38cm
Jun
57cm
Jul
54cm
Aug
28cm
Sep
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

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

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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