TL;DR
The 2026 Australian ski season opens on Kings Birthday weekend - 6 to 8 June - and the timing couldn't be better. A natural snowfall event is tracking across the Alps right now, with Perisher forecast to pick up 43.3cm and Thredbo 35.6cm over the next 10 days. Cooler temperatures from the start of June will also get the snow guns running. Not a blockbuster opening - but a genuinely solid one. Here's the full breakdown.
Natural snowfall is tracking across the Australian Alps right now, arriving almost perfectly timed for Kings Birthday opening weekend - 6 to 8 June 2026.
The SnowStash 10-day forecast shows meaningful accumulations building across all major resorts, with the NSW snowfields leading the charge. Perisher is forecast to receive 43.3cm over the next 10 days, with Thredbo close behind at 35.6cm. Victorian resorts are picking up less but the cooler temperatures arriving from the start of June will be the more important factor for most of them - snowmaking conditions rather than natural snow is how the Victorian season gets started.
The Forecast by Resort
Reading the 10-day numbers across the network:
Perisher leads all resorts with 43.3cm forecast, the bulk of it arriving mid-to-late this week. Thredbo sits at 35.6cm. is forecast to receive 16.9cm, with at 8cm and at 6.5cm. , , and are in lower single digits - 2.9cm, 1.5cm, and 1.3cm respectively - but all will benefit from the temperature drop enabling snowmaking operations.
