It typically doesn’t snow in Cape Town, it’s never really cold enough. I have seen snow once in Cape Town though, but not in the city. It was a very light snowfall on the top of the mountain that surrounds the city.
If you go further inland to the Ceres mountain range it’s more common to see serious snow. I think there are some other places inland where it snows in South Africa, but I’ve never been 
Here’s a satellite photo of snow on the Drakensberg Mountains near the border between South Africa and Lesotho.
Heathen!
Absolutely positively Wellington!
Oh I don’t know. The “Southern Alps” of New Zealand sounds pretty derivative to me.
There were significant snowfalls in Sydney on 28 June 1836.
As for snowfalls in Australia, I mentioned in this thread last year my first experience of seeing snow falling in Australia. Here’s a picture of the countryside about 200kms south west of Sydney around this time last year.
I live about 100 kms outside of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia), in the Central Highlands of Victoria, and it snows at my place every winter. Mostly it’s just snow flurries and not enough to pile up on the ground, but a couple of times each winter we get enough snow to cover the ground for a day or so. This and this are photos of my back paddock last August.
The next highest point in the area is Mount Macedon, and it gets very fairly heavy snowfalls every winter, enough to block roads.
That’s not entirely true. I lived in Dunedin and it snowed often, every winter. Most of the time it didn’t fall to sea level, where the majority of the folk live, but my Mother has lived on the hills of Dunedin for the past fifteen years, variously, and always gets snow settling, sometimes a couple of feet of it, and it settles for around a week or two.
It’s not the huge blizzards like you can get in the US or Canada (or the UK, though I’m not sure how often the UK gets snowfalls anymore) but it can still be a significant part of the winter.
I once went on a camping trip through Central Otago, around the Maniototo, in September (what should be the start of spring) with a friend of mine, and the weather was gloriously warm and pleasant. We joked about waking up the next morning in an inch of snow. And weirdly enough, we woke the next morning in an inch of snow! We then drove around to a picturesque little spot hidden away, and the trees were blanketed, there were deertracks in the snow, there was a little wooden bridge… picture postcard frosted white!
I live in Perth, which is in the south-west. We have a mediterranean-style climate here, so I think the last time we had snow in this city was back in the 60’s. However, the climate gets rapidly cooler the further south you go, and in the very south of WA there’s a leetle bit of snow every winter, in the Stirling Ranges (some of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, so they’re pretty worn down and eroded).
Here’s a link to a short summary of snowfall in Australia - looks like it’s just someone’s personal site, but I believe the info is correct.
I agree with GuanoLad. To say that snow is not part of NZ life in winter is incorrect. Here in the North Island, transport along the Desert Road gets affected by snow on a regular basis during winter, with signs posted advising motorists whether the road is closed or not. North of Taupo it becomes rarer, but not entirely unknown. Last known snow for Auckland was in the Waitakere Ranges in the 1930s – and seeing as I’ve been up there at night when it’s possible to drive through clouds, I’d believe that.
My thought exactly. Who has summer in July, I ask you?
Find Macquarie Island (Aus) on a map (or in real life) and watch your teeth chatter.
Did I neglect to mention Heard Island? I do believe I did.
Does it snow in A-NZ, does it snow in A-NZ?
Yes. I lived in Dunedin as well for 13 years, what I mean is that it doesn’t snow enough for it to not be a bit of a novelty, even if it does happen a couple of times each year.
Ice Wolf I had forgotten about the Desert Road, its altitude makes it much more susceptible to snow than South Island roads are.
Non-malting cats? You mean you have malting cats there? Is that what gives New Zealand beer its distinctive flavor?
