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Mountain · Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana · Canterbury Region

Aoraki / Mount Cook

3,724 m12,218 ft

Isolation: at least 200 km
Tonight: -16°CPartly cloudy · Wind 10 km/h NW

Aoraki / Mount Cook is a 3,724 m (12,218 ft) mountain in the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, Canterbury Region, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 3,724 m · 12,218 ft
Prominence: 3,724 m · 12,218 ft
Range: Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana
Region: Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Protected area: Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
Spanish name: monte Cook
Coordinates: 43.5954° S, 170.1421° E

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3D map

Aoraki / Mount Cook 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Aoraki / Mount Cook topographic map

200 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 1,000 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGAoraki / Mount Cook satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-21.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Route

Trails toward Aoraki / Mount Cook

Mapped trails from the road get to 2,190 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.

From Road end, 7.9 km SSE of Aoraki / Mount Cook

Distance: 6.9 kmone way
Climb: +786 m−204 m (2,579 ft up)
Time up: about 3 h
Difficulty: T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling

Aoraki / Mount Cook elevation profile

Ends 2,190 m below the summit.

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Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

Weather

Aoraki / Mount Cook weather

Today · Fair · -16 / -9°C (3 / 16°F) · Wind 10 km/h NW

Aoraki / Mount Cook forecast for the summit, about 3,724 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 890 m.

Today-16°-9°–10 km/h NWBase 1 / 9°
Sun-11°-9°25.4 mm21 km/h NWBase 6 / 9°
Mon-18°-9°167.6 mm30 km/h NWBase 0 / 10°
Tue-19°-13°2.2 mm5 km/h WBase -2 / 5°
Wed-15°-13°64.3 mm10 km/h NWBase 2 / 5°
Thu-22°-15°8.1 mm7 km/h NWBase -6 / 3°
Fri-15°-14°16.5 mm8 km/h NBase 2 / 3°
Sat-11°-10°38.0 mm10 km/h NBase 5 / 7°
Sun-10°-10°155.4 mm17 km/h NWBase 7 / 8°
Mon-14°-9°7.9 mm6 km/h SEBase 2 / 5°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Aoraki / Mount Cook

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Aoraki / Mount Cook, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Empress Hut
1.6 km W · +2 more within 5.1 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
6.8 km S
Directions Map

All mapped places 4

Place	Distance
Empress HutHut	1.6 km W
Plateau HutHut	3.6 km ENE
Ball HutHut	5.1 km SE
Campsite	6.8 km S

Slope

How steep is the route to Aoraki / Mount Cook?

The easiest mapped route, 6.9 km from 890 m to 1,471 m. Steepest stretch: 37°.

0 km · 890 m6.9 km · 1,471 m

0–15°6.0 km
15–30°0.7 km
30–45°0.2 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 70 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 42.4%Bare rock / sparse 28.8%Grassland 16.0%Trees 6.4%Water 5.9%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 9.4 km, measured from the Aoraki / Mount Cook summit.

Summit list 9

1Mount Dampier3,440 m 0.7 km NNW
2Middle Peak3,717 m 0.9 km S
3Mount Vancouver3,309 m 1.1 km N
4Mount Hicks / Saint Davids Dome3,198 m 1.4 km NW
5Low Peak3,593 m 1.5 km S
6Mount Graham3,184 m 2.5 km NNE
7Silberhorn3,300 m 2.9 km NNE
8Mount Tasman3,497 m 3.5 km NNE
9Lendenfeld Peak3,194 m 4.5 km NNE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 9.4 km; 258 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Little hard fern11
Creeping Wire Vine9
Large Mountain Daisy9
Epilobium melanocaulon9
Scarlet snowberry9
Sigaus nivalis9

Where it sits

Where Aoraki / Mount Cook sits

Ranked in 1

#28 Country high points

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Lake Matheson100 m23 km NW

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

66 m low This 3D map reads 3,658 m at the summit; the official height is 3,724 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 77 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,724 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,658 m	-66 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,647 m	-77 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-03-21)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Aoraki / Mount Cook

West → east through the summit

From Road end, 7.9 km SSE of Aoraki / Mount Cook

Nearest hut

Nearest campsite

Data sources