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Pass · Canterbury Region

Arthur's Pass

906 m2,972 ft

Connects: Arthur's Pass – Candys Bend
Tonight: 5°CFog · Wind 21 km/h NW

Arthur's Pass is a mountain pass at 906 m in Canterbury Region, New Zealand. It links Arthur's Pass and Candys Bend.

All facts

Saddle: 906 m
Lowest point: 806 m / 701 m

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Arthur's Pass topographic map

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Arthur's Pass elevation profile

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Pass

Arthur's Pass: the climb from each side

Crossed by: SH 73 West Coast Road, SH 73 Ōtira Highway, Dobson Nature Walk, Dobson Nature walk

Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.

Weather

Arthur's Pass weather

Today · Cloudy · 5 / 12°C (41 / 54°F) · 0.4 mm · Wind 21 km/h NW

Arthur's Pass forecast for about 906 m.

Today5°12°0.4 mm21 km/h NW
Sun6°11°12.9 mm31 km/h NW
Mon6°9°98.2 mm45 km/h NW
Tue0°8°2.1 mm21 km/h NW
Wed3°5°35.6 mm25 km/h NW
Thu0°6°3.8 mm25 km/h NW
Fri3°6°7.3 mm23 km/h NW
Sat6°8°12.5 mm13 km/h NW
Sun7°8°107.0 mm33 km/h NW
Mon2°12°13.1 mm13 km/h N

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, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Arthur's Pass

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Arthur's Pass, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
0.0 km SW
+2 more within 0.6 km
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Nearest hut
Canterbury University Snow Sports Club (CUSSC) Lodge
1.3 km E · +2 more within 1.4 km
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Nearest campsite
Avalanche Creek Shelter Campsite
3.8 km S
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All mapped places 7

Place	Distance
Parking	0.0 km SW
Temple Basin Track and Skifield CarparkParking	0.4 km S
Temple Basin Track and Skifield Lower CarparkParking	0.6 km S
Canterbury University Snow Sports Club (CUSSC) LodgeHut	1.3 km E
Jacks HutHut	1.4 km S
Ferrier Lodge (Temple Basin Ski Area)Hut	1.4 km E
Avalanche Creek Shelter CampsiteCampsite	3.8 km S

Slope

Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°

5.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

27.2%

Steep, 30–45°

54.3%

Cliffs, 45° and over

13.0%

Steeper than 30°: 67.3% of the 64 km² view
Relief in view: 1,698 m low point 546 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 42.0%Bare rock / sparse 28.4%Trees 23.1%Snow & ice 4.2%Shrubland 2.3%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 4 km of Arthur's Pass.

Summit list 7

1Mount Cassidy1,850 m 2.3 km ESE
2Blimit1,921 m 2.7 km ESE
3Mount Temple1,913 m 2.8 km ENE
4Phipps Peak1,965 m 2.9 km ENE
5Mount Philistine1,967 m 3.5 km NW
6Mount Rolleston2,275 m 3.8 km W
7Mount Stuart1,906 m 3.9 km NNE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 991 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Kea853
Mount Cook lily399
Large Mountain Daisy320
Celmisia discolor246
South Island Edelweiss227
Haumakāroa218

Where it sits

Where Arthur's Pass sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Mount HuttPeak · 2,086 m63 km S

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Sources

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 2026-03-23)
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
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia

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