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Emerald Lakes

1,731 m5,679 ft
Tonight
1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 17 km/h SW

Emerald Lakes is a lake at 1,731 m above sea level in Waikato Region, New Zealand.

All facts
Surface elevation
1,731 m
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Emerald Lakes 3D map

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Topographic map

Emerald Lakes terrain and contours

25 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. 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 125 mShowing west → east through the centre

Emerald Lakes elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Emerald Lakes weather

Today · Fair · 1 / 10°C (34 / 50°F) · Wind 17 km/h SW

Emerald Lakes forecast for about 1,731 m.

  • Today1°10°–17 km/h SW
  • Sun1°10°–20 km/h W
  • Mon2°9°3.4 mm26 km/h NW
  • Tue-3°7°23.8 mm24 km/h NW
  • Wed-3°6°4.7 mm19 km/h W
  • Thu1°6°8.6 mm28 km/h W
  • Fri-1°7°–23 km/h SW
  • Sat0°9°0.1 mm17 km/h W
  • Sun2°8°2.5 mm14 km/h NW
  • Mon3°8°15.6 mm20 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Emerald Lakes

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

All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
Oturere HutHut4.0 km SE
Campsite5.1 km WSW
Mangatepopo HutHut5.1 km WSW
Mangatepopo CarparkParking6.4 km W
Ketetahi CarparkParking6.8 km N
Tongariro Shuttle Car ParkParking7.8 km N
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°
42.5%
Moderate, 15–30°
39.6%
Steep, 30–45°
17.1%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.7%
Steeper than 30°
17.8% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
619 m low point 1,390 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 59.1%Grassland 39.8%Water 1.1%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 2 km of Emerald Lakes.

NESW1 km2 km123
Summit list 3
  1. 1Red Crater1,868 m 0.4 km WSW
  2. 2Mount Tongariro1,978 m 1.7 km WNW
  3. 3Rotopaunga1,856 m 1.9 km NNE
Where it sits

Where Emerald Lakes sits

Region
Waikato Region13New Zealand112Oceania282
Protected area
Tongariro National Park6
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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 2025 (scene 2025-03-20)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · Wikipedia