Frying Pan Lake
- Area
- 0.04 km²
- Max depth
- 20 m
- Tonight
- 8°CPartly cloudy · Wind 17 km/h NW
Frying Pan Lake is a lake at 367 m above sea level in Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand, 0.04 km² in area and 0.3 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 367 m
- Length
- 0.3 km
- Shoreline
- 1.0 km
Frying Pan Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1.0 km≈15 min to walk around
Frying Pan Lake 3D map
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Frying Pan Lake terrain and contours
10 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.
Frying Pan Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Frying Pan Lake weather
Today · Clear · 8 / 19°C (46 / 66°F) · Wind 17 km/h NW
Frying Pan Lake forecast for about 367 m.
- Today8°19°–17 km/h NW
- Sun8°18°–18 km/h W
- Mon9°17°0.4 mm23 km/h NW
- Tue7°16°4.4 mm26 km/h NW
- Wed5°15°–18 km/h SW
- Thu9°15°2.0 mm27 km/h W
- Fri7°15°–20 km/h SW
- Sat8°17°–17 km/h W
- Sun9°17°0.3 mm16 km/h N
- Mon11°18°4.4 mm26 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 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Frying Pan Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Frying Pan Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Lake Okaro Campsite
Nearest parking
3.9 km SSW
Nearest hut
Wairua Hut
Nearest caravan site
7.6 km ESE
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Lake Okaro CampsiteCampsite | 1.5 km SSW |
| Parking | 3.9 km SSW |
| Parking | 3.9 km SSW |
| Parking | 4.7 km SSW |
| Wairua HutHut | 5.5 km NNE |
| Hot Water Beach CampsiteCampsite | 5.6 km NE |
| Campsite | 5.8 km SSE |
| Caravan site | 7.6 km ESE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 68% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 2.9% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 234 m low point 340 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 324 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Skeleton fork fern50
- Thermal ladder fern45
- Geothermal Kanuka33
- Australasian Swamphen32
- Staghorn clubmoss30
- Ladder brake27
Where Frying Pan Lake sits
- Region
- Bay of Plenty Region10New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-03-10)
- 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)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)