Harper Pass
- Tonight
- 5°CLight rain · Wind 25 km/h NW
Harper Pass is a mountain pass at 959 m in West Coast Region, New Zealand.
All facts
- Saddle
- 959 m
- Lowest point
- 873 m / 757 m
Harper Pass: the climb from each side
Crossed by: Harper Pass Route
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Harper Pass 3D map
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Harper Pass terrain and contours
50 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.
Harper Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Harper Pass weather
Today · Light rain · 5 / 11°C (41 / 52°F) · 1.5 mm · Wind 25 km/h NW
Harper Pass forecast for about 959 m.
- Today5°11°1.5 mm25 km/h NW
- Sun6°9°17.4 mm33 km/h NW
- Mon6°9°86.8 mm45 km/h NW
- Tue1°9°3.0 mm19 km/h NW
- Wed3°4°38.3 mm26 km/h NW
- Thu0°5°4.3 mm22 km/h NW
- Fri3°5°7.2 mm24 km/h W
- Sat5°7°6.9 mm17 km/h NW
- Sun7°8°81.3 mm27 km/h NW
- Mon2°12°11.8 mm15 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 near Harper Pass
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Harper Pass, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Harper Pass Bivvy
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Harper Pass BivvyHut | 1.2 km ENE |
| Hut | 1.2 km ENE |
| Locke Stream HutHut | 4.4 km WSW |
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.
- Steeper than 30°
- 63.3% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,302 m low point 499 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4 km of Harper Pass.
Summit list 4
- 1Mount Drake1,426 m 1.5 km NNE
- 2Tainui Peak1,745 m 2.1 km SE
- 3Mount Wilson1,539 m 2.4 km WNW
- 4Mount Byrne1,448 m 2.9 km SW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 77 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mountain neinei6
- Mount Cook lily5
- Hakeke5
- Mountain foxglove5
- Lancewood tree daisy4
- Prickly Shield Fern3
Where Harper Pass sits
- Region
- West Coast Region6New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
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- 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)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- 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)