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Inferno Crater Lake

402 m1,319 ft
Tonight
7°CPartly cloudy · Wind 17 km/h NW

Inferno Crater Lake is a lake at 402 m above sea level in Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand.

All facts
Surface elevation
402 m
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3D map

Inferno Crater Lake 3D map

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Surface
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Topographic map

Inferno Crater 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.

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Inferno Crater Lake elevation profile

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Weather

Inferno Crater Lake weather

Today · Clear · 7 / 18°C (45 / 64°F) · Wind 17 km/h NW

Inferno Crater Lake forecast for about 402 m.

  • Today7°18°–17 km/h NW
  • Sun7°17°–18 km/h W
  • Mon9°16°0.4 mm23 km/h NW
  • Tue6°15°4.4 mm26 km/h NW
  • Wed5°14°–18 km/h SW
  • Thu9°15°2.0 mm27 km/h W
  • Fri6°15°–20 km/h SW
  • Sat7°16°–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

Camping & parking near Inferno Crater Lake

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

All mapped places 8
PlaceDistance
Lake Okaro CampsiteCampsite1.8 km SSW
Parking4.3 km SSW
Parking4.3 km SSW
Parking5.1 km SSW
Wairua HutHut5.1 km NNE
Hot Water Beach CampsiteCampsite5.2 km NE
Campsite6.0 km S
Caravan site7.2 km ESE
Slope

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 71% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
70.8%
Moderate, 15–30°
26.1%
Steep, 30–45°
3.1%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
3.1% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
234 m low point 340 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 59.9%Grassland 35.0%Water 5.0%

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 Inferno Crater Lake.

NESW1 km2 km123
Summit list 3
  1. 1Hapeotoroa470 m 1.3 km NNE
  2. 2Waimangu468 m 1.4 km WSW
  3. 3Rotomahana434 m 1.8 km ENE
Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 322 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Skeleton fork fern50
  • Thermal ladder fern45
  • Black Swan41
  • Geothermal Kanuka33
  • Australasian Swamphen33
  • Staghorn clubmoss31
Where it sits

Where Inferno Crater Lake sits

Region
Bay of Plenty Region10New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
Downloads

Inferno Crater Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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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 2025-03-10)
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
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