Lake Pukaki
- Area
- 171 km²
- Tonight
- 8°CFair · Wind 23 km/h NW
Lake Pukaki is a lake at 532 m above sea level in Canterbury Region, New Zealand, 171 km² in area and 31.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 532 m
- Length
- 31.8 km
- Shoreline
- 89.8 km
Lake Pukaki in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 89.8 km
Lake Pukaki 3D map
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Lake Pukaki terrain and contours
100 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.
Lake Pukaki elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Pukaki weather
Today · Clear · 8 / 17°C (46 / 63°F) · Wind 23 km/h NW
Lake Pukaki forecast for about 532 m.
- Today8°17°–23 km/h NW
- Sun10°16°1.1 mm19 km/h W
- Mon8°15°65.8 mm50 km/h NW
- Tue4°10°–14 km/h SW
- Wed6°10°11.0 mm9 km/h NW
- Thu1°9°0.6 mm16 km/h NW
- Fri7°10°0.9 mm9 km/h NW
- Sat10°13°5.3 mm10 km/h N
- Sun10°12°65.3 mm8 km/h NE
- Mon4°7°9.0 mm9 km/h E
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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Pukaki
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Pukaki, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Tapataia Mahaka Peters Lookout Car Park
Nearest caravan site
Pines Camp Freedom Camping
Nearest campsite
Lake Pukaki Camping Area
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Tapataia Mahaka Peters Lookout Car ParkParking | 3.9 km NW |
| Parking | 4.5 km WSW |
| Parking | 6.6 km S |
| Pines Camp Freedom CampingCaravan site | 7.4 km S |
| Pines Camp Freedom CampingCaravan site | 7.4 km S |
| Lake Pukaki Camping AreaCampsite | 7.6 km S |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 79% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.3% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,729 m low point 467 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.
Where Lake Pukaki sits
- Region
- Canterbury Region22New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
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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 2026-03-21)
- 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)
- 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)