Lake Tekapo
- Area
- 96 km²
- Max depth
- 120 m
- Tonight
- 6°CFair · Wind 28 km/h NW
Lake Tekapo is a lake at 710 m above sea level in Canterbury Region, New Zealand, 96 km² in area and 25.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 710 m
- Length
- 25.9 km
- Shoreline
- 85.3 km
Camping & parking near Lake Tekapo
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Tekapo, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
3.1 km ESE
Nearest campsite
2.5 km ESE
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite | 2.5 km ESE |
| Parking | 3.1 km ESE |
| Freedom Camping for Self Contained VehiclesCampsite | 6.2 km SSE |
| Lake McGregorCampsite | 6.3 km SW |
| Tekapo Peninsula Walkway ParkingParking | 7.7 km SSW |
Lake Tekapo in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 85.3 km
Lake Tekapo 3D map
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Lake Tekapo 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.
Lake Tekapo elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Tekapo weather
Today · Clear · 6 / 17°C (43 / 63°F) · Wind 28 km/h NW
Lake Tekapo forecast for about 710 m.
- Today6°17°–28 km/h NW
- Sun9°16°0.1 mm24 km/h NW
- Mon6°15°49.6 mm47 km/h NW
- Tue2°9°–12 km/h SW
- Wed5°11°12.0 mm26 km/h N
- Thu0°9°0.3 mm24 km/h NW
- Fri7°10°–14 km/h NW
- Sat9°13°0.5 mm17 km/h NW
- Sun10°12°46.9 mm12 km/h N
- Mon3°6°2.6 mm15 km/h SE
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.
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 78% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 6.6% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,283 m low point 708 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 Tekapo sits
- Region
- Canterbury Region22New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
Lake Tekapo downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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 2026-03-23)
- 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)
- 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)