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Lewis Pass
- Tonight
- 5°CCloudy · Wind 29 km/h W
Lewis Pass is a mountain pass at 861 m in Canterbury Region, New Zealand.
All facts
- Saddle
- 861 m
- Lowest point
- 796 m / 696 m
Lewis Pass: the climb from each side
No mapped road or trail crosses the saddle.
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Lewis Pass 3D map
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Lewis 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.
Lewis Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lewis Pass weather
Today · Partly cloudy · 5 / 14°C (41 / 57°F) · Wind 29 km/h W
Lewis Pass forecast for about 861 m.
- Today5°14°–29 km/h W
- Sun6°12°0.2 mm33 km/h NW
- Mon7°11°32.6 mm44 km/h NW
- Tue2°9°1.3 mm22 km/h NW
- Wed4°7°19.1 mm34 km/h NW
- Thu2°6°5.7 mm24 km/h NW
- Fri4°6°1.7 mm26 km/h W
- Sat6°10°1.2 mm27 km/h W
- Sun8°10°20.9 mm27 km/h NW
- Mon3°12°6.0 mm21 km/h NW
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 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°
- 53.1% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,253 m low point 597 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 4 km; 579 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Yellow Mistletoe80
- Mountain Astelia71
- Coral lichen66
- Celmisia discolor59
- Mountain toatoa54
- Bog pine50
Where Lewis Pass sits
- Region
- Canterbury Region22New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
Lake Tennyson1,102 m↑34 km NE
Rotomairewhenua / Blue Lake1,185 m↑42 km NNE
Harper Pass962 m↑58 km SW
Lake Rotoroa↑62 km NNE
Buller Gorge↑69 km NNW
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- Land cover
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- Facts
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- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)