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Mountain · Kaikōura Ranges · Canterbury Region

Manakau

2,608 m8,556 ft

Prominence: 1,803 m5,917 ft
Isolation: 24 km
Tonight: -2°CClear · Wind 14 km/h W

Manakau is a 2,608 m (8,556 ft) mountain in the Kaikōura Ranges, Canterbury Region, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 2,608 m · 8,556 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Alarm (2,877 m)
Range: Kaikōura Ranges
Region: Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Spanish name: Monte Manakau
Coordinates: 42.2251° S, 173.6174° E

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3D map

Manakau 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 11.2 × 11.2 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Manakau 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.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Manakau elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Manakau weather

Today · Fair · -2 / 12°C (28 / 54°F) · Wind 14 km/h W

Manakau forecast for the summit, about 2,608 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 250 m.

Today-2°12°–14 km/h WBase 12 / 26°
Sun-3°9°–14 km/h NBase 11 / 23°
Mon-2°6°4.6 mm33 km/h NBase 12 / 20°
Tue-8°1°5.8 mm6 km/h SWBase 6 / 16°
Wed-9°1°–16 km/h NWBase 5 / 15°
Thu-8°1°0.9 mm16 km/h WBase 6 / 15°
Fri-9°1°–8 km/h SWBase 6 / 15°
Sat-5°6°–6 km/h WBase 9 / 20°
Sun-2°5°0.6 mm11 km/h NWBase 13 / 19°
Mon-8°4°4.3 mm10 km/h NBase 7 / 18°

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 11.2 × 11.2 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.

Gentle, 0–15°

3.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

21.4%

Steep, 30–45°

66.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

8.8%

Steeper than 30°: 75.4% of the 125 km² view
Relief in view: 2,344 m low point 250 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 54.4%Grassland 29.4%Trees 10.4%Shrubland 5.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 5.6 km, measured from the Manakau summit.

Summit list 4

1Uwerau2,213 m 3.0 km SSE
2Surveyor Peak2,365 m 3.6 km ENE
3Mount Saunders2,146 m 4.9 km SW
4Mount Stace1,167 m 4.9 km SE

Where it sits

Where Manakau sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Lewis Pass863 m102 km W

Downloads

Manakau downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGManakau satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-05.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

14 m low This 3D map reads 2,594 m at the summit; the official height is 2,608 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,608 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,594 m	-14 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,587 m	-21 m

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 2026-03-05)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Accuracy comparison, 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 · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia