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Mountain · Forbes Mountains · Otago Region

Mount Head

2,585 m8,481 ft

Prominence: 567 m1,862 ft
Isolation: 7.2 km
Tonight: -4°CSnow · Wind 14 km/h NW

Mount Head is a 2,585 m (8,481 ft) mountain in the Forbes Mountains, Otago Region, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 2,585 m · 8,481 ft
Nearest higher peak: Sir William Peak (2,610 m)
Range: Forbes Mountains
Region: Otago Region, New Zealand
Protected area: Mount Aspiring National Park
Coordinates: 44.5568° S, 168.4301° E

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3D map

Mount Head 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Head 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

Mount Head elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Head weather

Today · Snow at night · -4 / 0°C (25 / 32°F) · 3.0 mm · Wind 14 km/h NW

Mount Head forecast for the summit, about 2,585 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 488 m.

Today-4°0°3.0 mm14 km/h NWBase 8 / 12°
Sun-3°0°31.9 mm17 km/h NBase 10 / 13°
Mon-10°0°87.8 mm24 km/h NWBase 2 / 13°
Tue-10°-6°1.3 mm10 km/h SWBase 3 / 7°
Wed-10°-6°49.9 mm13 km/h NWBase 2 / 6°
Thu-13°-8°6.4 mm6 km/h WBase 0 / 5°
Fri-7°-6°16.5 mm7 km/h WBase 5 / 6°
Sat-5°-3°28.7 mm8 km/h NBase 8 / 10°
Sun-6°-1°116.3 mm17 km/h NBase 6 / 11°
Mon-9°-7°22.9 mm6 km/h SEBase 3 / 6°

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

Camping & parking near Mount Head

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

Nearest hut
Daleys Flat Hut
4.5 km WNW · +2 more within 6.8 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Daleys Flat HutHut	4.5 km WNW
Shelter Rock HutHut	6.3 km E
Esquilant Bivvy HutHut	6.8 km SSW

Slope

Share of the 6.2 × 6.2 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°

9.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

35.7%

Steep, 30–45°

39.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

15.0%

Steeper than 30°: 54.9% of the 38 km² view
Relief in view: 2,089 m low point 488 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 33.2%Trees 26.4%Snow & ice 22.8%Bare rock / sparse 16.3%Water 0.9%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.1 km, measured from the Mount Head summit.

Summit list 4

1Moira Peak2,495 m 1.1 km E
2Ellie Peak2,271 m 1.6 km E
3Head Peak2,313 m 1.9 km WSW
4Osonzac Twins2,282 m 2.1 km ENE

Where it sits

Where Mount Head sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Coronet Peak1,651 m47 km SSE

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGMount Head satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-01-18.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,578 m at the summit; the official height is 2,585 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,585 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,578 m	-7 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,567 m	-18 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 2026-01-18)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Mount Head

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

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