Mountain · Waikato Region

Mount Karioi

756 m2,480 ft

Prominence: 612 m2,008 ft
Isolation: 27 km
Tonight: 8°CCloudy · Wind 21 km/h W

Mount Karioi is a 756 m (2,480 ft) mountain in Waikato Region, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 756 m · 2,480 ft
Nearest higher peak: Pirongia Mountain (959 m)
Region: Waikato Region, New Zealand
Coordinates: 37.8649° S, 174.8018° E

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3D map

Mount Karioi 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Karioi terrain and contours

25 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 125 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Karioi elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Karioi weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 8 / 12°C (46 / 54°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 21 km/h W

Mount Karioi forecast for the summit, about 756 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 0 m.

Today8°12°0.2 mm21 km/h WBase 12 / 17°
Sun9°12°0.7 mm23 km/h WBase 13 / 16°
Mon9°12°2.0 mm30 km/h NWBase 13 / 17°
Tue8°12°11.4 mm35 km/h NWBase 12 / 16°
Wed7°11°0.6 mm21 km/h WBase 12 / 15°
Thu9°12°2.8 mm31 km/h WBase 13 / 16°
Fri9°11°0.1 mm33 km/h SWBase 13 / 15°
Sat8°12°0.6 mm17 km/h SWBase 13 / 16°
Sun9°13°0.2 mm17 km/h NEBase 13 / 17°
Mon11°16°13.6 mm27 km/h NBase 15 / 20°

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 Karioi

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

Nearest parking
Swanns Car Park
2.6 km S · +2 more within 4.2 km
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Nearest campsite
Ruapuke Motorcamp
3.9 km SW · +2 more within 7.6 km
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Nearest trailhead
Te Ara Kākāriki
7.4 km NNE
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All mapped places 7

Place	Distance
Swanns Car ParkParking	2.6 km S
Te Toto Gorge Car ParkParking	3.5 km NW
Ruapuke MotorcampCampsite	3.9 km SW
Parking	4.2 km WSW
Solscape CampsiteCampsite	4.5 km NNE
Te Ara KākārikiTrailhead	7.4 km NNE
Te Kopua Whanau CampCampsite	7.6 km NNE

Slope

Share of the 6.4 × 6.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

48.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

41.8%

Steep, 30–45°

9.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.2%

Steeper than 30°: 10.1% of the 41 km² view
Relief in view: 743 m low point 0 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 55.8%Grassland 43.4%Water 0.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Mount Karioi sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Matukutūreia / McLaughlins MountainPeak · 73 m95 km N

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

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

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

13 m low This 3D map reads 743 m at the summit; the official height is 756 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	756 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	743 m	-13 m
Copernicus GLO-90	733 m	-23 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 2026-03-03)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Accuracy comparison: 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

Mount Karioi

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Nearest trailhead

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