Volcano · Northland Region

Mount Manaia

420 m1,378 ft

Prominence: 89 m292 ft
Isolation: 1.0 km
Tonight: 8°CPartly cloudy · Wind 29 km/h NE

Mount Manaia is a 420 m (1,378 ft) volcano in Northland Region, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 420 m · 1,378 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Hobson (627 m)
Region: Northland Region, New Zealand
Coordinates: 35.8163° S, 174.5185° E

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3D map

Mount Manaia 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Manaia terrain and contours

20 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 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Manaia elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Manaia weather

Today · Fair · 8 / 19°C (46 / 66°F) · Wind 29 km/h NE

Mount Manaia forecast for the summit, about 420 m.

Today8°19°–29 km/h NE
Sun8°18°0.2 mm18 km/h SW
Mon8°19°0.2 mm32 km/h NW
Tue9°19°3.9 mm28 km/h NW
Wed8°17°–12 km/h SW
Thu8°19°0.4 mm27 km/h W
Fri10°17°–25 km/h SW
Sat9°18°–9 km/h SW
Sun10°17°0.1 mm19 km/h N
Mon14°20°4.5 mm27 km/h N

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 Manaia

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

Nearest parking
Mount Manaia Lower Car Park
1.0 km SW · +2 more within 1.5 km
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Nearest campsite
1.0 km SW
+2 more within 2.2 km
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Nearest hut
Peach Cove Hut
6.2 km SE
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Nearest caravan site
Manganese Point NZMCA Park
7.6 km WNW
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All mapped places 8

Place	Distance
Parking	0.9 km SW
Mount Manaia Lower Car ParkParking	1.0 km SW
Campsite	1.0 km SW
Parking	1.5 km SW
Reotahi Beach ReserveCampsite	2.2 km WSW
Campsite	2.2 km WSW
Peach Cove HutHut	6.2 km SE
Manganese Point NZMCA ParkCaravan site	7.6 km WNW

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 75% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

74.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

20.8%

Steep, 30–45°

4.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.1%

Steeper than 30°: 4.7% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 410 m low point 0 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 34.6%Water 31.0%Grassland 29.9%Built-up 2.7%Bare rock / sparse 1.0%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 786 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Taurepo32
Paradise Shelduck26
Common Triplefin26
Akepiro25
Peperomia urvilleana25
Rough Maidenhair Fern24

Where it sits

Where Mount Manaia sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Ōhinerau / Mount HobsonPeak · 143 m121 km SSE

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGMount Manaia satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-10-19.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

17 m low This 3D map reads 403 m at the summit; the official height is 420 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	420 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	403 m	-17 m
Copernicus GLO-90	403 m	-17 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 2025 (scene 2025-10-19)
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 · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Mount Manaia

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Nearest hut

Nearest caravan site

Data sources