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Mount Ruapehu
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- -5°CFog · Wind 21 km/h NW
Mount Ruapehu is a 2,797 m (9,177 ft) volcano in the North Island Volcanic Plateau, Manawatū-Whanganui Region, New Zealand.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,797 m · 9,177 ft
- Prominence
- 2,797 m · 9,177 ft
- Range
- North Island Volcanic Plateau
- Region
- Manawatū-Whanganui Region, New Zealand
- Protected area
- Tongariro National Park
- Spanish name
- Ruapehu
- Coordinates
- 39.2896° S, 175.5629° E
Mount Ruapehu 3D map
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Mount Ruapehu topographic map
100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Tūroa Village. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mount Ruapehu downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How to get to the top of Mount Ruapehu
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end near Tūroa Village
- Distance
- 4.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,139 m−7 m (3,737 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3 h
- Difficulty
- T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Ruapehu weather
Today · Fair · -5 / 4°C (23 / 39°F) · Wind 21 km/h NW
Mount Ruapehu forecast for the summit, about 2,797 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,630 m.
- Today-5°4°–21 km/h NWBase 2 / 11°
- Sun-5°4°–19 km/h WBase 2 / 10°
- Mon-5°3°3.7 mm34 km/h NWBase 2 / 9°
- Tue-9°1°24.9 mm23 km/h NWBase -3 / 8°
- Wed-9°-2°5.5 mm19 km/h WBase -2 / 5°
- Thu-7°-2°14.7 mm24 km/h WBase 0 / 5°
- Fri-8°-1°–24 km/h SWBase -1 / 6°
- Sat-6°2°–14 km/h WBase 1 / 8°
- Sun-4°2°2.7 mm17 km/h NBase 3 / 8°
- Mon-3°1°24.3 mm24 km/h NBase 4 / 8°
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.
Camping & parking near Mount Ruapehu
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Ruapehu, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Whangaehu Hut
Nearest parking
3.7 km WSW
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Whangaehu HutHut | 2.4 km ENE |
| Parking | 3.7 km WSW |
| NZAC Ruapehu HutHut | 4.2 km N |
| Muat HutHut | 4.9 km WSW |
| Iwikau Ski VillageParking | 5.9 km N |
| Parking | 6.0 km N |
How steep is the route to Mount Ruapehu?
The easiest mapped route, 4.5 km from 1,630 m to 2,797 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°2.7 km
- 15–30°1.8 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 7.6 km, measured from the Mount Ruapehu summit.
Summit list 9
- 1Te Ataahua2,757 m 0.6 km NW
- 2Girdlestone Peak2,658 m 1.0 km SSE
- 3Pyramid Peak2,645 m 1.0 km NNE
- 4Paretetaitonga2,751 m 1.6 km NNW
- 5Dome2,672 m 1.6 km N
- 6Cathedral Rocks2,663 m 1.9 km NNE
- 7Glacier Knob2,642 m 2.3 km N
- 8Tukino Peak2,720 m 2.8 km NNE
- 9Te Heuheu2,732 m 2.9 km NNE
Where Mount Ruapehu sits
- Region
- Manawatū-Whanganui Region5New Zealand112Oceania282
- Protected area
- Tongariro National Park6
Nearby places
How accurate is this?
25 m low This 3D map reads 2,772 m at the summit; the official height is 2,797 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 41 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,797 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,772 m | -25 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,756 m | -41 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 2025-03-20)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- 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