Mount Tarawera
- Mapped trail
- 0.8 km+31 m · about 0.5 hEnds 780 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 665 m2,183 ft
- Isolation
- 57 km
- Tonight
- 4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 15 km/h NW
Mount Tarawera is a 1,111 m (3,645 ft) mountain in Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,111 m · 3,645 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Maungahaumi (1,213 m)
- Region
- Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand
- Spanish name
- Tarawera
- Coordinates
- 38.2263° S, 176.5076° E
Trails toward Mount Tarawera
Mapped trails from the road get to 780 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
From Road end, 4.8 km N of Mount Tarawera
- Distance
- 0.8 kmone way
- Climb
- +31 m−23 m (102 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Ends 780 m below the summit.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Tarawera 3D map
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Mount Tarawera terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. 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 Tarawera weather
Today · Partly cloudy · 4 / 15°C (39 / 59°F) · Wind 15 km/h NW
Mount Tarawera forecast for the summit, about 1,111 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 300 m.
- Today4°15°–15 km/h NWBase 9 / 20°
- Sun4°14°–18 km/h WBase 9 / 19°
- Mon5°12°0.4 mm19 km/h NWBase 10 / 17°
- Tue3°11°4.8 mm21 km/h NWBase 8 / 16°
- Wed1°11°–17 km/h SWBase 6 / 16°
- Thu5°11°1.2 mm25 km/h WBase 10 / 16°
- Fri3°11°–17 km/h SWBase 8 / 16°
- Sat4°13°–15 km/h WBase 9 / 18°
- Sun5°13°0.4 mm14 km/h NBase 10 / 18°
- Mon7°13°3.1 mm23 km/h NBase 12 / 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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Tarawera
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Tarawera, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Lake Tarawera Outlet Campsite
Nearest hut
5.9 km NNW
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Lake Tarawera Outlet CampsiteCampsite | 4.6 km N |
| Rerewhakaaitu, Ash Pit Road CampsiteCampsite | 5.8 km S |
| Hut | 5.9 km NNW |
| Rerewhakaaitu, Brett Road CampsiteCampsite | 6.5 km S |
| Wairua HutHut | 7.5 km WSW |
How steep is the route to Mount Tarawera?
The easiest mapped route, 0.8 km from 300 m to 308 m. Steepest stretch: 33°.
- 0–15°0.7 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 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 3.3 km, measured from the Mount Tarawera summit.
Summit list 5
- 1Wahanga Dome1,025 m 1.6 km NE
- 2Kanakana925 m 1.6 km ESE
- 3Koa1,024 m 1.9 km SW
- 4Tarawera Dome874 m 2.3 km WSW
- 5Ridge Dome830 m 2.8 km ESE
Where Mount Tarawera sits
- Region
- Bay of Plenty Region10New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
Mount Tarawera downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
23 m low This 3D map reads 1,088 m at the summit; the official height is 1,111 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,111 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,088 m | -23 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,085 m | -26 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 2025-03-10)
- 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