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Lake Wānaka Lookout
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Oct–Apr · highs 11–19 °C (52–66 °F)
- J19°11°77
- F19°11°56
- M17°9°88
- A13°6°69
- M8°3°80
- J4°-1°86
- J3°-2°72
- A5°0°80
- S8°2°78
- O11°4°87
- N15°7°74
- D17°9°94
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 2.3 km · 1.4 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Crown Range (Inland Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 15 km NW of Wanaka (Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Oct–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Operator (OSM)
- DOC
- Route centre
- -44.6467, 168.9665
- Route start
- -44.6431, 168.9735
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 14880181
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.