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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Feb · highs 15–15 °C (59–59 °F)
- J15°7°208
- F15°7°188
- M13°6°202
- A11°3°210
- M8°2°254
- J5°0°314
- J4°-1°300
- A5°-1°284
- S7°0°319
- O9°2°305
- N11°3°252
- D13°5°303
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
- 4.7 km · 2.9 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain
- Ski (mountain; GeoNames)
- Mountain range
- Mount Ruapehu (North Island Volcanic Plateau; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 25 km NE of Ohakune (Ruapehu District, Manawatu-Wanganui) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Tongariro National Park
- Best months
- Feb
- Live cam nearby
- Mt Ruapehu Live Stream from Ohakune, New Zealand (MtRuapehu, 6.0 mi · 9.6 km away)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Manawatū-Whanganui
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- -39.2112, 175.5353
- Route start
- -39.2142, 175.5426
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17834363
- Wikidata
- Q98116744
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.
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