The winter, wrapped
The 2026 ski season
May to October 2026
Whakapapa saw 5cm of snow across the 2026 season, down 37% on last winter. That puts it 31th snowiest of the last 32 winters.
Not enough local snow measurements to score this resort yet.
The 31th snowiest of the last 32 winters.
August was the mid-winter peak, with 60% of the season's snow.
Corrected for height: our long-range snow record uses weather-model ground about 800 m below the lifts, adjusted to the lifts' mid height with a simple snowpack model, so treat depths here as an estimate.
Modelled base-altitude snowfall from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus), EM Snow archive. The grid sits near resort base, not the summit, so treat totals as a valley-level estimate.