🇳🇿 New Zealand

Rainbow Ski Area

13 / 100 Powder Score
Thin ☁️

Rainbow Ski Area is a ski area in New Zealand. Right now the settled base is 10 cm. Over the last three winters it averaged 93 cm of snowfall a season, which ranks it 2294th (tied) of the 3,108 ski areas we measure worldwide. 2 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Base depth
10cm
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0.2cm
Next 72h
0.2cm
Temperature
-1.5
Max wind
11.9km/h

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0.5/25
Snow quality 4/20
Wind 8/10
Base 0.5/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 11 Aug 0 -5.9 / 2.4 9.3
❄️ 12 Aug 0.2 -3.6 / 1.7 11.9
🌦️ 13 Aug 0 -1.2 / 2.5 10.3
☁️ 14 Aug 0 -4.4 / 6.8 8.6
🌦️ 15 Aug 0 -4.8 / 0.8 15.8
☁️ 16 Aug 0 -6.1 / 0.8 20.7
☁️ 17 Aug 0 -5.7 / -0.6 14.2

🗺️ Location

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Hanmer Springs Ski Area — 64km Mount Lyford Alpine Resort — 68km
Coordinates: -41.8719, 172.8564

🏨 Where to Stay

We have no facility list for the 12 km around here yet — search the booking sites below.

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

Updated: 11 Aug 2026, 10:17

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