🇳🇿 New Zealand

Tukino Skifield

31 / 100 Powder Score
Poor 🌦️ Official site

Tukino Skifield is a ski area in New Zealand. It sits at about 1,956 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.6 km². Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 102 cm of snowfall a season, 2163rd (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 2 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
1.3cm
Next 24h
2.7cm
Next 72h
7.8cm
Temperature
-4.2℃
Max wind
32.1km/h
Elevation
1,956m
Area
2.6km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 3.8/40
Forecast (24h) 5.9/25
Snow quality 16/20
Wind 3/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
❄️ 27 Sept 2.2 -5.8 / 2.4 32.2
❄️ 28 Sept 4.9 -7.6 / -3 19.1
🌨️ 29 Sept 0.7 -3.9 / 1.7 17.1
☁️ 30 Sept 0 -3.7 / 3.3 10.5
☁️ 1 Oct 0 -3 / 1.4 13.6
☁️ 2 Oct 0 -3.2 / 4.6 16
☁️ 3 Oct 0 -0.7 / 6.6 10.2

Runs and lifts

Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.4 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
0
Lifts
3

Lift types

  • Rope tow3

Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
102 cm
per season
Range over three winters
55 cm
67–122 cm. The best winter was 1.8x the worst.
World rank
2163
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
20
of 26 in New Zealand
Elevation rank
1
Highest to lowest, of 26 in New Zealand. The centre point sits at 1,956 m, 337 m above the national median.
Quality rank
20
of 25 in New Zealand
Temp when snowing
-3.5°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
51%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
5%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
22 km/h
Dryness 0.40
Frequency 0.13
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.92

The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.

The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Whakapapa Ski Area4.8 km102 cm2163
Tūroa Ski Area5.6 km102 cm2163

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in August. September brings as much as July, or more. In amount, September brings 34 cm, about the same as the median of 32 cm.

13cm
Jun
30cm
Jul
35cm
Aug
34cm
Sep
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

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

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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