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New Zealand Live Cameras — 11 official webcams

Eleven volcano cameras published by GeoNet, mostly on the North Island — Ruapehu, Tongariro, Taranaki and others. Being in the southern hemisphere, the seasons run opposite to Japan's.

11 cameras in New Zealand

All 11 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.

• Sample August 2026

  Mount Tongariro

  North Island · Volcano

  An active volcano with a line of craters along its top, at the heart of the World Heritage Tongariro National Park. The ground around it is bare volcanic rubble.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Mount Ngauruhoe

  North Island · Volcano

  A near-perfect stratovolcano cone. Striking under snow, and familiar to many people from film.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Mount Taranaki

  North Island · Volcano

  A cone standing alone above a coastal plain. The hours when the summit is not in cloud are not many.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Mount Ruapehu, north

  North Island · Volcano

  The highest peak on the North Island, holding a crater lake at its top. There are ski fields here, and the camera tracks the lake level and the steam.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Whakatane coast

  North Island · Volcano · Sea

  A monitoring camera looking from the Bay of Plenty shore out towards Whakaari (White Island).

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Raoul Island

  Kermadec Islands · Volcano

  An uninhabited volcanic island about 1,000 km north of the mainland. The camera is there so it can be watched from a distance.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Ngauruhoe and Tongariro

  North Island · Volcano

  A frame wide enough to hold both the cone of Ngauruhoe and the crater line of Tongariro, which shows how close together they are.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Mount Ruapehu, east

  North Island · Volcano

  The same crater-lake summit seen from the eastern flank. Snow lies differently here than it does on the northern view.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Mount Ruapehu, south

  North Island · Volcano

  The mountain from the south. Several angles exist because the wind decides which way the steam drifts.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Te Kaha coast

  North Island · Volcano · Sea

  A camera on the eastern Bay of Plenty coast watching out towards Whakaari (White Island), from further east than the Whakatane view.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

• Sample August 2026

  Te Maari craters, Mount Tongariro

  North Island · Volcano

  A close view of the craters that erupted in 2012, kept there to show whether the amount of steam has changed.

  GEONET Still, every 10 min Open the official page →

When to watch

The seasons are inverted. August, high summer in Japan, is winter in New Zealand and the mountains are under snow. Open them in the Japanese winter and it is summer down there. This is the only place on the site where you can watch the year run backwards.

New Zealand is three hours ahead of Japan, four during daylight saving. So 9 a.m. in Japan is the middle of their day, and a Japanese evening is their night. For local daylight, open these in the Japanese morning.

Ruapehu is covered from three directions and Tongariro from several, crater included. It is one of the few chances here to compare one mountain from different angles.

Agencies publishing the cameras on this page

• GeoNet New Zealand (CC BY 3.0 NZ) — Official site

The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.