Volcano

Taranaki and Raoul Island: 2 Live Cameras

Two New Zealand volcano cameras that stand apart from the Tongariro cluster: Mount Taranaki, rising alone from a coastal plain, and Raoul Island, an uninhabited volcano about 1,000km north of the mainland.

What you can see

Mount Taranaki is a cone that rises by itself from the plain on the western side of the North Island. With no high ground around it, the mountain stands straight up out of flat land. Its symmetry is such that a film set in Japan once used it in place of Mount Fuji.

That said, the summit is clear of cloud for very little of the day. Damp sea air runs directly into it, and the mountain makes its own cloud. A day when the whole cone shows is a win on its own.

Raoul Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Kermadecs, about 1,000km north of the mainland. With nobody stationed there, the camera is an eye kept on it from a distance. What it delivers is less a view than a statement of what the island is doing.

Cameras you can watch now: 2

All 2 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.

• 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

  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 →

When to watch

New Zealand runs 3–4 hours ahead of Japan (an hour either way for daylight saving). Morning in Japan is already past midday there, so the early hours in Japan land on their late morning.

The seasons are reversed. Japan's summer is Taranaki's winter, with snow on the summit; Japan's winter is their summer, and the snow retreats.

Both are still images refreshed every ten minutes, and both go dark at night.

If it isn't showing

Both come from GeoNet, New Zealand's earthquake and volcano monitoring programme. Its other cameras are on Tongariro National Park and Whakaari / White Island.

For the Japanese equivalent of a single mountain standing out of a plain, see Mount Fuji.

Where to find Taranaki and Raoul Island

• New Zealand11

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.