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Good · 2026 season average
Projected to open July 4, 2027 · average of 102 verified open days
Best months to book: August, July, September · last season + 30-yr record
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Projected to open Jul 4 — closed October 12
Weather data is still collected for informational purposes.
Last Snowfall
Oct 31
Past 24 Hours
4cm
Resort reportedPast 48 Hours
4cm
Past 10 Days
4cm
7-Day Forecast
0cm
Snow Depth
--
Powder Days
10
2026 season
Bluebird Days
2
2026 season
Good
2026 season average
Tūroa is projected to open July 4, 2027. Last season it averaged 40.1 across 102 verified open days.
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Ranked on 25% last season's SnowSure score (2026) · 75% 30-year snowfall and base-depth record. Last season's strongest fortnight was 25 Jul – 7 Aug. One season describes what happened, not what to expect. The live score returns when the lifts turn.
Updated Oct 30 at 10:07 PM
Days 8–14 and every model are in SnowSure Pro.Unlock with Pro
No measurement at mid height (1,961m) reached us: past snow shown is the model's estimate at the summit.
31 Sat 0° / -8° | 1 Sun 2° / -6° | 2 Mon 3° / -3° | 3 Tue 5° / -1° | 4 Wed 6° / -1° | 5 Thu 7° / 1° | 6 Fri 8° / 2° | Days 8–14 and every model are in SnowSure Pro.Unlock with Pro | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | 7 Sat | 8 Sun | 9 Mon | 10 Tue | 11 Wed | 12 Thu | 13 Fri | |
| Conditions | ☁️ | 🌤️ | ☀️ | ☀️ | 🌤️ | ☀️ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | ⛅ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | ⛅ | 🌧️ | ☁️ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | 🌧️ | |||||||
| cloudy | mostly clear | clear | clear | mostly clear | clear | light drizzle | light drizzle | light drizzle | light drizzle | light drizzle | light drizzle | some clouds | light drizzle | light drizzle | some clouds | light drizzle | cloudy | light drizzle | drizzle | light drizzle | ||||||||
| Mid-mountain1,961 mModeled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Temp°C | -3° | 2° | -3° | 0° | 6° | -2° | 1° | 5° | 1° | 3° | 7° | 3° | 4° | 7° | 3° | 5° | 9° | 5° | 5° | 9° | 5° | |||||||
| Feels like°C | -8° | -2° | -7° | -4° | 0° | -5° | -5° | -1° | -4° | -1° | 4° | -1° | 2° | 6° | 1° | 3° | 7° | 2° | 3° | 6° | 3° | |||||||
| Snowcm | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.1 | · | 0.1 | · | · | 0.3 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Precipmm | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 5.5 | |||||||
| Windkm/h | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 12 | |||||||
| Summit2,322 mModeled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Temp°C | -6° | 0° | -5° | -3° | 3° | -4° | -1° | 3° | -1° | 0° | 5° | 0° | 2° | 5° | 1° | 3° | 7° | 2° | 3° | 6° | 3° | |||||||
| Feels like°C | -11° | -4° | -10° | -6° | -2° | -8° | -7° | -4° | -6° | -3° | 1° | -3° | -1° | 3° | -1° | 1° | 4° | -1° | 0° | 3° | 0° | |||||||
| Snowcm | · | · | 0.1 | · | · | · | 0.2 | · | 0.3 | 0.2 | · | 0.4 | · | · | 0.1 | · | · | 0.1 | · | · | · | |||||||
| Precipmm | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 5.5 | |||||||
| Windkm/h | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 12 | |||||||
| Base1,600 mModeled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Temp°C | -1° | 4° | -1° | 2° | 8° | 0° | 3° | 7° | 3° | 5° | 9° | 5° | 7° | 9° | 6° | 8° | 12° | 7° | 8° | 11° | 8° | |||||||
| Feels like°C | -5° | 1° | -5° | -1° | 3° | -3° | -2° | 2° | -1° | 2° | 6° | 2° | 5° | 9° | 4° | 6° | 10° | 5° | 6° | 9° | 6° | |||||||
| Snowcm | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||
| Precipmm | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 5.5 | |||||||
| Windkm/h | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 12 | |||||||
| Humidity% | 85 | 59 | 81 | 72 | 69 | 81 | 90 | 79 | 97 | 92 | 73 | 95 | 81 | 70 | 95 | 84 | 67 | 94 | 94 | 89 | 97 | |||||||
| 0°C linem | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
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Freeze line is the height where rain turns to snow. Plain: straight from the models. Marked ○: estimated from temperature. Sun is hours of actual sunshine, not day length; blank means we have no reading.
Every model for Tūroa, side by side for 14 days
Where the models agree, where they split, and which one has been most accurate here.
Unlock with ProThe black line is not a simple average. For Tūroa (southern alps), we combine seven global weather models using weights learned from daily forecast verification — comparing each model's prediction to measured snowfall (SNOTEL, resort reports, ERA5).
Building verification history for this resort.
How we verify forecasts →New Zealand region
El Niño Outlook · Winter 2026
Tūroa is under review in SnowSure's El Niño dataset — we will not publish a rank against a discontinuous historical series.
This station is under review and carries no rank: its 30-year ERA5 baseline falls below the 80cm floor our methodology commits to, so percentage swings computed on it are unstable by construction. We expect it to benefit from El Niño; our method cannot size that reliably.
In 5 past El Niño winters at Tūroa, ERA5 season snowfall median was 42 cm (17 in), about 3% above this resort’s long-term median. This is a historical analog from reanalysis — not a prediction of this winter’s storm track.
Prevailing ONI
El Niño
JJA 2026 · ANOM +1.8°C
Analog season median
42cm
5 El Niño winters · 3% above median
All-season median
41cm
Across 30 ERA5 seasons (2026)
| Phase | Seasons | Median | p25–p75 | Recent analogs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Niñocurrent | 5 | 42cm | 26cm – 45cm | 2023, 2015, 2009, 2002, 1997 |
| La Niña | 4 | 18cm | 7cm – 51cm | 2022, 2010, 1999, 1998 |
| ENSO-neutral | 21 | 42cm | 23cm – 127cm | 2025, 2024, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 |
Season snowfall from Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis (~9 km). ENSO phase from NOAA CPC Oceanic Niño Index. Relative phase differences are more trustworthy than absolute cm totals. Source: NOAA CPC Oceanic Niño Index + Open-Meteo ERA5 via SnowSure season archive.
How accurate is this forecast?
We verify every forecast against what actually fell — see the model-by-model results.
