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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Feb · highs 18–18 °C (64–64 °F)
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- F18°12°193
- M17°11°212
- A14°9°244
- M12°7°283
- J10°5°318
- J9°4°327
- A10°4°319
- S11°5°314
- O12°7°345
- N14°8°251
- D16°10°267
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Very hard (9/10) (Advanced, Expert · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 107 km · 67 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Pouakai Range (Western North Island; GMBA)
- Park or forest
- Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki (formerly Egmont National Park)
- Best months
- Feb
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Taranaki
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- -39.3104, 174.0376
- Route start
- -39.2671, 173.9896
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17339564
- Wikidata
- Q124827398
- Official info
- doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/ta
How it’s scored
Very hard (9/10). Official rating: Advanced, Expert · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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