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Benmore Peninsula Walk
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Sep–Apr · highs 11–20 °C (52–68 °F)
- J20°12°44
- F20°12°33
- M17°10°40
- A14°7°31
- M10°4°37
- J6°0°35
- J4°-1°32
- A7°1°29
- S11°3°31
- O13°5°39
- N16°8°38
- D18°10°54
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.
About this trail
This circuit track passes through an exotic forest and around a peninsula jutting out into Lake Benmore.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 2.7 km · 1.7 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 1 hr 40 min
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/75f6e3b7159040eb9ffde548a19
- Mountain range
- Hawkdun Range (Inland Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 30 km NW of Hakataramea (Waimate District, Canterbury) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Sep–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Canterbury
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -44.5564, 170.1985
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easy · 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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