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Crater Rim Walkway
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Sep–May · highs 11–20 °C (52–68 °F)
- J20°12°47
- F19°12°50
- M17°10°54
- A15°8°57
- M12°6°74
- J9°3°78
- J8°2°92
- A9°3°91
- S11°4°51
- O14°6°61
- N16°8°56
- D18°11°56
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
- Mapped length
- 21 km · 13 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 1.3 km NW of Lyttelton (Christchurch City, Canterbury) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Sep–May
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Canterbury
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- CRW
- From / to
- Ahuriri Bush → Godley Heads
- Route centre
- -43.6271, 172.6850
- Route start
- -43.5936, 172.7081
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 6227864
- Official info
- tramper.nz/208/crater-rim-walkway/
How it’s scored
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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