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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Sep–May · highs 11–17 °C (52–63 °F)
- J17°12°124
- F17°12°92
- M15°11°115
- A14°9°109
- M11°7°125
- J9°5°111
- J9°5°95
- A10°5°86
- S12°7°101
- O13°8°112
- N14°9°100
- D16°11°110
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
An easy, well-paved track to Lookout Point following the Motupohue (Bluff) coastline. This track is part of Te Araroa Trail.
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 (2/10) (Easiest · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 2 hr return
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/e144068de2a944b3a2bdb641823
- Nearest town
- 2.8 km S of Bluff (Invercargill City, Southland) · GeoNames
- Connects to
- Ocean Beach Track (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Sep–May
- Country
- New Zealand
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -46.6253, 168.3365
How it’s scored
Easy (2/10). Official rating: Easiest · 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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