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HRT-e Te Aroha to Matamata (Hiking)
Next nearby hike: Tui Mine Track (from Te Aroha Summit to town) 2.2 mi · 3.5 kmExplore Kaimai Range →
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J22°15°84
- F23°16°89
- M21°14°97
- A19°12°114
- M16°10°112
- J14°8°137
- J13°7°147
- A14°7°135
- S15°9°114
- O17°10°106
- N18°12°95
- D20°14°113
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
Views of the Kaimai Mamaku Maunga and the lush Waikato farmland. This section is now complete.
OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 37 km · 23 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Kaimai Range (GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 1.8 km S of Te Aroha (Matamata-Piako District, Waikato Region) · GeoNames
- Part of
- HRT Hauraki Rail Trail (Hiking) (national route)
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Waikato
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- HRT-e
- Route centre
- -37.6785, 175.7718
- Route start
- -37.5442, 175.7133
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 12922584
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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