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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Jun–Aug · highs 27–27 °C (81–81 °F)
- J28°21°329
- F28°21°311
- M28°21°314
- A28°21°270
- M27°21°189
- J27°20°150
- J27°20°147
- A27°20°151
- S27°20°218
- O28°20°264
- N28°21°282
- D28°21°315
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
- 86 km · 54 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Owen Stanley Range (Eastern Highlands › New Guinea Highlands; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 5.5 km S of Kokoda (Sohe, Oro Province) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Jun–Aug
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Region
- Central
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- National route
- Operator (OSM)
- Kokoda Track Authority
- Route centre
- -9.1226, 147.6178
- Route start
- -8.9267, 147.7441
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 7578789
- Wikidata
- Q1424748
- Official info
- kokodatrackauthority.org/
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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