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Mount Te Kinga Track/Ara O Te Kinga
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
No month meets all three rules below at this spot.
- J14°7°398
- F15°7°297
- M13°5°326
- A10°3°352
- M7°1°364
- J4°-2°394
- J4°-3°305
- A5°-2°344
- S7°-1°424
- O9°1°474
- N11°3°394
- D13°5°467
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
- Difficulty
- Very hard (9/10) (Advanced, Expert · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 5.6 km · 3.5 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Hohonu Range (Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 18 km W of Gloriavale Christian Church (Grey District, West Coast) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Mt Te Kinga Scenic Reserve
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- West Coast
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- -42.6348, 171.4957
- Route start
- -42.6549, 171.4915
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 9192370
- Official info
- doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/we
How it’s scored
Very hard (9/10). Official rating: Advanced, Expert · 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.
Nearest trails
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Mount French Track
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Crooked Route
8 mi · 13 km · Conservation Area - Otira-Kopara Forest
Harman Pass Route
13 mi · 20 km · Conservation Area - Wanganui / Otira Catchments
Lake Kaurapataka Route
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