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Puponga Hilltop Walk
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Nov–May · highs 14–18 °C (57–64 °F)
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- F18°16°125
- M17°15°154
- A16°14°170
- M14°13°184
- J13°11°234
- J12°10°211
- A12°10°211
- S13°11°208
- O13°12°226
- N14°13°182
- D16°14°188
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
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 7.6 km · 4.7 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearby park
- Puponga Farm Park (0.09 km from the boundary)
- Nearest town
- 40 km N of Takaka (Tasman District) · GeoNames
- Connects to
- Pūponga Hilltop Walk (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Nov–May
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Tasman
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- Route centre
- -40.5105, 172.7101
- Route start
- -40.5034, 172.6799
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 2871580
How it’s scored
Hard (7/10). Official rating: Advanced · 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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