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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
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- F17°15°70
- M16°14°92
- A15°12°93
- M13°10°122
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- J10°8°147
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- O13°10°123
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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
This track runs from Johnsonville south west to Makara Saddle, Karori. Allow up to 5 hours to traverse 12kms of Wellington’s ridge tops following the Outer Green Belt
OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 21 km · 13 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- At Johnsonville (Wellington City, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- SKL
- Operator (OSM)
- Wellington City Council
- Route centre
- -41.2455, 174.7613
- Route start
- -41.2229, 174.8050
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 9286961
- Official info
- wellington.govt.nz/recreation/enjoy-the-outdoors
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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