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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Sep–Apr · highs 10–19 °C (50–66 °F)
- J19°9°106
- F19°10°82
- M17°8°95
- A13°5°103
- M10°3°104
- J7°0°126
- J6°-1°108
- A8°0°112
- S10°2°123
- O12°4°145
- N15°6°119
- D17°8°136
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) (hard · OpenStreetMap difficulty tag (ODbL))
- Length (signed)
- 116 km · 72 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 117 km · 73 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Saint Arnaud Range (Main Divide of The Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Part of
- Te Araroa - 07 Tasman (regional route)
- Connects to
- Lake Rotoiti (Kerr Bay) walks (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Sep–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Tasman
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Ref
- TA07b
- Operator (OSM)
- Te Araroa
- From / to
- Saint Arnaud SH63 → Boyle Village (SH7)
- Route centre
- -42.1618, 172.6178
- Route start
- -41.8013, 172.8477
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 19442174
- Wikidata
- Q4242105
How it’s scored
Hard (7/10). Official rating: hard · OpenStreetMap difficulty tag (ODbL).
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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