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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
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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
Te Araroa alternative route is a local hiking route in Wellington, New Zealand, about 10 km (6 mi) in length. It lies about 1.1 km west of Pukerua Bay. By long-term climate averages it can be hiked year-round.
Short summary written from the trail facts on this page.
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 10 km · 6 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 1.1 km W of Pukerua Bay (Porirua City, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Ref
- TAalt
- From / to
- Paekakariki → Pukerua Bay
- Route centre
- -41.0133, 174.9193
- Route start
- -41.0348, 174.8872
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 9364936
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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