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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Aug–May · highs 13–22 °C (55–72 °F)
- J22°14°112
- F22°15°130
- M20°13°134
- A18°11°149
- M16°10°167
- J14°8°202
- J13°7°216
- A13°7°200
- S15°8°172
- O16°9°136
- N18°11°131
- D20°13°128
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
- 24 km · 15 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 12 km S of Kaeo (Far North District, Northland) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Puketī Forest (Pt Northland Conservation Park)
- Best months
- Aug–May
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Northland
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Route centre
- -35.2374, 173.7395
- Route start
- -35.2115, 173.7933
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 7264199
- Official info
- doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/no
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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