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Wharekirauponga Track
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Aug–May · highs 13–21 °C (55–70 °F)
- J21°16°121
- F21°16°140
- M20°15°161
- A18°13°183
- M15°11°163
- J13°9°205
- J13°8°219
- A13°8°199
- S14°10°159
- O16°11°142
- N17°12°130
- D19°14°148
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
The Wharekirauponga Track in Parakiwai Valley and the Royal Standard Goldmine area follows along an old horse-drawn tram track.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 4.4 km · 2.7 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 3 hr 30 min
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/ea2215899ec247599f201a8a5f8
- Mountain range
- Coromandel Range (GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 9.1 km S of Whangamata (Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato Region) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Coromandel Forest Park
- Best months
- Aug–May
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Waikato
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -37.2791, 175.8397
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easy · 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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