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Papeete

Papeete
Papeete · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
What is there

Worth seeing in and around Papeete

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Stade Pater Te Hono Nui

    Soccer stadium in Papeete, French Polynesia

    1.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Papeete Cathedral

    Cathedral located in Polynésie française, in France

    600 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Papeete Tahiti Temple

    Mormon temple located in Tahiti, in France

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stade Louis Ganivet

    Multi-use stadium in Faaa, Tahiti, French Polynesia

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Robert Wan Pearl Museum

    Museum in France

    600 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Papeete

Airports
Fa'a'ā (PPT), 5 km
  • Avarua → Papeete
    1146 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · $280–430
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Papeete

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Papeete. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIf you have the time, take the ferry over to Moorea.

From Wikivoyage: Papeete, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,088 km
  2. 02
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    4,962 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    5,952 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    6,523 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    7,386 km

If you know how people move in Papeete – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.