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Suburb of Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia

Avoca Beach

Avoca Beach is a coastal suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, about 95 kilometres (59 mi) north of Sydney.

Avoca Beach
Avoca Beach · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Avoca Beach is a coastal suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, about 95 kilometres (59 mi) north of Sydney. Avoca Beach is primarily a residential suburb, but also a popular tourist destination. It is known for its surfing and state (regional) surf competitions. It is located within the Central Coast Council local government area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Avoca Beach

2 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
    Wamberal Lagoon

    Wamberal Lagoon, an intermittently closed intermediate saline coastal lagoon, is located on the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamberal Lagoon is located between the beachside settlements of Forresters Beach and Wamberal, and adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, about 87 kilometres north of Sydney.

    3.8 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Avoca Lake

    The Avoca Lake, formerly known as Avoca Lagoon and as Bulbararing Lagoon, is an intermittently closed intermediate saline coastal lagoon that is located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Avoca Lake is located between the beachside settlements of North Avoca and Avoca Beach, and adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, about 85 kilometres north of Sydney.

    700 m · lake in Australia · 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.

Go there

Getting to Avoca Beach

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 59 km · Newcastle (NTL), 83 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Avoca Beach
    56 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · A$12–16
  • Williamtown → Avoca Beach
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · A$14–18
  • Gold Coast → Avoca Beach
    637 km · quickest by air, 7h 20m · A$330–470
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Avoca Beach

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 Avoca Beach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Palm Beach & Ettalong take the ferry to Wagstaffe.
  • Get aroundSome of the trails are suitable for off road bicycles, but not all.

From Wikivoyage: Bouddi National Park, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    932 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,152 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,322 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,886 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,251 km

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

Around it

Next door to Avoca Beach

Avoca Beach is 7 km from Central Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Terrigalsuburb of Central Coast, New South Wales2 km
  • Kincumberlocality in New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Copacabanasuburb of Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia2.8 km
  • Picketts Valleylocality in New South Wales, Australia2.5 km
  • Wamberalsuburb of Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • North Avocasuburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia900 m