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Benowa

Benowa is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Benowa
Benowa · Justin Lee
The place

Benowa is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Benowa had a population of 9,889 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Benowa

3 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
    Carrara Stadium

    Carrara Stadium is a stadium located in the Gold Coast suburb of Carrara. It is primarily used for Australian rules football as the home ground of the Gold Coast Suns, which competes in the Australian Football League.

    2 km · stadium on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Aquinas College

    Aquinas College is an independent Catholic secondary school, located in the Gold Coast suburb of Southport in Queensland, Australia. Aquinas College has a current enrolment of 1,200 students from Year 7 to 12.

    3.6 km · Coeducational Catholic College, Gold Coast Queensland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gold Coast City Art Gallery

    The Gold Coast City Art Gallery was a regional Art museum located in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Opened in 1986, the Gallery was part of HOTA, Home of the Arts which is funded by the Gold Coast City Council.

    2.9 km · art museum in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland · 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 Benowa

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 21 km · Brisbane (BNE), 74 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 160 km
Stations
Nerang railway station, 4 km
  • Brisbane → Benowa
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · A$9–12
  • Maroochydore → Benowa
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · A$21–28
  • Toowoomba → Benowa
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · A$21–28
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Benowa

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Gold Coast, 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    312 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,747 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,786 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,258 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,032 km

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

Around it

Next door to Benowa

Benowa is 4 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.