Favona
Favona is a semi industrial and residential suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and is part of the Māngere area.

Favona is a semi industrial and residential suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and is part of the Māngere area. The suburb is in the Manukau ward, one of the thirteen administrative divisions of Auckland city, and is under governance of the Auckland Council.
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Worth seeing in and around Favona
10 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.
- 01Mount Smart Stadium
Mount Smart Stadium, branded as Go Media Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand. It is the main home ground of the New Zealand Warriors of the National Rugby League and Auckland FC of the A-League Men, and occasionally hosts rugby union and international rugby league matches.
4 km · football stadium in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Centre Park
Centre Park is a stadium located in Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand. The stadium hosted the 2011 OFC U-20 Championship.
1.4 km · park in Māngere, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 03Rarotonga / Mount Smart
Mount Smart is one of the volcanoes and Tūpuna Maunga in the Auckland volcanic field. A century of quarrying removed almost all the 87 metre scoria cone along with extensive terracing excavated by Māori.
4 km · mountain in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 04Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church
Our Lady of the Assumption is a heritage-listed Catholic church located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the suburb of Onehunga on the corner of Church Street and Galway Street.
3.5 km · church building in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 05Onehunga Primary School (Former)
Onehunga Primary School is a historic former school building located in Onehunga, registered as a category 1 building. Constructed in 1901 as a district school before becoming a district high school, it later served as a primary school until the school moved to a new site in 1982.
3.9 km · historic building in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 06Ambury Regional Park
Ambury Regional Park is a regional park situated on the coast of Manukau Harbour, in Auckland in New Zealand's North Island. It is situated in the suburb of Māngere Bridge and in the local board area of Māngere-Ōtāhuhu, to the west of Māngere Mountain.
3.1 km · regional park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 07Te Puea Memorial Marae
Te Puea Memorial Marae is a marae located in Māngere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in 1965, it was the first urban marae in Auckland, built for all Māori instead of a specific iwi, but in particular as a community centre for local urban Māori communities around Onehunga and Māngere, and for the Waikato Tainui iwi.
1.4 km · Marae in Māngere Bridge, Auckland · Wikipedia - 08Dress Smart
Dress Smart is a franchise of shopping centres in New Zealand that specialises in outlet stores.
3.7 km · shopping mall in Onehunga, Auckland · Wikipedia - 09Onehunga Harbour Road Bridge
The Onehunga Harbour Road Bridge is a walking and cycling bridge over Onehunga Harbour Road, a heavily trafficked road at the southwestern edge of Onehunga, New Zealand. The bridge provides easy and safe access from Onehunga to both the Waikaraka Cycleway running west–east, and Old Mangere Bridge to the south, which in turn links over the Mangere Inlet mouth of the Manukau Harbour.
2.7 km · bridge in Onehunga, Auckland · Wikipedia - 10Carnegie Free Library (Former)
The Onehunga Library is a public library located in Onehunga, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. First established as a public library in March 1855 and housed in the Anglican school house near St Peter's Church, the library grew in scope and was moved to Queen Street in 1870.
3.3 km · historic building in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
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Getting to Favona
- Airports
- Auckland (AKL), 7 km
- Stations
- Middlemore railway station, 3.6 km · Ōtāhuhu railway station, 3 km · Mangere railway station, 3.1 km · Westfield railway station, 3.2 km · Onehunga railway station, 3.2 km
- Wellington → Favona484 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · NZ$160–240
- Christchurch → Favona757 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · NZ$200–310
- Queenstown → FavonaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Favona
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 Favona. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFullers run a ferry approximately once every two hours from Central Auckland to Half Moon Bay.
- Go nextFerries leave from Half Moon Bay for Hauraki Gulf islands and central Auckland.
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Next door to Favona
Favona is 8 km from Manukau City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Māngeresuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.5 km
- Onehungasuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.7 km
- Middlemoresuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.6 km
- Te Papapasuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.7 km
- Māngere Eastsuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.7 km
- Māngere Bridgesuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1.7 km