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Favona

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

Favona
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Mount 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
  2. 02
    Centre 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
  3. 03
    Rarotonga / 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
  4. 04
    Our 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
  5. 05
    Onehunga 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
  6. 06
    Ambury 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
  7. 07
    Te 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
  8. 08
    Dress 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
  9. 09
    Onehunga 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
  10. 10
    Carnegie 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

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 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 → Favona
    484 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · NZ$160–240
  • Christchurch → Favona
    757 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · NZ$200–310
  • Queenstown → Favona
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Auckland/South Auckland, 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
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,034 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,431 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,433 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,189 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,344 km

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

Around it

Next door to Favona

Favona is 8 km from Manukau City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.