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Hornby

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hornby

6 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
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand

    Military and aviation museum in Christchurch, New Zealand

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Riccarton Park Racecourse

    Thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Christchurch, New Zealand

    2.6 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Our Lady of Victories Church

    Church in Christchurch

    2.6 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Peter's Church, Riccarton

    New Zealand church

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St John of God Halswell

    New Zealand church building

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Christchurch Football Centre

    Football stadium in Russley, Christchurch, New Zealand

    3.9 km · 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 Hornby

Airports
Christchurch (CHC), 7 km
Stations
Wigram Aerodrome, 1.6 km
  • Wellington → Hornby
    312 km · quickest by air, 3h 43m · NZ$130–200
    GuideToday
  • Queenstown → Hornby
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
    GuideToday
  • Auckland → Hornby
    769 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · NZ$210–320
    GuideToday
  • From anywhere
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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 Hornby

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThis scenic train journey can be done as a day trip.
  • Get inAt Picton the Coastal Pacific connects with the Cook Strait ferries from Wellington in the North Island.
  • Get inThe train departs Christchurch at 7AM and arrives in Picton at 1:15PM, connecting with the 2PM ferry to Wellington.
  • Get inThe 9AM ferry from Wellington connects with the train departing Picton at 2:15PM and arriving in Christchurch at 8:30PM.
  • Get aroundServices cover the whole city and areas of interest for a visitor that lie outside the central city, such as Sumner and New Brighton beaches, Lyttelton, and the Gondola.

From Wikivoyage: Christchurch, 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

    388 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,032 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,693 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,117 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,769 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hornby

Hornby is 8 km from Christchurch, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Prebbletonlocality in Selwyn District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand3.5 km
  • Wigramsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand1.1 km
  • Sockburnsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2.1 km
  • Aidanfieldsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.3 km
  • Upper Riccartonsuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand3.9 km
  • Hei Heisuburb of Christchurch, New Zealand2 km
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