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Howick

Howick is a town located in the UMngeni Local Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

Howick
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Howick is a town located in the UMngeni Local Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The town is 1050 m above sea level, and about 88 kilometres from the port city of Durban. It experiences warm summers and cool, dry winters. A snappy chill descends upon Howick when snow falls on the nearby Drakensberg. The town is located on the N3 freeway, connecting it with the rest of South Africa.

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Getting to Howick

Airports
King Shaka (DUR), 87 km · Moshoeshoe I (MSU), 259 km
  • Durban → Howick
    88 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · R95–125
  • Johannesburg → Howick
    423 km · quickest by road, 6h 48m · R420–560
  • Bloemfontein → Howick
    391 km · quickest by road, 7h 49m · R480–640
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No local-transport research exists yet for Howick

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

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    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,561 km
  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

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  3. 03
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    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

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  4. 04
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    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

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  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

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Howick is 23 km from Pietermaritzburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.