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Mangere

Māngere is a major suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand, located on mainly flat land on the northeastern shore of the Manukau Harbour, to the northwest of Manukau City Centre and 15 kilometres south of the Auckland city centre.

Mangere
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The place

Māngere is a major suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand, located on mainly flat land on the northeastern shore of the Manukau Harbour, to the northwest of Manukau City Centre and 15 kilometres south of the Auckland city centre. It is the location of Auckland Airport, which lies close to the harbour's edge to the south of the suburb.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mangere

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
    Centre Park

    Centre Park is a stadium located in Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand. The stadium hosted the 2011 OFC U-20 Championship.

    600 m · park in Māngere, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.7 km · regional park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.8 km · Marae in Māngere Bridge, Auckland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St James Anglican Church

    St James Anglican Church is a category II heritage listed Anglican church in Māngere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand. Built in the 1850s it is the only remaining stone Selwyn church in Auckland.

    3.1 km · church building in Mangere Bridge, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Butterfly Creek

    Butterfly Creek is a wildlife facility located adjacent to Auckland Airport, Auckland, New Zealand. Opening in November 2003, the facility primarily exhibits exotic species, including a butterfly garden and two saltwater crocodiles, the only members of their species kept in New Zealand.

    3.7 km · zoo in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mānawa Bay

    Mānawa Bay is an outlet shopping centre located in Auckland, New Zealand. It has more than 100 stores, mainly outlets and restaurant space, situated under a 35,000m2 building.

    3.3 km · outlet shopping centre 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.

Go there

Getting to Mangere

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 5 km
Stations
Middlemore railway station, 3.4 km · Ōtāhuhu railway station, 3.7 km · Mangere railway station, 3.3 km
  • Wellington → Mangere
    480 km · quickest by air, 3h 52m · NZ$150–230
  • Christchurch → Mangere
    753 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · NZ$190–300
  • Queenstown → Mangere
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mangere

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 Mangere. 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

    1,033 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

    2,434 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,190 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,343 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mangere

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