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Mellons Bay

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mellons Bay

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
    Lloyd Elsmore Park

    Urban park in East Auckland, New Zealand

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ōhuiarangi / Pigeon Mountain

    Hill in New Zealand

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Waipaparoa / Howick Beach

    Beach in New Zealand

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, Howick

    Church building in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stockade Hill

    Park and historic place in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand

    1 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Howick Historical Village

    Museum in Auckland, New Zealand

    3.6 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 Mellons Bay

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 19 km
  • Wellington → Mellons Bay
    490 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · NZ$180–270
    GuideToday
  • Christchurch → Mellons Bay
    765 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · NZ$220–340
    GuideToday
  • Queenstown → Mellons Bay
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
    GuideToday
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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 Mellons Bay

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 Mellons Bay. 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

    1,047 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,440 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,445 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,175 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,356 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mellons Bay

Mellons Bay is 13 km from Manukau City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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