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Murrays Bay

Murrays Bay is a small suburb in the East Coast Bays region, located in the North Shore of Auckland.

Murrays Bay
Murrays Bay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Murrays Bay is a small suburb in the East Coast Bays region, located in the North Shore of Auckland. The suburb is roughly the same size as Rothesay Bay, the suburb to the immediate north. It is primarily a residential area but does have a community centre, restaurant and café. Murrays Bay is regularly serviced by buses which go to Takapuna and the Auckland city centre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Murrays Bay

4 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
    Albany Lakes Civic Park

    Albany Lakes Reserve is a public park located in Albany, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland. It is adjacent to the Westfield Albany shopping mall, in the centre of the commercial area.

    3.6 km · Public park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    City Impact Church New Zealand

    City Impact Church is a pentecostal church based in Auckland, New Zealand. It operates a network of satellite churches across New Zealand, and in Canada, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and Tonga.

    2.5 km · church building in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Westfield Albany

    Westfield Albany is a shopping centre in the Auckland suburb of Albany, New Zealand, opposite the Albany Lakes Civic Park. It is majority owned by Scentre Group with the remainder owned by the Singapore Government's GIC. Until 2014 it was wholly owned by Scentre Group, which was formerly part of Westfield Group.

    3.5 km · shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rosedale Park

    Rosedale Park, is a reserve and sports ground in the suburb of Rosedale in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the home ground of NRFL Northern Conference side Albany United, North Harbour Softball and North Harbour Hockey.

    3.9 km · park and softball field in Auckland · 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 Murrays Bay

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 32 km
  • Wellington → Murrays Bay
    507 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · NZ$180–280
  • Christchurch → Murrays Bay
    778 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · NZ$220–340
  • Queenstown → Murrays Bay
    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 Murrays 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 Murrays Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFerries run from the CBD to points around the Waitemata Harbour, east Auckland, islands of the Hauraki Gulf (such as Waiheke Island), and the Whangaparaoa Peninsula.

From Wikivoyage: Auckland Region, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,053 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,418 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,438 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,180 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,343 km

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

Around it

Next door to Murrays Bay

Murrays Bay is 13 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.