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New Lynn

New Lynn is a residential suburb in West Auckland, New Zealand, located 10 kilometres to the southwest of the Auckland city centre.

New Lynn
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The place

New Lynn is a residential suburb in West Auckland, New Zealand, located 10 kilometres to the southwest of the Auckland city centre. The suburb is located along the Whau River, one of the narrowest points of the North Island, and was the location of Te Tōanga Waka, a traditional waka portage between the Waitematā and Manukau harbours.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to New Lynn

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 15 km
  • Wellington → New Lynn
    487 km · quickest by air, 4h 18m · NZ$170–260
  • Christchurch → New Lynn
    757 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · NZ$210–320
  • Queenstown → New Lynn
    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 New Lynn

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe Auckland Transport (AT) website provides information on public transport, and allows you to select bus, train or ferry to plan an itinerary.

From Wikivoyage: Auckland/West 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,421 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,424 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,195 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,334 km

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

Around it

Next door to New Lynn

New Lynn is 10 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.