Point Howard
Point Howard is a suburb on the eastern side of Wellington Harbour, in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Point Howard is a suburb on the eastern side of Wellington Harbour, in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Point Howard
5 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.
- 01Hutt Recreation Ground
The Hutt Recreation Ground is a football, cricket, athletics and rugby union ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The grounds are owned by the Hutt City Council and managed for them by Downer.
3.9 km · Sports ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 02Petone Settlers Museum
Petone Settlers Museum is a local history museum located in the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial, a historic building in Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The building was originally constructed to mark the Wellington province's centennial commemorations; the museum opened in the building in 1977.
3.3 km · local history museum in Lower Hutt, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 03Matiu / Somes Island Lighthouse
The Matiu / Somes Island lighthouse is a harbour navigation light located in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. It is a sector light, operating from the southern end of Matiu / Somes Island to mark a safe approach through the harbour navigation channel.
3.7 km · lighthouse in New Zealand, built 1900 · Wikipedia - 04Petone Recreation Ground
Petone Recreation Ground is a cricket ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1951 when Hutt Valley played Wanganui in the 1950/51 Hawke Cup.
3.7 km · cricket ground in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand · Wikipedia - 05Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation was a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for making New Zealand business more innovative.
2.2 km · New Zealand research institute · Wikipedia
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Getting to Point Howard
- Airports
- Wellington (WLG), 12 km
- Stations
- Hutt Park railway station, 1.9 km · Hutt Park railway station, Petone, 2.2 km
- Christchurch → Point Howard315 km · quickest by air, 4h 12m · NZ$150–230
- Auckland → Point Howard490 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · NZ$190–290
- Queenstown → Point HowardTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Point Howard
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 Point Howard. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are regular ferries between Wellington and Picton in the South Island operated by Interislander and Bluebridge, connecting with buses and the train to Christchurch.
- Get inHitchhiking from central Wellington is difficult as most traffic stays within the metropolitan area, and it is illegal to hitchhike on the motorway until the Hutt Valley (about 15 km or 9 mi northeast of Wellington) or Ōtaki (about 65 km or 40 mi north).
- Get inIf you are intending to hitchhike, you are best to catch a train to Waikanae or Upper Hutt and walk to the main highways to catch a lift from there (the best spot for Upper Hutt hitchhikers is at the Caltex petrol station about a 3 km walk north from the railway station along Fergusson Drive).
- Get aroundWellington has an extensive and well-patronised public transport network, with buses, trains and ferries serving the city and beyond extending into the Greater Wellington region.
- Get aroundThe Kelburn cable car is a Wellington icon.
From Wikivoyage: Wellington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Point Howard
Point Howard is 12 km from Wellington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lower Huttcity in the Wellington Region of New Zealand3.9 km
- Petonesuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3.8 km
- Wainuiomatatown in New Zealand3.8 km
- Seaviewsuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand1.1 km
- Avasuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3.5 km
- Moerasuburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand3.9 km