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St Heliers

St Heliers is a seaside suburb of Auckland with a population of 11,760 as of June 2025.

St Heliers
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The place

St Heliers is a seaside suburb of Auckland with a population of 11,760 as of June 2025.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around St Heliers

10 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
    Bean Rock Lighthouse

    Bean Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated at the end of a reef in the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the only remaining example in New Zealand of a wooden cottage-style lighthouse, and it is one of only a few remaining worldwide.

    3.7 km · lighthouse in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Colin Maiden Park

    Colin Maiden Park is a New Zealand sports complex in the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes, about 10 kilometres south-east of the Auckland CBD. It is named in honour of Sir Colin Maiden, vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland from 1971 to 1994. There are three grass pitch cricket grounds and other sporting facilities in the park.

    3.8 km · sports ground and park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Barfoot & Thompson Stadium

    Barfoot & Thompson Stadium, is a New Zealand venue for sports and entertainment events in Kohimarama, Auckland, New Zealand. The name sponsorship by Barfoot & Thompson, a leading real estate company, began in 2018.

    3 km · Stadium in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Heliers Memorial Fountain

    St Heliers Memorial Fountain is a drinking fountain and war memorial located in St Heliers. It honours local St Heliers scoutmaster Guyon Brookfield who died in World War I in 1916.

    800 m · memorial drinking fountain in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Churchill Park

    Churchill Park is a 40-hectare park in the Auckland suburb of Glendowie, in New Zealand. It was named after Winston Churchill upon the park's creation in 1945, and lies on the eastern side of the Auckland isthmus towards the Tāmaki River.

    900 m · park in Glendowie, suburb of Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Madills Farm Reserve

    Madills Farm Reserve, also known as Madills Farm, is a reserve and sports ground in the suburb of Kohimarama in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the home ground of Eastern Suburbs and the Kohimarama Yacht club.

    2.1 km · Football stadium in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tahuna Torea Nature Reserve

    Tahuna Torea is a nature reserve in Auckland, New Zealand, in the suburb of Glendowie. The reserve is a coastal wetland and sandspit containing freshwater ponds, mangroves, and walking tracks through bush and overland.

    2.7 km · park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Heliers Library

    St Heliers Library is a local branch of Auckland Libraries, serving the suburb of Saint Heliers. The library was formally opened as the Tamaki Library in 1931, in the former offices of the Tamaki West Road Board.

    800 m · library in Saint Heliers, Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dingle Dell

    Dingle Dell Reserve is a nature reserve in the St Heliers suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Established in 1928, it consists of 6.48 hectares of native bush with scenic trails, a small grass field, and native kauri and kohekohe trees.

    1.3 km · park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Chapel of St John the Evangelist, Auckland

    The Chapel of St John the Evangelist, formally, the Collegiate Chapel of St John the Evangelist, is an heritage-listed Anglican chapel that forms part of St John's College in the suburb of Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand. It is the oldest surviving church building in Auckland.

    3.5 km · historic chapel 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 St Heliers

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 19 km
Stations
Glen Innes railway station, 3.4 km
  • Wellington → St Heliers
    493 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · NZ$180–270
  • Christchurch → St Heliers
    767 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · NZ$220–340
  • Queenstown → St Heliers
    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 St Heliers

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTake the 10-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland.
  • Go nextRangitoto Island – volcanic island and nature reserve, accessible by direct ferry from Devonport Takapuna – if travelling by land, you will have to go there to leave Devonport

From Wikivoyage: Devonport (New Zealand), 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

    2,433 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,442 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,178 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,351 km

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

Around it

Next door to St Heliers

St Heliers is 9 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.