Museum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa · photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0

Self-guided walking tour of Wellington

22 sights · New Zealand · capital

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Wellington, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

Plan your walk through Wellington

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

3-hour walk past the highlights of Wellington

7 stops · 5.7 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

  1. Photo: Soupisgoodfood at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5
    🚶 1 min walkTe Ngākau Civic Square
  2. Photo: Lanma726 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 5 min walkSt Mary of the Angels
  3. Photo: No machine-readable author provided, Public domain
    🚶 16 min walkWellington Botanic Garden
  4. Photo: Taken by myself(=en:User:Silenceisfoo),…, Public domain
    🚶 19 min walkSacred Heart Cathedral
  5. Photo: Tom Ackroyd, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 3 min walkNew Zealand Parliament Buildings
  6. Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0
    🚶 25 min walkMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  7. Photo: Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0
    🚶 7 min walkWellington Town Hall
Walk this route (with map)

More well-known sights in Wellington

  1. Zealandia
  2. Mount Victoria
  3. Old St Paul's
  4. City Gallery Wellington
  5. St James Theatre
  6. Premier House
  7. National War Memorial
  8. The Bucket Fountain
  9. Carter Fountain
  10. St John's Church, Wellington
  11. Wrights Hill Fortress
  12. Fort Buckley
  13. St Joseph's Church, Mt Victoria
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