Hokitika
Population 2,920 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in New Zealand
- January: 14 h 59 of daylight
- February: 13 h 47 of daylight
- March: 12 h 27 of daylight
- April: 10 h 58 of daylight
- May: 9 h 44 of daylight
- June: 9 h 03 of daylight
- July: 9 h 19 of daylight
- August: 10 h 21 of daylight
- September: 11 h 45 of daylight
- October: 13 h 11 of daylight
- November: 14 h 32 of daylight
- December: 15 h 18 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- National Kiwi Centre Zoo · 260 m
- Hokitika war memorial Memorial · 400 m
- Hokitika Museum Museum · 500 m
- Hokitika Town Clock Memorial · 290 m
- Westland District Second World War memorial Memorial · 350 m
- Hokitika beachfront memorial Memorial · 380 m
- Wilderness Gallery Gallery · 410 m
- Hokitika school war memorial Memorial · 550 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
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Wildfoods Festival
March
The Hokitika Wildfoods Festival is an annual event held in early March in Hokitika, New Zealand. Its main attraction is an array of unusual foods, including huhu grubs, lamb's testicles, and horse semen.
1 event here has no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Hokitika); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Eating nearby
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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.