Hawke's Bay · New Zealand

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Napier and Hastings are twin searches. Havelock North, Central Hawke's Bay, and Wairoa are not the same query with the city name swapped.

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Hawke's Bay is more than one query

Art deco tourism, the fruit bowl, cellar doors under Te Mata, and a Waipukurau farm merchant need different proof. This hub is the region. Each town page is the offer.

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Towns and cities in Hawke's Bay

Each page is written for that place. This hub is how they stay linked.

Napier

Napier is the art deco port city of Hawke’s Bay: Marine Parade, a hill, and a visitor economy sitting on top of an ordinary regional city.

Napier

Hastings

Hastings is the plains city of Hawke’s Bay: orchards, packing, and a commercial centre that is not the art deco waterfront.

Hastings

Havelock North

Havelock North is the village under Te Mata, with cellar doors, a main street, and a different feel from Hastings a few minutes away.

Havelock North

Waipukurau

Waipukurau is the main town of Central Hawke’s Bay, a farming service centre on the Tukituki, south of the Heretaunga plains.

Waipukurau

Waipawa

Waipawa is the smaller of the two Central Hawke’s Bay towns, beside Waipukurau, with its own main street and the same farming district around it.

Waipawa

Takapau

Takapau is the small southern town of Central Hawke’s Bay, a rural service stop before the road runs on toward Dannevirke and the Manawatū.

Takapau

Wairoa

Wairoa is the river town between Napier and Gisborne, a rural service centre for a large, sparsely populated district on the east coast.

Wairoa

Clive

Clive is the small town on the river between Napier and Hastings, orchards and a main road, closer to both cities than either city name suggests.

Clive

Māhia

Māhia is the peninsula settlement between Wairoa and the coast, a beach and a rocket range that made a remote community into a name people across the country recognise.

Māhia

Haumoana

Haumoana is the coastal settlement between Clive and Te Awanga, on the shingle coast south of Napier toward Cape Kidnappers.

Haumoana

Te Awanga

Te Awanga is the coastal settlement between Haumoana and Cape Kidnappers, a beach community on the way to the gannet colony.

Te Awanga

Waimārama

Waimārama is the surf beach over the hills from Havelock North, a coastal settlement on the Pacific side of Hawke’s Bay, south of the Cape Kidnappers coast.

Waimārama

Bridge Pā

Bridge Pā is the wine and farming district west of Hastings, on the plains before the Gimblett Gravels and the road toward Flaxmere.

Bridge Pā

Nūhaka

Nūhaka is the town on SH2 between Wairoa and the turnoff to the Māhia Peninsula, a rural stop on the coast north of the bay.

Nūhaka

Ōtāne

Ōtāne is the small town on SH2 between Waipawa and Hastings, a farming service stop on the way out of central Hawke’s Bay.

Ōtāne

Porangahau

Porangahau is the coastal settlement southeast of Waipukurau, a beach town at the end of the road from central Hawke’s Bay.

Porangahau

Pakowhai

Pakowhai is the rural settlement on the Heretaunga Plains between Napier and Hastings, orchards and houses on the roads that join the two cities.

Pakowhai

Tikokino

Tikokino is the inland Central Hawke’s Bay village west of Waipawa, a farming settlement in the hills off the main highway.

Tikokino

Awatoto

Awatoto is the industrial and coastal locality south of Napier, between the city and Clive on the edge of the Heretaunga Plains.

Awatoto

Puketapu

Puketapu is the rural settlement inland from Taradale, a Hawke’s Bay village in the hills west of Napier on the way toward the Tutaekuri River.

Puketapu

Whakatu

Whakatu is the industrial settlement between Hastings and Clive, freezing works and workshops on the Heretaunga Plains.

Whakatu

Ongaonga

Ongaonga is the farming village on the Ruataniwha plains, between Waipawa and Tikokino in central Hawke’s Bay.

Ongaonga

Norsewood

Norsewood is the farming town south of Dannevirke, a Scandinavian settlement on State Highway 2 toward Woodville and the Manawatu Gorge.

Norsewood

Hawke's Bay suburbs

Customers type the suburb as well as the city. Each of these pages is written for that name.

Taradale

Taradale is Napier’s inland commercial suburb, a town centre of its own on the way to the hills, with Mission Estate and Greenmeadows beside it.

Taradale

Ahuriri

Ahuriri is Napier’s inner-harbour village, bars and businesses on the water, north of the art deco grid and west of Westshore.

Ahuriri

Westshore

Westshore is the beach suburb at Napier’s northern end, between Ahuriri and the coast road toward Bay View.

Westshore

Bay View

Bay View is the settlement on the coast north of Napier, between Westshore and the longer drive to Wairoa, with lifestyle blocks and a beach.

Bay View

Onekawa

Onekawa is the Napier suburb of workshops and housing between the CBD and Taradale, the industrial end of the city rather than the Art Deco seafront.

Onekawa

Marewa

Marewa is the Napier residential suburb on the way to Taradale, houses and local shops between the CBD and the inland centre.

Marewa

Tamatea

Tamatea is the Napier suburb north of Taradale, planned housing toward Bay View, a name of its own on the inland side of the city.

Tamatea

Flaxmere

Flaxmere is the western Hastings suburb, a large residential area with its own centre, separate from the Hastings CBD and from Havelock North under the hills.

Flaxmere

Mahora

Mahora is the northern Hastings suburb, local shops and houses on the city side of the plains, not Havelock North and not the CBD grid.

Mahora

Akina

Akina is the south-east Hastings suburb on the way toward Havelock North, residential streets between the city and the hills.

Akina

Greenmeadows

Greenmeadows is the Napier suburb between the city and Taradale, with Anderson Park and a local centre on the road out to the hills.

Greenmeadows

Bluff Hill

Bluff Hill is the headland suburb above Napier port and the city centre, a lookout and residential streets between the CBD and Ahuriri.

Bluff Hill

Raureka

Raureka is the western Hastings suburb toward Flaxmere, residential streets and local shops on the Omahu Road side of the city.

Raureka

Pirimai

Pirimai is the south Napier suburb between Tamatea and Maraenui, housing and a park on the flat between Taradale Road and the coast suburbs.

Pirimai

Maraenui

Maraenui is the southeast Napier suburb beside Pirimai, local shops and housing on the way from the city toward the Te Awanga coast.

Maraenui

Poraiti

Poraiti is the hill suburb west of Taradale, lifestyle sections and views over Napier on the inland side of the city before the country opens toward Puketapu.

Poraiti

Camberley

Camberley is the west Hastings suburb between the city centre and Flaxmere, local shops and housing before the larger western suburb.

Camberley

Parkvale

Parkvale is the east Hastings suburb on the way to Havelock North, housing and local shops between the city and the hills village.

Parkvale

Napier South

Napier South is the suburb immediately south of the Napier centre, between Bluff Hill and Marewa, shops and houses on the flat rather than the hill.

Napier South

Mayfair

Mayfair is the east Hastings suburb between the city centre and Parkvale, housing on the way toward Havelock North.

Mayfair

Stortford Lodge

Stortford Lodge is the south Hastings suburb around the saleyards, a commercial and rural-service edge on the way out of the city.

Stortford Lodge

Frimley

Frimley is the Hastings suburb around Frimley Park, housing on the west side of the city beside Parkvale and Raureka.

Frimley

Hospital Hill

Hospital Hill is the Napier hill suburb above the hospital, houses on the slope between Bluff Hill and the flat of Napier South.

Hospital Hill

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Frequently asked questions

Should Napier and Hastings be one page?

No. Locals treat them as a pair and still search them separately. Link the pages. Do not merge the names into one title.

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