Arch Hill, Auckland Map

About Arch Hill, Auckland

Arch Hill is a locality in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It sits at an elevation of around 23 m above sea level. It lies approximately 2 km south-west of Auckland, the regional capital. Arch Hill is located at 36.8624°S, 174.7442°E. It observes New Zealand Time (NZST/NZDT).

Arch Hill rises with a gentle incline, its landscape a nuanced blend of cultivated green and urban sprawl, a place where the distant tang of the sea from Saint Marys Bay occasionally drifts inland, mingling with the scent of damp earth and mown lawns. It lies 2.3 km south-west of Auckland (from Auckland: bearing 228°T), and is situated 7.0 km south of North Shore. Rolling hills, softened by the passage of time, form the immediate topography, their slopes often dotted with modest homes and the occasional cluster of mature trees, their branches reaching towards the often-azure Auckland sky. The land here feels settled, a comfortable undulation rather than a dramatic peak, yet it offers glimpses, between buildings and foliage, of the larger urban silhouette, dominated by the soaring presence of the Sky Tower, a constant, metallic sentinel on the horizon.

This locality, Arch Hill, carries a quiet history of suburban growth, its foundations laid by families seeking a respite from the city's denser core, drawn by the promise of more space and a calmer rhythm of life. The local economy, while not defined by a singular, dominant industry, reflects the broader metropolitan context, with many residents commuting to central business districts, while smaller pockets of commerce thrive within Arch Hill itself, offering services and a sense of neighbourhood continuity. Its distinctive character lies in this unpretentious blend of domesticity and proximity, a place where the broader hum of a major city is softened by the more intimate concerns of its streets and gardens, a locality that has quietly absorbed the ebb and flow of Auckland's development.

About This Arch Hill Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arch Hill, Auckland, New Zealand at coordinates -36.86241, 174.74422. Use the Map and Satellite buttons to switch views, the plus and minus buttons to zoom, and Fullscreen to fill the screen.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map with four things the embedded map cannot do. It searches OpenStreetMap for any New Zealand town, suburb or landmark by name. It offers LINZ topographic maps as a base layer — the official Topo250 and Topo50 sheets, switching scale automatically as you zoom, and the standard reference for tramping, hunting and back-country travel. It offers LINZ aerial imagery down to 5cm resolution in urban areas. And it can take a single GPS fix from your device and report your position as both an NZTM2000 grid reference and plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what New Zealand search and rescue services work from. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map itself cannot load.

My Location & Navigate starts the vector-tile navigator: live turn-by-turn driving directions from your current position to any destination, with spoken guidance, lane hints and automatic re-routing.

Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time New Zealand and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorial description provides background on Arch Hill.

Arch Hill sits within the Auckland Region. Location data is drawn from the GeoNames geographical database and verified by coordinates, ensuring the correct Arch Hill is identified even where the name is shared across multiple New Zealand localities.