Westhaven, Wellington Map

About Westhaven, Wellington

Westhaven is a locality in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. It sits at an elevation of around 273 m above sea level. It lies approximately 13 km north of Wellington, the regional capital. Westhaven is located at 41.1683°S, 174.8002°E. It observes New Zealand Time (NZST/NZDT).

Westhaven unfolds across a series of gentle, rolling hills that slope towards the distant shimmer of Open Bay, approximately six kilometres away. It lies 5.7 km south-west of Porirua (from Porirua: bearing 227°T), and is situated 13.3 km north of Wellington. The landscape here is a tapestry of greens and browns, where well-tended farmland gives way to pockets of native bush, its dense foliage often catching the low-slung afternoon sun. The air carries a faint, clean scent, a subtle hint of the sea carried on the prevailing westerly breeze, which also rustles through the tall grasses bordering the country roads. Weather-beaten fences, their timber silvered by countless seasons, define the generous paddocks, and the occasional weathered woolshed stands as a quiet sentinel against the wide, often dramatic, sky that dominates the horizon.

The economic pulse of Westhaven has long been tied to the land, a steady rhythm of sheep and beef farming that shapes the contours of the hills and the lives of its inhabitants. While the open coastline of Open Bay draws the occasional weekend traveller and provides a distant, ever-present reminder of the wider world, the true heart of Westhaven beats inland, in the quiet diligence of its agricultural roots. The Colonial Knob Walkway, a popular local track, offers views that stretch across this pastoral expanse, a gentle invitation to appreciate the enduring character of this region. The stories here are not of grand pronouncements, but of seasons observed, of generations tending the soil, and of a community that has quietly woven its history into the very fabric of the rolling landscape.

About This Westhaven Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Westhaven, Wellington, New Zealand at coordinates -41.16827, 174.80019. 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 Westhaven.

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