Glentui | |
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Coordinates: 43°13′S172°14′E / 43.22°S 172.24°E Coordinates: 43°13′S172°14′E / 43.22°S 172.24°E | |
Country | New Zealand |
Region | Canterbury |
Territorial authority | Waimakariri District |
Ward | Oxford-Ohoka Ward |
Electorates | Kaikoura Te Tai Tonga (Maori electorate) [1] |
Time zone | UTC+12 (NZST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+13 (NZDT) |
Postcode | 7495 |
Area code(s) | 03 |
Glentui is a small rural community in the Waimakariri District, New Zealand. It is well known for Glentui Meadows, a facility frequently used by youth groups and schools for camping. [2]
Close to Gentui was Birch Hill Station, a sheep station that was taken up by Theophilus Samuel Mannering in the nineteenth century. George Edward Mannering, who would later become an mountaineer, was born here in 1862. [3]
Glentui is part of the wider Okuku statistical area. [4]
The average temperature in summer is 16.2 °C, and in winter is 5.9 °C. [5]
Climate data for Glentui, New Zealand | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.8 (62.2) | 16.3 (61.3) | 14.6 (58.3) | 11.6 (52.9) | 8.3 (46.9) | 5.8 (42.4) | 5.3 (41.5) | 6.5 (43.7) | 8.9 (48.0) | 11.2 (52.2) | 13.3 (55.9) | 15.5 (59.9) | 11.2 (52.2) |
Source: Norwegian Meteorological Institute [6] |
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