Whanganui, also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatu-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island, at the mouth of the Whanganui River, the country's longest navigable waterway. It is the ancestral territory of Te Ati Haunui-a-Paparangi and related Whanganui Maori groups, was founded as the New Zealand Company's second settlement after Wellington in 1840, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2021; its urban population was about 42,800 in June 2025, the 19th most populous urban area in New Zealand.
Facts
Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Longitude175.051944 degrees east 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Whanganui (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 42,200 (2020)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -39.9325, longitude 175.051944
P2046 (area)
area 2.3727 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 42200 (2020)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Whanganui - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2179670
-39.93333 175.05 P PPL NZ F3 037 49200 18 Pacific/Auckland
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 18 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -39.75, 175.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -39.75, 175.25
-39.75 175.25 Cfb
Wikidata: Whanganui
Wikidata Q1015672, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Whanganui (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Australia and New Zealand (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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