Kokoda
in Sohe of Northern Province, Papua New Guinea
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Girua Airport (39 mi) - Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (53 mi)
- Kerema Airport (148 mi)
- Aseki Airport (149 mi)
- Finschhafen Airport (156 mi)
- Lae Nadzab Airport (174 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- -8.878 and 147.736 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- S -8° 52' 40" and E 147° 44' 11"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Kina - PGK
- Spoken languages:
- English, Hiri Motu
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 08:15 PM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Pacific/Port_Moresby
- UTC/GMT offset: 10 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:38 am and 6:11 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 14.867 and -24.750 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Faja - References
- This place on Wikipedia
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,8 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to Papua New Guinea.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Papua New Guinea. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Explore Kokoda
Kokoda in Sohe (Northern Province) with it's 6,199 inhabitants is a city in Papua New Guinea about 54 mi (or 88 km) north-east of Port Moresby, the country's capital.
Local time in Kokoda is now 08:15 PM (Thursday). The local timezone is named Pacific / Port Moresby with an UTC offset of 10 hours. We know of 6 airports in the vicinity of Kokoda, of which one is a larger airport. The closest airport in Papua New Guinea is Girua Airport in a distance of 39 mi (or 63 km), East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Popondetta, Port Moresby, Kwikila, Kerema and Lae. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 33°C / 92 °F
| Morning Temperature | 23°C / 74 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 30°C / 86 °F |
| Night Temperature | 26°C / 78 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 1% |
| Air Humidity | 51% |
| Air Pressure | 1008 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from South-West |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
34°C (93 °F)
24°C (75 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, broken clouds.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
31°C (87 °F)
24°C (74 °F)
Moderate rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
31°C (88 °F)
24°C (75 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
Kokoda Track 2014
Kokoda Track - 4th July 2014. Rob Mitchell & Syd Aquino walked the 96kms of the Kokoda Track. Gruelling but amazing experience never to be forgotten. Incredible to have experienced at least...
My Kokoda Experience
Songs sung by the children of Naduri and our trekking crew respectively. (All recorded with a GoPro Hero 3 White Edition)
Kokoda Track - Eora Creek Bridge Crossing
Up for adventure, check out this bridge made from vines and logs over the mighty Eora Creek on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea. Built in early 2013, trekkers cross this bridge as part...
Cover-More Testimonial: Kokoda Trail Travel Disaster
Cover-More Travel Insurance...travel insurance you can trust. Listen to Debra's travel story and how Cover-More was able to help. While traveling to papa new guinea Debra was hiking on the...
Mike and Matt trek the Kokoda trail
Mike Kokoda.
The monkey with the big brown eyes.m2ts
One of the first songs any trekker on the Kokoda Trail will learn. It is made even more fun when madman Hobert adds his 'Meows', 'Woofs' and funny facial expressions.
MAKING BILUMS (string bags)
A demonstration of how bilums are woven.
SING SING AT HAGATAWA
On our walk up to Misima we (see the other video) stopped at Hagatawa "1" where a "Sing Sing" was under way for visiting tourists. They performed a couple of...
MAKING FIRE & MATS
Demonstration of traditional fire and mat making at Foke village near Kokoda.
MANUWA SONGS
While wandering around Manuwa village (near Kokoda) we were given this fantastic, spontaneous performance by one of the church singers.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Kokoda Track campaign
The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 between Japanese and Allied—primarily Australian—forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua.
Kokoda Airport
Kokoda Airport is an airport in Kokoda, Papua New Guinea. The airfield was a focal point of the intense battle along the famous Kokoda trail, during the second World War. It was taken and retaken several times by both Japanese and Australian troops during those hard months of the battle, at a great human cost.
Airlines PNG Flight 4684
Airlines PNG Flight 4684 was a passenger flight which crashed near Kokoda Airport, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea on 11 August 2009, killing all eleven passengers and two crew. The Airlines PNG aircraft, a de Havilland Twin Otter, was travelling in bad weather, when it impacted terrain on the eastern slope of the Kokoda Gap about 11 km south-east of Kokoda. Wreckage was discovered at 8.40am on 12 August 2009 at an altitude of 5500 feet (1676 metres) in the Owen Stanley Range.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Kokoda.
This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Kodoka, Kokoda, KKD
