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Glentui
Country New Zealand
Region Canterbury
Territorial authority Waimakariri District
Ward Oxford-Ohoka Ward
Electorates Kaikoura
Te Tai Tonga (Maori electorate)
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.

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.

Demographics

Glentui is part of the wider Okuku statistical area.

Climate

The average temperature in summer is 16.2 °C, and in winter is 5.9 °C.

Climate data for Glentui, New Zealand
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
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