Orakei (Māori: Ōrākei) is a suburb of Auckland city, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on a peninsula five kilometres to the east of the city centre, on the shore of the Waitemata Harbour, which lies to the north, and Hobson Bay and Orakei Basin, two arms of the Waitemata, which lie to the west and south. To the east is the suburb of Mission Bay. The mouth of the Waitemata is to the immediate north of Orakei, lying between Bastion Point, in Orakei, and North Head, in Devonport on the North Shore.