New Zealand · computed, not copied
When the sky does things
Sunrise, sunset, twilight, moonrise and moon phase for 192 New Zealand places — every day of 2026 and 2027. Plus the meteor showers you can actually see from the southern hemisphere, which is a shorter list than most guides admit.
Computed from standard astronomical algorithms · Auckland, as an example — every place has its own page · Reviewed Oct 2026 · Method
Flat horizon, sea level
These times are computed for a level, unobstructed horizon at sea level, with an average atmosphere. Hills, mountains and buildings all bring sunset forward and push sunrise back — in steep country by half an hour or more. Refraction varies with temperature and pressure, which is worth another minute either way. Do not plan anything where being wrong is dangerous around these times. Give yourself real margin before dark.
Start here
Your place
192 towns, cities and coastal spots, each with two years of daily sun and moon times.
Find a place →Meteor showers
Sorted by how good they actually are from New Zealand — including the famous one you cannot see at all.
See the list →Moon phases 2026
Every new, full and quarter moon, in New Zealand local time rather than UTC.
Moon calendar →Aurora australis
What it really takes to see the southern lights from here, and how to pick the dark nights.
Aurora notes →Why another sun-times site
Because most of them are northern-hemisphere sites with a New Zealand city pasted in. That produces pages telling Aucklanders to watch the Perseids — a shower whose radiant never rises from anywhere in this country — and moon-phase charts a day out because they are published in UTC.
Every number here is computed from first principles for the coordinates given, checked against the US Naval Observatory almanac on every build, and quoted with its real precision. Where something cannot be known from a static page — live aurora activity, cloud — SkyWatch says so and links to the source instead of guessing.