Eating and staying in Wellington
1,600 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 111 towns and suburbs in Wellington.
Wellington accounts for 9% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 4th-largest of the 17 regions by venue count. Those 1,600 venues sit across 111 named towns and suburbs, of which 15 carry at least 20 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Wellington (635), Lower Hutt (103) and Petone (68) hold 50% of everything between them. The remaining 96 places average 4.4 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 85% eating to 15% accommodation, against a national 75/25. Accommodation is thinner on the ground here than nationally, which is what a region with more residents than tourists looks like in the data.
698 venues in Wellington carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on malaysian (18), bagel (4) and vietnamese (28).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 542 venues here publish opening hours (34% against 23% nationally), 511 list a website, and 237 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 408 in Wellington · 26% of the region · 9% of New Zealand's 4,558 |
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| Cafés | 392 in Wellington · 25% of the region · 11% of New Zealand's 3,648 |
| Takeaways | 383 in Wellington · 24% of the region · 10% of New Zealand's 3,742 |
| Bars | 108 in Wellington · 7% of the region · 17% of New Zealand's 649 |
| Hotels | 73 in Wellington · 5% of the region · 9% of New Zealand's 775 |
| Pubs | 72 in Wellington · 5% of the region · 12% of New Zealand's 623 |
| Motels | 48 in Wellington · 3% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 1,152 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 47 in Wellington · 3% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 1,337 |
| Serviced apartments | 34 in Wellington · 2% of the region · 12% of New Zealand's 282 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 24 in Wellington · 2% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 478 |
| Hostels | 18 in Wellington · 1% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 414 |
Sideline covers the same region for sport — gyms and clubs in Wellington →
Towns and suburbs in Wellington
A further 96 smaller places in Wellington carry fewer than 20 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.