New Zealand by region
17,658 venues across 17 regions and 1,482 named towns and suburbs.
New Zealand's venues are not spread evenly. Auckland alone holds 33% of everything we map, and the top three regions — Auckland, Canterbury and Waikato — account for 55% between them. The three smallest — Marlborough (211), Gisborne (101) and Chatham Islands (9) — hold 2% between them.
The ratio of eating places to accommodation is the number that most distinguishes one region from another. Nationally it runs 75% eat to 25% stay. West Coast is the most accommodation-heavy region of any size at 64%, while Auckland is the least at 9% — the difference between a region that hosts visitors and one that mainly feeds its own residents.
Each region page below breaks that region down by town, category and cuisine, and states how far its mix departs from the national picture. Towns with at least 20 venues get a page of their own; smaller places are listed on the region page rather than given a page with nothing on it. All of it derives from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database Licence, with public registers used for verification — never from a commercial directory.
Every region, ranked
| 1. Auckland | 5,763 venues · 5,243 eat, 520 stay · 267 towns · 33% of New Zealand · 9% accommodation |
|---|---|
| 2. Canterbury | 2,267 venues · 1,703 eat, 564 stay · 213 towns · 13% of New Zealand · 25% accommodation |
| 3. Waikato | 1,726 venues · 1,252 eat, 474 stay · 160 towns · 10% of New Zealand · 27% accommodation |
| 4. Wellington | 1,600 venues · 1,362 eat, 238 stay · 111 towns · 9% of New Zealand · 15% accommodation |
| 5. Otago | 1,130 venues · 715 eat, 415 stay · 117 towns · 6% of New Zealand · 37% accommodation |
| 6. Bay of Plenty | 1,043 venues · 700 eat, 343 stay · 114 towns · 6% of New Zealand · 33% accommodation |
| 7. Northland | 717 venues · 403 eat, 314 stay · 109 towns · 4% of New Zealand · 44% accommodation |
| 8. Manawatū-Whanganui | 649 venues · 419 eat, 230 stay · 86 towns · 4% of New Zealand · 35% accommodation |
| 9. Hawke's Bay | 478 venues · 341 eat, 137 stay · 55 towns · 3% of New Zealand · 29% accommodation |
| 10. Southland | 314 venues · 167 eat, 147 stay · 41 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 47% accommodation |
| 11. Taranaki | 300 venues · 202 eat, 98 stay · 41 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 33% accommodation |
| 12. Tasman | 298 venues · 158 eat, 140 stay · 51 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 47% accommodation |
| 13. West Coast | 274 venues · 100 eat, 174 stay · 51 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 64% accommodation |
| 14. Nelson | 232 venues · 176 eat, 56 stay · 7 towns · 1% of New Zealand · 24% accommodation |
| 15. Marlborough | 211 venues · 101 eat, 110 stay · 40 towns · 1% of New Zealand · 52% accommodation |
| 16. Gisborne | 101 venues · 63 eat, 38 stay · 16 towns · 1% of New Zealand · 38% accommodation |
| 17. Chatham Islands | 9 venues · 2 eat, 7 stay · 3 towns · 0% of New Zealand · 78% accommodation |
Two caveats worth stating before you read anything into these numbers. The first is that this counts venues, not seats or beds or turnover — a region of small cafés will out-count a region of large hotels. The second is that coverage depends on what has been mapped: OpenStreetMap is community-maintained, so a well-mapped town looks busier than an identically-sized town nobody has surveyed. Where a figure looks wrong to someone who knows the place, the source data is almost always the reason, and it is fixable — OpenStreetMap takes corrections from anyone.