New Zealand: days of stay calculator

Start here: choose your passport

Your citizenship Your passport is needed

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Now mark your entry

Counting window

Calculate as of which date?

Trips to New Zealand One shared journal: the same is visible on the all-countries dashboard

No trips to this country yet. Tap “I am here now” if you are already inside, or enter the dates manually.

Other countries in the journal Counted continuously, even when you are not on their page

Calendar reminders

Nothing to remind you about yet: mark an entry and the exit, visa-run and vehicle export dates will show up here.

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Where to go next

No land neighbours — you can only leave by ferry or by air.

New Zealand: who needs a visa

Visa-free: 1 of 198 world passports. Popular passports below — tap one for the full rules of that pair.

Data from World passports

Countries with a non-trivial counting rule

These destinations use a rolling window or a calendar year — you cannot count that in your head. For other countries pick a destination in the calculator above.

Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Visa calculator: how many days you may stay

Rules for a specific passport

The calculator counts days against your dates. The entry mode, the counting window and the vehicle import rules depend on the passport — they live on the passport pages.

Choose a passport United States → New Zealand

How the days are counted

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Rolling window: on any given date the days from the previous 365 days are counted. Days free up as they drop out of the window.

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The day of entry and the day of exit both count as full days.

Reference data, not legal advice. Rules change without notice — check with the consulate or at the border.

Frequently asked questions

How are days of stay counted in New Zealand?

A rolling window of 365 days applies: on any given date the days spent during the previous 365 days are counted. You are allowed 180 days inside that window, and they come back gradually as they drop out of it.

Does leaving the country reset the day counter?

No. With a rolling window, leaving does not reset anything: each day drops out on its own 365 days after you spent it. A short exit and return does not give you a fresh full allowance.

How do I count several trips in a row?

Add every entry and exit — the calculator sums the days of each trip, shows how many are used and how many are left on the date you pick, and names the day when the full allowance is available again.

What happens if I overstay?

Usually a fine and an entry ban, scaled to the country and the number of overstayed days. This calculation is an estimate: the border authority always makes the final decision on entry and length of stay.

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