Internet speed in New Zealand
Median speeds from Ookla's Speedtest Global Index, June 2026 — what a rental's line and your phone actually get, not what the listing says.
Home broadband219 Mbpsmedian download in Auckland0world median 130300+Fast — Several people on calls at once, large uploads, 4K97 Mbps upload · 6 ms latency
Mobile data183 Mbpsmedian download in Auckland0world median 109300+18 Mbps upload · 18 ms latency
By city
under 30 basic · fair · 100+ good · 150+ fast — the tick is the world median.
| Place | Home broadband | Mobile data | Work from it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aucklandmeasured in Auckland | 219 Mbps | 183 Mbps | Yes |
| New Zealand as a wholeOokla publishes no separate figure for Queenstown, Rotorua, Wellington, Fiordland & Milford Sound; the national median stands for them. | 215 Mbps | 146 Mbps | Yes |
A median is the middle of every test run in the place that quarter: half the lines are faster, half slower. Cities usually beat the national number; islands and hill towns usually do not. "Work from it" is this site's own line — 150 Mbps down, 50 up, under 30 ms — for a household on calls all day; one person needs far less.
The guides in New Zealand
QueenstownNew ZealandThe adventure capital, ringed by mountains and lake
AucklandNew ZealandA city built on fifty volcanoes, with an island ferry from the bottom of the street
RotoruaNew ZealandGeysers, boiling mud and a smell of sulphur, in the centre of Māori New Zealand
WellingtonNew ZealandA harbour capital wedged between hills and sea, with the best coffee and the worst wind in the country
Fiordland & Milford SoundNew ZealandSheer black walls dropping into deep water, in a place that rains two hundred days a year and is better for it