New Zealand address format & examples

Shockingly, you don’t need to know Māori to absolutely crush New Zealand’s address format. Put aside your fish and chips because we’ll show you a New Zealand address example and walk you through New Zealand’s mailing address format step by step. You can learn how to write a New Zealand address by looking at our examples here, or you can try our suite of address validation tools for addresses in New Zealand below. Just enter an address, and we'll format, standardize, and validate the address faster than you can say, "no worries."

Now, let's get into it with the basics. New Zealand’s address format should be written as follows:

1. Addressee line - The recipient's name and any appropriate titles go here.
2. House number and street name - The house number and street name are listed in this order, without commas between them.
3. Dependent locality - On a line by itself, include the dependent locality, if applicable.
4. Locality and postal code - The locality, followed immediately by the postal code goes on this line without any separating punctuation.
5. Country - "NZL", in all caps, goes on the final line.