how long from AK to Welly

[try_hard]

can you please help. im flying up to the AK and am driving back home. i am trying to make bookings but dont really know times and distances on your roads up north. how long is it going to take me to drive from the Auckland air port to the ferry in wellington. (on average). i dont know the roads at all but a mate that is coming along dose sort of so mite get lost as well.

[Adydas]

Depending if you stop for food etc or go straight down non stop your looking at approx 8 hours.

1 hour to hamilton, 3 hours to taupo 5 hours to dessert road 6-7 to get to levin / bulls and an hour to get into wellington its self. ( Approx ).

Somone might be able to help fine tune the above but thats as good as i remember and would go by.

[Mr Revhead]

depending on the time of day and traffic, it can take a coupla hours to get from bulls-welly
and if your stupid and try doing it when the whole of welly is trying to do the same.... take a tent.

[thegreatestben]

driven from welly to ak a couple times now,
doing it at night we got it down to about 6 - 6.5 hours,
too bad it took us about 2 hours to navigate auckland and find our destination

[Silvertop]

My average is about 7.5 hrs. No speeding and one or two brief stops. Bypassing Hamilton helps also (via 27). Distance is approx 640kms.

[GT4-SUM]

going down sh27 is only 1 km less than going down sh1, around 8 hrs to get down but would say 9hrs for u since u dont know the rds

[Silvertop]

going down sh27 is only 1 km less than going down sh1

Wan't the distance that made it a quicker trip for me, I've split off from a small group (they went through Hamilton, we went via 27) and had to wait around at Tirau for a bit until they showed up.

[Phothog]

http://www.travelplanner.co.nz/driving/smlcalc.html

neat little calulator... from just about every major city..

Chris.