Dunedin to Wellington flight

Flights from Dunedin to Wellington start at €66.81 and take 4h 23m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Dunedin to Wellington starts at €66.81 and takes 4h 23m door to door, run by 2 operators over 634 km, with around 9 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 23mDoor to door
  • 1h 13mMoving
  • €66.81From
  • 156.0 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€59.73
  1. Mount Cook Airlines MC651207:3052m08:22Dunedin DUDChristchurch CHC
  2. Mount Cook Airlines MC994310:0053m10:53Christchurch CHCWellington WLG

Changes at Christchurch, with 98 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 33mCO2 156.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€69.76
  1. Mount Cook Airlines MC514206:521h 13m08:05Dunedin DUDWellington WLG

Door to door 4h 23mCO2 156.0 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFrom
Mount Cook Airlines€61.50
Air New Zealand€65.04

The flight gets you into Wellington. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Wellington

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Dunedin to Wellington

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €66.8190 days
  2. €47.3460 days
  3. €46.7545 days
  4. €49.1130 days
  5. €69.7621 days
  6. €86.8714 days
  7. €103.987 days
  8. €97.493 days
  9. €136.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €46.75.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 192 percent. The most expensive point is €136.43, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €76.84Sun
  2. €69.76Mon
  3. €66.81Tue
  4. €75.07Wed
  5. €86.87Thu
  6. €82.15Fri
  7. €86.87Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Dunedin

Air
  • DUD

Wellington

Air
  • WLG
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
89% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 11% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 634 km against 615 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Christchurch. The gap between arriving and leaving is 98 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dunedin at 06:30 and the last at 18:15, across 9 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Dunedin to Wellington

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington take?

The Flight from Dunedin to Wellington takes 4h 23m door to door, of which 1h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 634 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington cost?

The Flight from Dunedin to Wellington starts at €66.81 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €69.76. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington?

2 operators run the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington: Mount Cook Airlines, Air New Zealand. Between them they file around 9 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington use?

The Flight from Dunedin to Wellington leaves from Dunedin DUD and arrives at Wellington WLG. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington?

Fares for the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €46.75. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 192 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Dunedin to Wellington produce?

The Flight from Dunedin to Wellington produces about 156.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 634 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Dunedin to Wellington on September 12, 2026: 634 km of route against 615 km in a straight line, 9 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €66.81, and 4h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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