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The Snow Ranch - reachable from Cardrona Valley between Wanaka and Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand - is New Zealand's only New Zealand business cross-country skiing area. Please find the estimated opening hours of the New Zealand skiing areas in the section When do the New Zealand skiing areas open? further below in this articl.

Please also note that the opening hours of the skiing areas are dependent on the meteorological and winter sports situation, so that the data are not written in masonry. Please find below a shortlist of New Zealand skiing areas on the North Island of New Zealand. For more information about a particular resort, click on the name of one of the resorts or click on the map in parentheses to see where the resort is on a map in Google Maps.

Please find below a shortlist of New Zealand skiing areas on the South Island of New Zealand. For more information about a particular resort, click on the name of one of the resorts or click on the map in parentheses to see where the resort is on a map in Google Maps.

What time do New Zealand's skiing areas open? From the beginning of June to the end of October you can go skiing or snowboarding, according to the situation and skiing area in New Zealand. Skifields on the South Island open mostly in front of the skifields on the North Island. The South Island skiing areas are generally open in early June and closed in early October, while the North Island pistes are open from the end of June to mid-October.

South Island resorts also tended to be less overcrowded than New Zealand's North Island resorts, although this does not hold true for vacation seasons. If you are considering when is the best season to go to New Zealand for a day's downhill or cross-country skis, you should also consider the July vacation, as the resorts are usually very lively.

The South Island of New Zealand offers lively resort areas such as Coronet Peak and Cardrona in the southern lake district of Queenstown and Wanaka. Mt Hutt at Methven and about 1.5hrs from Christchurch in Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand is usually the first skiing area in New Zealand to open its pistes, but not always.

All New Zealand skiing resorts can be found in New Zealand's skiing resort listings and you can click on any skiing area to access its website. In the following chart you can see the estimated opening hours of (commercial) New Zealand skiing areas. The opening hours usually vary depending on the weather which is hard to forecast and which only Madonna can handle.

While you can ask the skiing areas for precise opening hours via their websites, please keep in mind that these are dependent on the weathers. In the following chart you can see the opening hours of the New Zealand skiing areas that have already given the opening hours of the skiing areas. Staged on 29 June 2018.

Please check the New Zealand skifields listings for the latest opening times. It also tracks the open and enclosed condition of skiing areas and provides meteorological forecast for 23 skiing areas. In the following chart you can see the deadlines for New Zealand 2015, 2016 and 2017 skiing areas.

Please be aware that the closure of the skiing areas depends on the prevailing conditions and can change from year to year, but usually takes place either in August, September or October. Be careful when using the information below to plan your skiing holidays and when you can do so.

Based on the data below, I would be planning a skiing vacation in 2018 by the beginning of September at the latest.