Australia & New Zealand at a glance
Tap through to the live Land-tour Atlas for every place’s card: how ships or tours use it, who goes and when.
Tour start cityOvernight stopDay highlightClassic route
Seasons reversed · Red Centre best April–May · summer costs most
- Janfew or none
- Febfew or none
- Marfew or none
- Aprpeak
- Maypeak
- Junfew or none
- Julfew or none
- Augfew or none
- Sepfew or none
- Octfew or none
- Novfew or none
- Decfew or none
Tourism Australia calls December to February the hottest and most expensive time and singles out April and May for the Red Centre; June to August is peak season around Cairns and the reef. Milford Sound gets rain about 200 days a year, per Intrepid.
Every Australia & New Zealand place we map
10 land-tour stops, grouped as the itineraries use them. Places with a full Seabound guide link straight to it.
Day highlights 1
Overnight stops 4
Tour start cities 5
The classic routes
The routes the tour companies sell most often here, drawn on the map above.
Melbourne → Cairns → Sydney → Queenstown → Rotorua → Auckland · 15 days
Run by Trafalgar
Melbourne → Cairns → Sydney → Auckland → Rotorua → Queenstown → Milford Sound → Lake Tekapo → Christchurch · 18 days
Run by Trafalgar
Melbourne → Uluru → Port Douglas → Sydney · 10 days
Run by Tauck
Adelaide → Alice Springs → Darwin · 4 days, 3 nights
Run by Globus
Christchurch → Franz Josef → Queenstown → Milford Sound → Christchurch · 9 days
Run by Contiki
Tour companies that go here
The number is how many places on this map each one uses.
Australia & New Zealand map questions
How many land-tour stops are on the Australia & New Zealand map?
10: 1 day highlights, 4 overnight stops, 5 tour start cities. Each one opens a card on our interactive map.
When is the Australia & New Zealand season?
Seasons reversed · Red Centre best April–May · summer costs most. Tourism Australia calls December to February the hottest and most expensive time and singles out April and May for the Red Centre; June to August is peak season around Cairns and the reef. Milford Sound gets rain about 200 days a year, per Intrepid.
Who runs tours in Australia & New Zealand?
Trafalgar, Globus, Tauck, Intrepid, G Adventures, Contiki use places on this map.
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