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WLG · NZWN Wellington Region, New Zealand Live · — aircraft now within 80 km

Live flights over Wellington International Airport (WLG)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 810 departures and 807 arrivals at Wellington International Airport, 231 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Auckland (AKL), Christchurch (CHC) and Nelson (NSN). The airline seen most often is Air New Zealand.

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Airport data

IATA code
WLG
ICAO code
NZWN
City
Wellington
Region
Wellington Region
Country
New Zealand
Elevation
12 m (41 ft)
Coordinates
-41.32684, 174.80686

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Wellington International Airport that the network receives appears on the FlyItalyADSB live map: airliners on approach and departure, business and general aviation, and — where MLAT reaches — aircraft without full ADS-B. Nothing is filtered out; how much of the area is covered depends on the community's receivers near Wellington.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day
231
departures + arrivals
Departures
810
total, 7 days
Arrivals
807
total, 7 days
Connections
20
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Sun 1 125 127 252
Mon 2 108 110 218
Tue 3 122 120 242
Wed 4 124 119 243
Thu 5 123 127 250
Fri 6 123 115 238
Sat 7 85 89 174

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Auckland AKL 242 flights
  2. Christchurch CHC 209 flights
  3. Nelson NSN 155 flights
  4. Blenheim BHE 94 flights
  5. Napier NPE 63 flights
  6. Hamilton HLZ 59 flights
  7. Tauranga TRG 49 flights
  8. New Plymouth NPL 37 flights
  9. Dunedin DUD 33 flights
  10. Sydney SYD Australia 30 flights
  11. Gisborne GIS 25 flights
  12. Palmerston North PMR 23 flights
  13. Rotorua ROT 20 flights
  14. Wanganui WAG 19 flights
  15. Melbourne MEL Australia 16 flights
  16. Queenstown ZQN 14 flights
4 more connections

Airlines

  1. Air New ZealandANZ 960
  2. Sounds AirSDA 172
  3. Jetstar AirwaysJST 114
  4. LFTLFT 54
  5. Bromma Air MaintenanceCFL 50
  6. QantasQFA 46
  7. Skycharter (Malton)SKL 30
  8. Air ChathamsCVA 14
  9. GBYGBY 13
  10. MDKMDK 10

Aircraft

  1. Airbus A320 A320 377
  2. DH8C 349
  3. ATR 72-600 AT76 285
  4. C208 176
  5. BE20 94
  6. PA38 56
  7. Boeing 737-800 B738 46
  8. Airbus A320neo A20N 43
  9. H500 40
  10. BK17 29

How we count: a flight is a departure here when the network first sees it low near the airport (on the ground, or climbing away from it), an arrival when it last sees it low on approach. Where receivers don't reach low altitude the numbers stay below the real traffic. Connections and airlines come only from airline flights.

Updated every night · the data as JSON (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This data in your app

Every aircraft within 80 km of Wellington International Airport, as JSON, with a free key that also allows commercial use:

curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/v2/lat/-41.32684/lon/174.80686/dist/80

Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Wellington right now?”

Get a free key → Quickstart

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over Wellington International Airport? +

Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Wellington: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of WLG, refreshed every few seconds.

Which airlines fly from Wellington International Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Air New Zealand, Sounds Air, Jetstar Airways, LFT and Bromma Air Maintenance.

What are the main connections from Wellington International Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Auckland (AKL, 242), Christchurch (CHC, 209), Nelson (NSN, 155), Blenheim (BHE, 94) and Napier (NPE, 63). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Wellington? +

Yes. Thanks to multilateration (MLAT) the network reconstructs the position of aircraft without full ADS-B too, including military and state flights, whenever they are received by feeders in the area. Nothing is filtered out.

What are the codes for Wellington International Airport? +

Wellington International Airport has IATA code WLG and ICAO code NZWN. It lies in Wellington Region, New Zealand, at coordinates -41.32684, 174.80686.

Is the flight data free and open? +

Yes. The live map and the Free API plan cost nothing, and the data is published under the open CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; paid API plans for higher volumes help cover the infrastructure costs.

Nearby airports

All airports →
BHE · NZWB
Woodbourne Airport
Marlborough Region, New Zealand
PMR · NZPM
Palmerston North Airport
Manawatu-Wanganui Region, New Zealand
NSN · NZNS
Nelson Airport
Nelson Region, New Zealand
WAG · NZWU
Wanganui Airport
Manawatu-Wanganui Region, New Zealand

Improve coverage over Wellington

Coverage quality depends on the density of receivers. With a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR antenna you can help track flights over Wellington Region, New Zealand.

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