Wellington Travel Safety Guide — New Zealand

Safety Score: 8.5/10 · Value: 6.5/10 · Beauty: 7.8/10

Wellington punches well above its weight for a city of 400,000, home to New Zealand's national museum (Te Papa), a world-class café and restaurant scene fuelled by flat whites and fresh produce, a thriving arts scene, and the Weta Workshop that created the visual effects for The Lord of the Rings. The harbour setting between steep bush-covered hills is genuinely beautiful, though Wellington is notorious for wind (it earns the nickname 'Windy Welly').

Tripvey Score — estimated from travel advisories and publicly available data. Not official safety advice.