AquaFonte lists 24 verified thermal springs in New Zealand, each with its own page: temperature, minerals, treatments, and directions.
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Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools & Spa
Hanmer Springs, Canterbury, South Island · 52°C
A genuine geothermal hot springs complex in Canterbury, fed by fault-heated water rising through the Hope Fault system.
Hell's Gate Mud Bath & Spas
Tikitere, Rotorua, North Island
A large, actively erupting geothermal reserve on State Highway 30 between lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti, with mud baths fed by sulphurous mineral water.
Hot Water Beach
Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato · 64°C
A beach on the Coromandel Peninsula where geothermal water at up to 64°C seeps upward through the sand at low tide — visitors dig their own soaking pools with spades rented from the nearby café.
Kaitoke Hot Springs
Aotea / Great Barrier Island, Auckland Region, North Island
An undeveloped natural sulphurous hot spring on Great Barrier Island (Aotea), reached by a 40-45 minute walk through wetlands and regenerating forest.
Kawhia Hot Springs (Te Puia)
Ocean Beach, near Kawhia, Waikato, North Island · 45°C
A remote, tidal, natural geothermal spring on the black-sand Ocean Beach near Kawhia Harbour, where visitors dig their own hot pools in the sand.
Kerosene Creek
Waiotapu, near Rotorua, North Island
A free, natural hot spring stream in native bush near Waiotapu, with a small waterfall and no commercial development.
Mangatainoka Hot Springs
Kaweka Forest Park, Hawke's Bay, North Island
A free, undeveloped backcountry hot spring on the Mohaka River in Kaweka Forest Park, reached by a multi-hour tramp.
Mangatutu Hot Springs
Kaweka Forest Park, Hawke's Bay, North Island
A remote, undeveloped natural hot spring beside the Mohaka River in Kaweka Forest Park, reached by gravel road and a river ford.
Maruia Hot Springs
Lewis Pass, South Island · 56°C
A geothermal sulphur spring resort at Lewis Pass in the Southern Alps, with a source pH of 7.3 and water emerging at about 56°C.
Nga Hua o Morere
Mōrere, East Coast, North Island
Rare natural saltwater geothermal hot springs on New Zealand's East Coast, piped into public pools set in native rainforest.
Nga Waiariki Ngawha Springs
Kaikohe, Northland, North Island · 32°C
A Māori-owned geothermal hot pool complex in Northland, whose name means 'boiling spring,' with 16 public and 8 private pools of varying temperature.
Otumuheke Stream (Spa Thermal Park)
Taupō, North Island
A free, natural geothermal stream in Taupō's Spa Thermal Park, where hot mineral water flows down to meet the Waikato River.
Palm Springs Geothermal Pools
Parakai, Auckland, North Island
A geothermal pool complex in Parakai, northwest of Auckland, drawing on natural hot mineral bore water.
Polynesian Spa
Rotorua, North Island
A historic geothermal spa on the shore of Lake Rotorua, drawing on two distinct natural springs used since the 19th century.
Rotorua Geothermal Fields
Bay of Plenty, North Island · 80°C
Māori sacred volcanic springs in one of the world's most active geothermal zones, featuring boiling mud pools and silica terraces.
Taupo DeBretts Hot Springs
Taupō, North Island
A long-established geothermal mineral pool complex in Taupō, fed by natural thermal water from the Onekeneke valley since at least the 1870s.
Te Aroha Mineral Spas
Te Aroha, Waikato, North Island
A historic spa town at the foot of Mount Te Aroha, home to the Mokena Geyser, described as the world's only hot soda-water geyser.
The Lost Spring
Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island
A commercial geothermal spa in Whitianga built around a mineral hot spring struck by drilling in 1989, more than 600 metres underground.
Tokaanu Thermal Pools
Tūrangi, Taupō District, North Island · 37°C
A historic geothermal pool complex at the southern end of Lake Taupō, fed by natural hot mineral pools set in silica sinter basins.
Wai Ariki Hot Springs & Spa
Rotorua, North Island (Lake Rotorua lakefront)
A Ngāti Whakaue-owned luxury spa on the Lake Rotorua lakefront drawing water from the same Rotorua geothermal field that feeds the historic Polynesian Spa.
Waikite Valley Thermal Pools
Waikato, North Island · 99°C
Pure 100% natural alkaline spring water — New Zealand's largest boiling spring feeds open-air thermal pools in a pristine rural valley.
Waimangu Volcanic Valley
Bay of Plenty, Rotorua · 55°C
The world's youngest geothermal system, born from the catastrophic 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption — a valley of acid lakes, boiling craters, and silica terraces that opened overnight from solid earth.
Wairakei Terraces
Wairakei, Taupō, North Island
A geothermal valley attraction near Taupō where real thermal water flows over man-made silica terraces built as a modern echo of the lost Pink and White Terraces.
Welcome Flat Hot Pools
Westland Tai Poutini National Park, West Coast, South Island
Remote natural hot pools fed by geothermal springs beside Welcome Flat Hut on the Copland Track in Westland Tai Poutini National Park.