New Zealand New Year 2025. Punga tree fern, haast pass, south island, new zealand. Lunar new year is a major celebration in many parts of asia, but its celebration is also significant in new zealand where a sizable chinese and asian population exists.

In auckland, new zealand’s largest city, tens of thousands people will gather around the sky tower which erupts in spectacular. Closely connected with the maramataka (the māori lunar calendar), the reappearance of the matariki stars in the early morning sky brings the past year to a close and marks the.