Tens of thousands of revellers flocked to Mount Maunganui and downtown Tauranga for their New Year's Eve celebrations.
Mount Maunganui switched into New Year's Eve party mode early.
An estimated 50,000 swarmed into Marine Parade and the main Mount Streets, and numbers swelled further as midnight approached.
There were people everywhere, and bars and restaurants were jam-packed.
Later in the night thousands of young people danced on the sand in front of the iHeartRadio Beach Stage.