New Zealand number plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real New Zealand number plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 18 plate formats issued in New Zealand and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: MI8902.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi) or a licensed plate maker, and showing a registration that was not issued to the vehicle is an offence in most places.
Private by design. The page downloads an empty plate and writes your registration into it on your device; the registration is never sent to us. Need many plates, or plates in your own app? The plates API returns every plate and its empty template for each format.
- Size
- No plate size is set in the law
- Format
- LLL999, for example VIM512 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Every fact about New Zealand number plates, with its source
Every New Zealand plate you can make
18 plates across 8 classes (standard, consular, dealer, diplomatic, government, motorcycle, personalized, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. New Zealand number plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank New Zealand number plate templates.
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Standard 1964 (1964–1986) Format LL9999 · e.g. MI8902 Format, years and sources
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Standard 1986 (1986–2001) Format LL9999 · e.g. ME2415 Format, years and sources
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Standard 2001 (2001 → today) Format LLL999 · e.g. VIM512 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle 1988 (1988–2009) Format 99LLL · e.g. 34YDG Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle 2007 (2007 → today) Format L9LLL · e.g. K9MKV Format, years and sources
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Trailer 2002 (2002–2014) Format L999L · e.g. F171T Format, years and sources
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Trailer 2024 (2024 → today) Format 9LL99 · e.g. 4JU44 Format, years and sources
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Personalized: Personalised (1988 → today) Format LLLLLL · e.g. LEXYXO Format, years and sources
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Dealer: Trade 1999 (1999–2016) Format X9999 · e.g. X3618 Format, years and sources
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Dealer: Trade 2016 (2016 → today) Format X99999 · e.g. X38241 Format, years and sources
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Dealer: Trade heavy (2016 → today) Format X9999 · e.g. X3803 Format, years and sources
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Government CR (2011 → today) Format CR999 · e.g. CR669 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic DC (~1995 → today) Format DC999 · e.g. DC643 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic dcc (~1995 → today) Format 999DCC · e.g. 532DCC Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic FC (~1995 → today) Format FC999 · e.g. FC371 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic fcc (~1995 → today) Format 999FCC · e.g. 885FCC Format, years and sources
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Consular CC (~1995 → today) Format CC999 · e.g. CC446 Format, years and sources
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Consular ccc (~1995 → today) Format 999CCC · e.g. 479CCC Format, years and sources
How the generator works
- Choose a country or state, then the plate: the standard plate first, then motorcycle, personalized, historic and the rest, each with the years it was issued.
- Where a plate was issued in several looks (front and rear colours, an older base), choose the design.
- Type a registration, a name or any text. It is drawn on the plate as you type, in the plate's own lettering, and shrunk to fit when it is long (24 characters at most). The generator also says whether it fits that plate's real format, the one the issuing authority publishes; tick "Only real formats" to draw real registrations only and see which plates a registration fits. Characters the plate's lettering does not have, like emoji, are left out, and the generator names them.
- Download the plate as SVG (a vector for print and design tools) or PNG (2400 pixels wide), copy a link, or copy the code to embed it on a web page.
More New Zealand number plates
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