Vets in Wellington, Wellington Region
🚨 Emergency care3 vet clinics in Wellington. Call ahead for same-day availability; for after-hours crises, hit the red button.
Red markers = emergency clinics. Click a marker for details.
Kelburn Vets
44 Upland Road, Wellington, Wellington Region 6012
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-19:00, Sa 09:00-16:00
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
23 Tasman Street, Wellington, Wellington Region 6021
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-12:00
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
1 Grosvenor Terrace, Wellington, Wellington Region 6012
Unverified listing — call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
Emergency and after-hours cover in Wellington
None of the 3 practices we list in Wellington advertise emergency services — at 2am you are driving, so know where before you need to. Why most towns have no emergency hospital.
Nearest emergency hospitals outside Wellington
- Wellington After Hours Veterinary Clinic — Khandallah, ~6 km away, roughly a 11 min drive
- Springlands Vet Clinic — Springlands, ~73 km away, roughly a 54 min drive, open 24h
- Massey University Veterinary Teaching Hospital - Pet Emergency Centre — Palmerston North, ~126 km away, roughly a 1 hr 34 min drive, open 24h
- Hawkes Bay Urgent Care & After Hours Veterinary Clinic — Hastings, ~254 km away, roughly a 3 hr 9 min drive
Distances are straight-line from Wellington; drive times are estimates, not live traffic.
For a suspected poisoning, Animal Poisons Helpline on 0800 869 738 (free call) can give you treatment advice immediately — often while you are still deciding whether to drive anywhere.
What vets in Wellington say they offer
Grouped from what each practice states on its own website — we read 2 of the 3 listed here. A practice missing from a row hasn't said so on its site; that is not the same as not offering it, so call to check.
- Accepting new patients (1)
- Tasman Street Vet Centre
- Ultrasound (1)
- Tasman Street Vet Centre
- Orthopedic surgery (1)
- Tasman Street Vet Centre
About this list
Ordering is objective — 24/7 first, then emergency services, then alphabetical — and no clinic can pay for placement. Across New Zealand, an emergency exam typically runs NZ$150–NZ$300 and an overnight emergency NZ$900–NZ$3,000 — full cost breakdown · if you cannot pay.