The east coast of the North Island is the place to be this weekend with sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-20s, forecasters say.
A high pressure system sliding towards the country next week is going to bring warmer, drier and sunnier weather to many holiday spots and main centres - but before it arrives, rain, showers and windy weather are going to beset some people, WeatherWatch warned.
Tauranga and the Coromandel Peninsula are the places to be this weekend, forecasters said, with slight westerlies but sunny conditions with highs in the mid 20s.
Next week looks even sunnier for the east, apart from the risk of a shower on Monday.
MetService duty forecaster John Law said the weekend would start off with a narrow high-pressure pattern moving across most of the country.