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Season calendar

Kiwi export season by country

When New Zealand, Chile and Italy ship kiwifruit, month by month, and why the shipping window is so much longer than the harvest.

Available all year, peak November–August, from Chile, New Zealand and Italy. The rest of the year is shoulder supply rather than a gap.

Kiwi export calendar: which origin ships in which month.
Origin January February March April May June July August September October November December
Chile January: Not shipping February: Not shipping March: Shoulder April: Peak May: Peak June: Peak July: Shoulder August: Not shipping September: Not shipping October: Not shipping November: Not shipping December: Not shipping
New Zealand January: Not shipping February: Not shipping March: Not shipping April: Shoulder May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Shoulder October: Shoulder November: Shoulder December: Not shipping
Italy January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Shoulder May: Shoulder June: Not shipping July: Not shipping August: Not shipping September: Not shipping October: Shoulder November: Peak December: Peak
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of the origin rather than arrival weeks in your market.

The calendar has two halves that most buyers only ever see one of. Italy covers Europe’s winter and spring off an October harvest, almost entirely by truck, and it is the reason the Northern Hemisphere has a kiwi season at all. New Zealand is the origin that defines the crop for everyone else, with Chile filling the months around it; both harvest into the Southern Hemisphere autumn and both keep shipping long after the picking has finished. The Southern Hemisphere windows are worth what they are worth because they arrive once the Italian crop has run out — which means a short Italian year reprices a New Zealand programme six months before it sails.

That gap between harvest and shipping is the other thing to read off this calendar. Kiwis store in controlled atmosphere for months, so the window is set by the seller’s programme rather than by the tree, and the arrival date is a commercial decision rather than a botanical one. It is also what makes the five-week lane out of Tauranga possible at all: very little else would survive the voyage, and nothing else is deliberately held before starting it.

Chile

April–June peak · March, July shoulder Varieties: Hayward Load ports: Valparaíso, San Antonio, and Coronel

Roughly April to July, the last major thing to leave Chile in a normal year. Harvest runs into the Southern Hemisphere autumn and shipping continues from storage past it.

Chile kiwi: window and arrival weeks · Everything Chile ships

New Zealand

May–August peak · April, September–November shoulder Varieties: Hayward green, SunGold Load ports: Tauranga, Napier, and Nelson

Harvest runs from about February to June; shipping runs from March into November. New Zealand is the origin that defines this crop for a European or Asian buyer. The gap between those two ranges is the whole point: the fruit is held in store and released against a programme rather than against the harvest.

New Zealand kiwi: window and arrival weeks · Everything New Zealand ships

Italy

November–March peak · April–May, October shoulder Varieties: Hayward, gold Load ports: Genoa, Livorno, and Salerno

Harvest in October and November out of Lazio, Piedmont and the Veneto; shipping and selling from storage until about May. This is the row that makes the New Zealand and Chilean windows worth what they are worth — those origins arrive into the months when Italian fruit has run out.

Italy kiwi: window and arrival weeks · Everything Italy ships

FAQ

When are kiwis in season?
Kiwis are at peak November–August, shipping from Chile, New Zealand, and Italy. They are still available in September–October, on the shoulder of those windows rather than in volume.
Which countries export kiwis?
Chile, New Zealand, and Italy. These are export weeks out of the origin, not arrival weeks in your market — add the lane's transit on top.
When is the Italy kiwi season?
Italy ships kiwis November–March, with April–May and October at the shoulders.

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