The All Blacks won't play in Christchurch next year but will return to where the professional Test era began when they face Argentina in Napier.
The 2014 schedule, released on Tuesday, features three home Tests against England in June followed by a Rugby Championship that follows the same travel structure as this year.
It is followed by a third Bledisloe Cup Test against Australia in Brisbane on October 18.
England will play Tests in Auckland (June 7), Dunedin (June 14) and Hamilton (June 21).
They will probably be forced to field a weakened team for the Eden Park Test as it falls just a week after the English Premiership club final.
Coach Stuart Lancaster says the tour will be hugely valuable against the world champion All Blacks, who have won their last 33 Tests on home soil.
"This is our final tour before the World Cup and is massively important for us to benchmark ourselves against the number one team in the world," he said.
"Playing three Tests and a midweek match will give us the opportunity to take 35 to 40 players who will get a chance to lay down a marker 15 months out from the World Cup."
The midweek game is in Christchurch against the seven-time Super Rugby champion Crusaders on June 17.
Crusaders chief executive Hamish Riach says the lack of a Test in Christchurch next year is countered by confirmation it will host Argentina in 2015.
That will be one of just two Tests played in New Zealand in a truncated leadup to the World Cup.
As they did this year, the All Blacks open their Rugby Championship title defence against Australia in Sydney, on August 16.
They host the Wallabies in Auckland a week later before facing the Pumas at Napier's McLean Park on September 6.
New Zealand haven't played at the 22,000-seat venue since beating Samoa 51-10 in 1996, in what was the first Test in the world to be played after rugby turned professional.
Napier hosted two World Cup pool matches in 2011.
The All Blacks' complete their home season against South Africa in Wellington on September 13 before facing the Pumas and Springboks on the road.
The Test in South Africa on October 4 will be played at Johannesburg's Ellis Park for a second successive year.
The schedule for New Zealand's season-ending tour of Europe is still to be confirmed although it is expected to begin with a game in the United States in early November.
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