The Super 15 draw has confirmed the Highlanders will play all eight home games at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
Their campaign starts against the Blues on February 22, and features two byes in the first half of the season.
The annual trip to South Africa is handily placed in the middle of the season, and straight after the second bye.
The Highlanders have five of their first seven games at home and the final regular-season game is set down for July 12, against the Crusaders in Christchurch.
After the opening Blues match, the Highlanders will travel north to take on the defending champion Chiefs in Hamilton. The side will not play at Easter, when it will have its second bye.
General manager Roger Clark said the Highlanders had hosted an Easter game in the past couple of seasons.
Although the fixture had been reasonably successful in terms of the gate, he was glad to have Easter off.
Clark said the franchise was reasonably happy but draws were somewhat out of any side's control.
''A draw is a draw. You take what you can get. It is a massive logistical exercise in getting every team what it wants,'' he said.
Under the quirks of the Super 15, the Highlanders do not play one Australian team and one team from South Africa each season.
Next season, they will not play the Brumbies or the Cheetahs, two teams which made the Super 15 playoffs this year.
Clark said from the point of view of attracting crowds, the draw next year was better as it had only one home game during the university holidays. Last year, three games were played at tertiary break time.
Home games are evenly split between Friday and Saturdays. The Highlanders will play the Waratahs in Sydney on a Sunday afternoon.
Clark hoped for a big crowd for the opening game against the Blues. After that, crowds depended greatly on results.
The Highlanders have three pre-season games organised and will take on new opposition, with just one game at home.
They host the Brumbies, then travel to Motueka to take on the Crusaders, and will finish with a match against the Waratahs in Newcastle.
Although a venue has yet to be finalised for the match against the Brumbies, it may be in Queenstown.
The Chiefs and Blues had been usual pre-season opposition but Clark said they were looking elsewhere.
The Chiefs were interested in a match-up against European champion Toulon while the Blues had other priorities.
The Highlanders had signed two-year deals with their new pre-season opposition so would have home pre-season games against the Crusaders and Waratahs in 2015.
