Hawaii Hunting License: $20.00, $30 With a Tag
In Hawaii the licence is $20.00 and the first deer costs $30
What a season in Hawaii actually costs to start
A resident hunting licence in Hawaii is $20.00, sold as the Hunting License including Wildlife Conservation Stamp. Hunting a deer on it means buying the Black Tailed Deer Hunts, Rifle tag as well, at $10, so the first day costs $30 rather than $20.00. That is 50% more than the licence price a search result would have shown. 39 of the 50 states read here work the same way. The licence itself runs a licence year with its own start and end dates, set by the state rather than by the calendar.
- Resident licence $20.00, the Hunting License including Wildlife Conservation Stamp
- Nonresident licence $105.00
- First deer on top of it $10, the Black Tailed Deer Hunts, Rifle tag
- What the first morning costs $30
- The licence runs runs a licence year with its own start and end dates, set by the state rather than by the calendar
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife sells it through its own licensing system, which is where a fee change appears first.
Every Hawaii hunting licence, at the price Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife prints
Eleven tags and permits were read off Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife's own fee pages for Hawaii, each one priced below with the row it sits in. A tag is a second purchase, and the licence price on its own is the first half of what a season costs.
- Hunting License including Wildlife Conservation Stamp$20.00
game mammals on public hunting land, with a tag or permit bought on top for most hunts and a separate stamp for game birds
annual
Hunting License including Wildlife Conservation Stamp* | Resident $20.00 | Non-Resident $105.00 | Senior $10.00 | Kalaupapa Patient $10.00
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Hunting License including Wildlife Conservation Stamp$105.00
game mammals on public hunting land for a visitor, with a tag or permit bought on top for most hunts and a separate stamp for game birds
annual
Hunting License including Wildlife Conservation Stamp* | Resident $20.00 | Non-Resident $105.00 | Senior $10.00 | Kalaupapa Patient $10.00
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Senior Citizen free hunting licensefree, with a $10 Conservation stamp to validate it
the same hunting licence at no charge for a resident of sixty five or over, once the stamp that validates it is bought
annual
To obtain a free license as a Senior Citizen You are 65 years or older and a resident of Hawai`i. (Residents 65 years or older must obtain a $10 Conservation stamp to validate their free hunting license to hunt Game Mammals and a $10 Game bird stamp to hunt Game Birds.)
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source - Adult Resident, armed forces on active duty stationed in Hawaii$20.00
the resident licence, bought at the resident price by someone posted to the islands and by their family
annual
To Purchase as an Adult Resident For any person who has resided in the State for one year or longer, is purchasing with a credit card that utilized a Hawai`i billing address, or who is a member of the armed forces of the United States on active duty stationed in Hawai`i and the spouse and children thereof.
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
When a Hawaii hunting license expires Licence year
Hawaii runs a licence year with its own start and end dates, set by the state rather than by the calendar. The year turns on a date the state picked, usually in the spring or early autumn, so what a licence is worth depends on where in that year it was bought. The sentence the state uses is quoted below and links to the page it came from.
A Hawaii hunting licence runs to the end of the state's fiscal year whenever it was bought, so one bought in spring has only weeks left on it.
Licenses purchased are valid from the date of purchase through Fiscal Year 2027 (Date of purchase - June 30, 2027) *ALL SALES FINAL - NO REFUNDSHawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Hunter education in Hawaii
Hawaii requires hunter education, and it sets the requirement without a birth year cutoff, so the test is what the applicant has done rather than when they were born. 29 of the 50 states read here use a birth year instead, and those years run from 1949 to 1986.
Hawaii asks everyone for a hunter education number before it will sell a licence, and the only way round it is an exemption number, which is issued to an out of state course graduate or to a long standing resident hunter.
The following are required to purchase a hunting license online: a valid Hawai`i Hunter Education Number; or a valid Exemption Number issued by the Hawai`i Hunter Education Program, applicable only to: Hawai`i residents born prior to January 01, 1972 with proof of a Hawai`i Hunting License prior to 1990; and non-residents who have completed a basic hunter education certification course in another state, Canadian province, or other country that has a course recognized by the International Hunter Education Association).Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
Who counts as a Hawaii resident
Hawaii draws the resident line at 365 days, and the difference between the two sides of it is $20.00 against $105.00. The statutory definition is quoted below.
To Purchase as an Adult Resident For any person who has resided in the State for one year or longer, is purchasing with a credit card that utilized a Hawai`i billing address, or who is a member of the armed forces of the United States on active duty stationed in Hawai`i and the spouse and children thereof.Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read 23 September 2026. Read it at the source
39 of 50 states sell the animal separately from the right to hunt it
Hawaii works the way most of the country does. Of the 50 states read here, 39 sell the tag apart from the licence and 11 print it on the licence instead. Where the tag is separate, the middle state adds 95% to the licence price before anybody has left the driveway.
Resident licences across these states run from $10 to $64.54, and nonresident licences from $50 to $410, which is the widest spread on any licence this site has read. 25 states run a licence year of their own, 9 give a full year from the day of sale, and 9 end it on 31 December whatever month it was bought.
The national table puts Hawaii beside every other state on licence price, first tag, and the two added together.
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Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife read 23 September 2026, with every licence price, tag price, expiry rule and hunter education cutoff above linked to the page it came from. Fees are set by statute or by a commission and change between seasons, so the agency page beside each figure is what governs on the day. Tags on top