How to Get All Shipping Zones and Rates in WooCommerce

You can get all shipping zones and rates in WooCommerce by loading the shipping zone data store directly, looping through each WC_Shipping_Zone object, and then iterating its shipping methods to access cost, taxability, and enabled status for every configured rate.

Why You’d Need to Loop Through Zones Programmatically

• Custom shipping calculators or estimators on the product or cart page need direct access to zone/rate data
• Auditing or exporting your full shipping configuration is easier through code than clicking through each zone in wp-admin
• Custom reports or dashboards showing shipping coverage need this data structured programmatically

Step 1: Get All Shipping Zones (Including “Rest of the World”)

/** Return every shipping zone, including the default "Rest of the World" zone */
function get_all_woocommerce_shipping_zones() {

    $data_store = WC_Data_Store::load( 'shipping-zone' );
    $raw_zones  = $data_store->get_zones();
    $zones      = array();

    foreach ( $raw_zones as $raw_zone ) {
        $zones[] = new WC_Shipping_Zone( $raw_zone );
    }

    $zones[] = new WC_Shipping_Zone( 0 ); // the catch-all zone

    return $zones;
}

Step 2: Loop Through Each Zone’s Shipping Methods

/** Return every configured shipping rate across all zones */
function get_all_woocommerce_shipping_rates() {

    $rates = array();

    foreach ( get_all_woocommerce_shipping_zones() as $zone ) {
        foreach ( $zone->get_shipping_methods() as $method ) {
            $rates[] = array(
                'zone_name' => $zone->get_zone_name(),
                'title'     => $method->title,
                'enabled'   => $method->is_enabled(),
                'taxable'   => $method->is_taxable(),
            );
        }
    }

    return $rates;
}

Troubleshooting

The “Rest of the World” zone is missing from results

That zone isn’t returned by the data store’s get_zones() call by default — it needs to be manually appended with new WC_Shipping_Zone( 0 ), as shown above.

Disabled shipping methods still appear in the results

Check is_enabled() on each method and filter accordingly if you only want active, customer-facing rates rather than every configured method regardless of status.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cache the computed zone and rate list with a transient if you’re calling this on every page load, since re-querying the shipping zone data store on every single request adds unnecessary overhead once you have more than a handful of zones configured.

Conclusion

The shipping zone data store combined with each zone’s get_shipping_methods() call is how you get all shipping zones and rates in WooCommerce programmatically, whether for a custom calculator or an internal audit.

See also How to Show Shipping Rates on the WooCommerce Single Product Page. Then read How to Hide Other Shipping Rates When Free Shipping Is Available in WooCommerce.

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