Albany is a northern suburb of North Shore, one of several cities in the Auckland metropolitan area in northern New Zealand. It is located to the north of the Waitemata Harbour, 15 kilometres northwest of the Auckland city centre.

One of the city's newest suburbs, it was until relatively recently a town in its own right, and still has a feeling of not being truly a part of the city, which lies predominantly to the southeast of it. Much of the land to the north of Albany is still semi-rural.

Albany contains the northern campus of Massey University; it also contains one of the Auckland Region's biggest sports facilities, North Harbour Stadium .

New zealand's main maximum security prison is located at Paremoremo, five kilometres to the west of Albany.