Amberley Beach Surf Forecast

/ Canterbury (28 surf breaks) /

New Zealand (466 surf breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

Amberley Beach surfForecast / Canterbury / New Zealand

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 5 pm Saturday 06 Sep 2025 NZST

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

Amberley Beach surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

Today's Amberley Beach sea temperature is 10.9° C
(Which is 1.3°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Amberley Beach today?

The current surf forecast for Amberley Beach at 7PM is: 0.3m 12s primary swell from a East-southeast direction and 0.3m 4s secondary swell from a Southeast direction (forecast issued at 05:00pm September 06). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-shore.

Time (NZST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (06 Sep)	-	-
Afternoon (06 Sep)	1ft (0.3m)	13s
Evening (06 Sep)	1ft (0.3m)	12s

Table - waves today at Amberley Beach. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

12 Days Hourly

Print Table

	Saturday 06			Sunday 07								Monday 08								Tuesday 09
	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM
Rating (10 max)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	!	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	S	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE	E	SE	SE	NE	SE	SSE	SE	SE
Period(s) (?)	13	12	12	12	12	12	15	10	17	16	14	14	12	12	10	9	12	9	9	5	10	14	14	11
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	44	42	36	54	56	14	37	65	491	1031	4477	475	237	180	125	87	176	74	90	97	60	116	89	78
Wind (km/h)	ENE	NE	NNW	NW	NW	SW	W	W	S	SW	W	W	WNW	WNW	NNW	NE	ENE	NE	NNE	N	NNW	NNW	NW	W
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	glass	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass
High Tide / height (m)						3:37AM 1.81				4:04PM 1.97				4:24AM 1.88				4:50PM 2.00				5:12AM 1.94
Low Tide / height (m)				9:32PM 0.27				9:47AM 0.17				10:19PM 0.20				10:37AM 0.12				11:08PM 0.13				11:29AM 0.08

	Saturday 06			Sunday 07								Monday 08								Tuesday 09
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:41	-
Sunset	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:08	-	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	9	8	5	4	7	6	8	11	11	9	8	6	6	6	7	9	10	9	7	5	4	4	7	11
Feels °C (?)	7	4	0	-2	0	2	4	7	4	5	4	2	2	2	4	4	4	3	3	1	0	0	4	9

Map Icons:
Break
Live Wave Height (m)
Live Wind Speed (km/h)
Surf Rating (10 Max)
Ocean Swells (m)
Wind Speed (km/h)

Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Canterbury

Wind Update Still cross-shore at Amberley Beach (light winds from the NE at Christchurch International Airport 37 km from Amberley Beach). 0.8m 4s local chop from the SE with a 0.4m 13s groundswell from the ESE and a 0.2m 7s swell from the SSE. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
1 hour 6 minutes ago Amberley Beach

Expand

View all

37 km away, 1 h 6 min ago

17 km/h

0.0

10.9

Air / Water (°C)

Please reload the page to see if there are any updates.

FREE! Surf-Forecast.com widget for your website

The surf report / weather widget below is available to embed on third party websites free of charge and provides a summary of our Amberley Beach surf forecast. Simply grab the html code snippet that we provide and paste it into your own site. You can choose your preferred language and metric/imperial units for the surf forecast feed to suit users of your site. Click here to get the code.