Spooky's Surf Forecast and Surf Reports

(West Coast South Island, New Zealand)

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Spooky's Surf Guide

Spooky's Spot Info

Type:	Rating:	Reliability:	Todays Sea Temp*:
Beach	4	fairly consistent	15.2°C*ocean temperature recorded from satellite

Surfing Spooky's:

The best conditions reported for surf at Spooky's occur when a Southwest swell combines with an offshore wind direction from the East.

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

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Interactive Spooky's surf break location map. View information about nearby surf breaks, their wave consistency and rating compared to other spots in the region. Current swell conditions from local buoys are shown along with live wind speed and direction from nearby weather stations. Click icons on the map for more detail.

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Please note that some surf spot locations are approximate to protect their exact location while others are not shown at close zoom level.

Spooky's Surf Forecasts:

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Todays Surf Summary
Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 04:02 Local Time

m, °C	Tuesday 05
ft, °F	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM
Wave (m)	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW
Period (s)	13	14	14	14
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass

Tides at Spooky's

Current tide and informaton

For Nine Mile, 5 km from Spooky's.

Next High Water: 12:50pm | 2.44m

Next Low Water: 06:43am | 0.45m

NEXT	IS AT (local time)	remaining
high tide
low tide

Spooky's Sea Temperature

The water temperature (15.2 °C) at Spooky's is quite cool. If the sun does come out as forecast, it should feel warm enough to surf in a good sealed spring wetsuit. Some surfers would prefer to wear gloves and boots too. Effective windchill factor of (11.0 °C) will make the air and water feel about the same temperature.

Today, many surfers would wear a spring wetsuit, neoprene gloves and boots.