Surf-Forecast | Wavetraps Surf Guide

Lat Long: 42.44° S 171.19° E

Issued: 6 am 02 Nov 2026 (local time)

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Today's Wavetraps sea temperature is

14.1°C

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

Photo by: Rob Davies

Wavetraps Surf Guide

Wavetraps in West Coast South Island is a quite exposed sandbar break that has fairly consistent surf and can work at any time of the year. Offshore winds blow from the southeast with some shelter here from north winds. Still reasonable in light onshore winds Waves just as likely from local windswells as from distant groundswells and the ideal swell direction is from the west southwest. The sandbar break offers mainly left hand waves. When it's working here, it can get crowded. Pollution may be a hazard at this break.

Wavetraps Spot Info

Type:	Rating:	Reliability:	Todays Sea Temp*:
Sandbar	3	fairly consistent	14.1°C*ocean temperature recorded from satellite

Surfing Wavetraps:

The best conditions reported for surf at Wavetraps occur when a West-southwest swell combines with an offshore wind direction from the Southeast.

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Explore Wavetraps Location Map

Interactive Wavetraps 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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Live Wave Height (m)
Live Wind Speed (km/h)
Surf Rating (10 Max)
Ocean Swells (m)
Wind Speed (km/h)

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

Wavetraps Surf Forecasts:

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Todays Surf Summary
Monday, 2 November 2026, 09:15 Local Time

m, °C	Monday 02
ft, °F	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM
Wave (m)	NW	NW	WNW	WNW
Period (s)	8	9	11	11
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on

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Tides at Wavetraps

Current tide and informaton

For Greymouth, New Zealand, 2 km from Wavetraps.

Next High Water: 05:45pm | 2.94m

Next Low Water: 11:26am | 1.18m

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

Wavetraps Sea Temperature

The Wavetraps water temperature is rather cool (14.1 °C) and the air temperature will feel about the same. A good quality spring wetsuit with optional neoprene boots should suffice. No need for wetsuit gloves.

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