Para Para Rivermouth Surf Photo by Rob Davies

Lat Long: 40.72° S 172.69° E

Issued: 11 am 19 Sep 2026 (local time)

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Today's Para Para Rivermouth sea temperature is

13.7°C

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

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3 hours earlier	Peak Waves	Wind	Wind Waves	Swell 1	Swell 2	3 hours later
	E	ESE	ESE	N	WSW
	7 s	cross- on	7 s	7 s	15 s

Open ocean wave model on 20 April at 12 pm

Forecast wind and swell just offshore from Para Para Rivermouth around the time the photo was taken

Image captured One hour and 11 minutes after low water (rising ordinary tide). Tide height was 1.5m (4.9 ft). Range 5.35m (17.6 ft). Toggle tide graph

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Para Para Rivermouth Surf Photo: 'Para Para left' by Rob Davies

Soft wind waves near the boulder point at the south of the Para Para Beach in Golden Bay. The mix of rivers and boulder points looks ideal, but Farewell spit blocks almost all Tasman Sea swell so all you can get here is generated in the 150kms fetch to Kapiti. Strong east winds over that stretch are rare. In theory, an east gale should kick up about 4m of swell over that fetch. The SE gale that caused this swell sent 4.5m swells towards Taranaki, with about half that in Golden Bay making for waist to shoulder high surf.

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Photo taken at: 11:48 am 20 Apr 2013