Catlins Surf

Detailed Catlins surf forecast maps and the latest eyeball surf report from local surfers in the region. Near-shore swell is shown on the map together with the surf forecast rating for spots in Catlins. Find the best places to surf in offshore conditions by selecting the wind option on the forecast map. Windsurfers and kite surfers can also use this option to find more favorable cross-shore conditions in Catlins. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in Catlins over the next 7 days. Surf photos from Catlins and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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Catlins Surf Forecast map for predicting the best wave and wind conditions across the region. For surfers, the map shows the most powerful swell tracking across near-shore open water and not the peak waves experienced by boats out at sea. Move your mouse over the ocean swell symbols or the surf breaks on the coastline to see a more detailed surf forecast including wave period and wind conditions. The forecast updates every 6 hours and most live weather reports update every hour. You can animate the Catlins Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations. Surf breaks shown along the Catlins coastline are also listed below.

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	Wed	Thursday 08			Friday 09			Saturday 10			Sunday 11			Monday 12			Tuesday 13			Wednesday 14
	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins
Rating	3	3	3	2	0	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	5	3	3	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.7 SW	0.9 SW	0.5 SSW	2.1 WSW	1.3 SW	1.2 SW	1.3 SW	0.9 SW	0.6 SW	4.0 WSW	4.5 SW	2.4 SSW	1.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 WSW	1.9 SW	1.2 SW	2.1 SW	2.2 SW	1.5 SSW
Period(s) (?)	10	13	14	13	17	12	15	14	14	14	13	8	11	10	9	10	11	10	11	12	14	14
Energy(?)	170	290	1196	326	270	1796	1696	887	670	279	136	1795	4274	1064	674	1837	3065	870	591	1270	1850	908
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	off	off
High Tide / height (m)		7:35AM 2.37		7:10PM 2.09	8:00AM 1.80		8:03PM 1.97	8:54AM 1.70		9:23PM 1.64	9:50AM 1.62		10:44PM 2.17	11:10AM 2.14		11:42PM 2.16	11:45AM 1.56		11:57PM 1.82	12:17PM 1.80		1:07AM 1.67
Low Tide / height (m)	12:56AM 0.15		1:27PM 0.26	1:28AM 0.29		2:19PM 0.33	2:22AM 0.42		3:12PM 0.40	3:38AM 0.45		4:06PM 0.46		4:50AM 1.13	5:22PM 1.14		5:27AM 0.55	5:49PM 0.51		5:59AM 0.64	6:37PM 0.49
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	mod. rain	heavy rain	mod. rain	light rain	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	1	-	2	1	-	-	8	28	10	2	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	2	7	1
High °C	15	18	16	18	17	17	14	16	16	18	15	13	11	14	17	13	17	17	14	16	13	11
Low °C	14	15	15	14	16	16	11	12	15	17	13	12	10	11	15	10	16	16	12	13	11	9
Chill °C (?)	15	18	16	18	16	16	13	15	15	17	12	10	8	11	16	11	17	17	14	16	13	9
Sunrise	-	6:00	-	-	5:58	-	-	6:01	-	-	6:03	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:03	-	-	6:05	-	-
Sunset	-	-	9:36	-	-	9:36	-	-	9:37	-	-	9:37	-	-	9:32	-	-	9:34	-	-	9:34	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.7 SW	0.9 SW	0.6 SW	1.1 SW	1.9 SW	1.3 SW	1.3 SW	0.9 SW	0.6 SW	0.3 ENE	0.4 NE	2.4 SSW	1.3 S	0.9 SSE	2.2 WSW	1.9 SW	1.2 SW	2.1 SW	2.2 SW	1.5 SSW
Period (s)	10	13	14	13	12	16	7	9	14	14	13	8	9	10	9	10	11	10	11	12	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 WSW	0.2 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.4 ENE	0.5 SSW	0.2 ENE	1.3 SW	1.2 SW	0.2 ENE	0.1 E	0.5 E	-	-	0.2 ENE	0.1 E	-	0.9 SSE	0.7 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.3 SE	0.3 SE	0.1 SE
Period (s)	5	9	8	5	17	7	15	14	6	10	7	-	-	9	15	-	9	9	9	9	9	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.6 W	0.4 NE	-	0.8 SW	2.1 WSW	2.1 WSW	0.4 NE	-	0.6 ENE	2.1 WNW	4.0 WSW	4.5 SW	1.9 W	1.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 WSW	-	1.7 WSW	-	-	0.4 ENE
Period (s)	-	4	3	-	5	12	8	4	-	4	6	8	11	6	9	10	11	-	7	-	-	3

	Wed	Thursday 08								Friday 09								Saturday 10
	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins
Rating	2	1	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	4	4	2	2	0	2	4	4	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 SW	0.4 SW	1.1 SW	0.8 SW	1.4 SW	1.5 SW	1.4 SW	1.8 SW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	2.1 WSW	0.5 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	2.2 WSW	1.3 SW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.2 SW	1.2 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	10	10	13	13	12	15	14	13	13	12	12	17	17	16	16	11	15	15	15	14	14
Energy(?)	253	50	243	253	587	658	781	1184	1051	930	1083	2304	270	401	468	428	2341	1696	655	516	882	825
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	-	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)				6:49AM 2.17	7:08AM 1.92				7:30PM 1.82				8:23AM 2.29				8:25PM 1.72				8:54AM 1.70
Low Tide / height (m)							1:04PM 0.31				1:49AM 0.25				2:38PM 0.94				2:22AM 0.42
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	clear	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	rain shwrs	light rain	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	heavy rain	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	8	19	9
Temp. °C	15	15	14	14	17	19	15	16	19	17	15	14	16	18	17	17	13	12	11	11	12	16
Chill °C (?)	15	15	14	13	17	19	14	15	19	16	14	12	15	17	16	16	12	11	10	11	10	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:03	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:34	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 SW	0.4 SW	1.1 SW	0.8 SW	1.4 SW	1.5 SW	1.4 SW	1.8 SW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.8 SW	1.9 SW	1.3 WSW	0.9 SW	1.3 SW	1.2 SW
Period (s)	10	10	10	13	13	12	15	14	13	13	12	12	12	17	16	16	10	7	9	9	9	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 NE	0.3 SW	0.4 NE	0.2 ENE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.2 SSE	0.2 ENE	0.7 NE	0.4 ENE	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.6 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	1.2 SW	1.3 SW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.2 SW	1.1 SW
Period (s)	9	5	9	9	9	8	9	8	5	5	18	18	17	12	12	12	15	15	15	15	14	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.6 W	-	-	-	0.6 NE	1.1 NE	0.5 WNW	-	2.1 WSW	0.8 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.0 SW	2.2 WSW	2.1 WSW	-	0.4 WNW	0.4 NE	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	5	5	3	-	12	5	6	7	7	11	8	-	4	4	-

	Wednesday 07	Thursday 08
	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins
Rating	2	1	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	4	4	2	2	0	2	4	4	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 SW	0.4 SW	1.1 SW	0.6 SW	1.0 SW	0.9 SW	0.7 SW	1.0 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	1.4 SW	1.5 SW	0.8 SSW	1.4 SW	1.7 SW	1.7 SW
Period(s) (?)	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	13	13	13	14	12	12	15	15	14	14
Energy(?)	263	50	253	98	227	170	110	208	243	243	426	426	118	149	147	156	611	658	473	781	1193	1168
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	cross- on	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross
High Tide / height (m)													7:35AM 2.37
Low Tide / height (m)						12:56AM 0.15													1:04PM 0.31
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
High °C	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	16	18	19	18	18	17	15	15
Chill °C (?)	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	16	18	19	18	18	17	14	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	9:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 SW	0.4 SW	1.1 SW	0.6 SW	1.0 SW	0.9 SW	0.7 SW	1.0 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	1.4 SW	1.5 SW	0.9 SW	1.4 SW	1.7 SW	1.7 SW
Period (s)	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	13	13	13	14	12	12	11	15	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 NE	0.2 ENE	0.4 NE	0.2 ENE	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.5 SW	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.8 SSW	0.2 SSE	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE
Period (s)	9	9	9	8	5	5	4	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	15	9	8	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.6 WSW	-	-	0.3 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 NE	0.5 NE
Period (s)	-	-	-	4	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	4