East Cape Surf

Detailed East Cape 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 East Cape. 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 East Cape. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in East Cape over the next 7 days. Surf photos from East Cape and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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East Cape 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 East Cape Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations. Surf breaks shown along the East Cape coastline are also listed below.

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	Thursday 12			Friday 13			Saturday 14			Sunday 15			Monday 16			Tuesday 17			Wednesday 18			Thu
	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Whangaparaoa East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Tokomaru Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape
Rating	0	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	1	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.4 N	0.5 N	0.4 N	0.5 N	1.1 NE	1.1 ENE	0.5 N	1.2 ENE	1.4 E	2.0 ENE	3.0 S	3.0 S	2.5 S	2.3 S	1.8 S	1.5 S	1.3 S	0.8 SE	0.8 ESE	0.9 S	0.8 S	0.6 NNE
Period(s) (?)	16	16	15	14	6	6	13	8	10	11	10	11	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	10	10	10
Energy(?)	180	179	114	206	98	216	188	250	468	894	2337	2603	2133	1803	1304	1007	780	273	205	350	240	181
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	cross	glass	cross- on	off	glass
High Tide / height (m)		2:54PM 1.31		4:12AM 1.84	4:23PM 1.43		5:04AM 1.46	5:16PM 1.41		5:26AM 1.41	6:06PM 1.44		6:33AM 1.53	6:31PM 1.38		7:15AM 1.58		7:38PM 1.95	8:13AM 2.05		8:29PM 1.60	8:52AM 2.09
Low Tide / height (m)			9:49PM 0.72	10:27AM 0.82		10:39PM 0.44	11:11AM 0.54		11:31PM 0.40	11:38AM 0.43		12:24AM 0.36	12:18PM 0.50		12:43AM 0.28		1:45PM 0.60	1:57AM 0.47		2:31PM 0.51	2:40AM 0.20
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	heavy rain	heavy rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	1	1	-	1	3	45	13	9	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	22	23	19	22	21	21	20	20	18	18	16	16	21	21	17	21	22	17	21	21	17	22
Low °C	20	21	19	22	21	21	20	19	17	17	16	14	20	20	14	19	22	16	19	20	16	21
Chill °C (?)	22	23	19	22	21	21	20	20	17	17	14	16	21	21	17	21	22	16	21	21	17	22
Sunrise	6:31	-	-	6:33	-	-	6:33	-	-	6:33	-	-	6:35	-	-	6:35	-	-	6:37	-	-	6:37
Sunset	-	8:12	-	-	8:07	-	-	8:06	-	-	8:06	-	-	8:05	-	-	8:04	-	-	8:01	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.5 ESE	0.5 N	0.4 N	0.5 N	1.1 NE	1.1 ENE	0.9 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.4 E	2.0 ENE	1.6 E	3.0 S	2.5 S	2.3 S	1.8 S	1.5 S	1.3 S	0.8 SE	0.8 ESE	0.9 S	0.8 S	0.6 NNE
Period (s)	10	16	15	14	6	6	7	8	10	11	10	11	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 NE	0.3 N	0.4 NE	0.2 NNW	0.4 NNE	0.5 N	0.7 NW	0.6 NNW	0.8 NE	0.2 N	0.2 N	1.0 ESE	0.6 NE	1.0 E	0.8 ENE	1.0 SE	1.0 SE	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.8 SE	0.6 SE	0.6 E
Period (s)	8	12	8	10	14	13	5	6	8	12	12	12	8	9	8	13	12	8	8	11	10	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.7 E	0.9 NE	1.1 NE	1.1 NE	-	0.6 N	-	0.8 SSE	1.2 SSE	2.4 SSW	3.0 S	-	-	0.4 NNE	0.7 N	-	-	0.4 NW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	4	4	6	6	-	7	-	4	8	8	10	-	-	7	4	-	-	3	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 12					Friday 13								Saturday 14								Sun
	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM
Best forecast wave conditions in East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Whangaparaoa East Cape	Maraenui East Cape	Loisell's East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Loisell's East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape
Rating	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.4 N	0.5 ESE	0.5 N	0.4 N	0.4 N	0.3 N	1.1 NE	1.1 NE	0.6 N	1.1 NE	0.5 N	0.5 N	1.4 NE	1.1 NE	1.0 ENE	1.7 NE	0.5 N	1.1 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.4 E
Period(s) (?)	16	10	16	16	16	15	7	7	14	6	14	14	6	6	6	6	13	7	8	8	8	10
Energy(?)	115	149	214	153	125	105	224	234	276	96	117	155	198	104	91	391	188	222	250	336	308	468
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	on	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	off	off	off	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)			3:17PM 1.81					4:09AM 1.44				4:23PM 1.43				4:53AM 1.46				5:10PM 1.83
Low Tide / height (m)	9:20AM 0.55				9:45PM 0.44									10:11PM 0.39				11:19AM 0.80				11:42PM 0.69
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	risk thund- der	light rain	mod. rain	mod. rain	heavy rain	mod. rain	heavy rain	mod. rain	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	7	9	13	9	13	6	7	5	4	-	1
Temp. °C	21	22	22	21	19	17	19	19	23	22	21	21	21	21	21	20	20	20	20	19	19	18
Chill °C (?)	21	22	22	21	19	17	19	19	23	22	21	21	21	21	21	20	20	20	20	18	19	17
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:33	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	8:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:06	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.4 N	0.5 ESE	0.5 N	0.5 NNE	0.8 NNE	0.7 NNE	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.6 N	1.1 NE	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.4 S	1.1 NE	1.0 ENE	1.4 NE	0.9 ENE	1.1 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.4 E
Period (s)	16	10	16	6	5	7	15	14	14	6	14	14	9	6	6	6	7	7	8	8	8	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 N	0.5 S	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.4 N	0.3 N	0.2 ESE	0.3 NE	0.1 E	0.4 N	0.2 E	-	0.2 ESE	0.4 NNE	0.4 NNE	0.3 S	0.7 NW	0.7 NW	0.6 NNW	0.6 NNW	0.6 NNW	0.8 NE
Period (s)	11	10	10	10	16	15	10	8	13	14	13	-	10	13	13	9	5	6	6	6	6	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.5 E	0.9 ENE	0.6 E	-	-	1.1 NE	1.1 NE	1.2 NE	-	1.2 NE	0.9 NNE	1.4 NE	-	0.5 N	1.7 NE	-	0.4 SE	0.8 SSE	1.1 SSE	-	1.2 SSE
Period (s)	-	5	5	5	-	-	7	7	6	-	6	6	6	-	5	6	-	9	4	6	-	8

	Thursday 12																Friday 13
	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM
Best forecast wave conditions in East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Whangaparaoa East Cape	Maraenui East Cape	Loisell's East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Waiapu River East Cape	Loisell's East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape
Rating	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.3 N	0.5 ESE	0.4 N	0.4 N	0.4 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 E	0.4 N	0.4 N	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.5 S	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	1.1 NE	0.5 N
Period(s) (?)	17	10	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	10	16	16	10	10	10	9	15	15	15	14	7	14
Energy(?)	92	126	180	180	124	169	158	153	153	86	116	149	72	65	66	120	199	195	195	211	224	211
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	glass	cross	cross	on	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)									3:27PM 1.41													4:12AM 1.84
Low Tide / height (m)		8:47AM 0.41	9:32AM 0.80												9:20PM 0.38
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	17	19	20	21	23	24	24	24	24	21	22	21	20	20	20	19	20	20	20	20	19	20
Chill °C (?)	17	19	20	21	23	24	24	24	24	21	22	21	20	20	20	19	20	20	20	20	19	20
Sunrise	6:33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.4 NE	0.5 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.4 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 E	0.5 NNE	0.4 N	0.5 S	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.5 S	0.6 NNE	0.6 NNE	0.6 NNE	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N
Period (s)	9	10	10	10	16	16	16	16	16	10	6	16	9	5	5	9	6	6	6	14	15	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 N	0.5 S	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.3 N	0.3 N	0.3 NNW	0.3 NNW	0.3 NNW	0.3 N	0.4 N	0.3 N	0.4 ESE	0.4 NNE	0.4 NNE	0.4 ESE	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.4 SE	0.2 ESE	0.4 SE
Period (s)	11	10	8	8	12	12	12	12	12	16	16	12	10	6	6	10	15	15	15	10	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.3 NNE	0.3 NNE	0.9 ENE	1.3 ENE	1.3 ENE	0.6 E	0.7 E	0.9 NNE	0.7 ENE	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.8 ENE	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.7 E	1.1 NE	1.1 NE	1.1 NE
Period (s)	-	-	4	4	7	7	4	5	5	4	5	5	4	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	7	5