New Zealand Surf

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

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New Zealand Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Saturday 18			Sunday 19			Monday 20			Tuesday 21			Wednesday 22			Thursday 23			Friday 24			Sat
	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 New Zealand	Colac Bay Southland	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Oakura Beach Taranaki	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Back Beach Taranaki	Karekare Auckland	Tora Point Wairarapa	Murdering Bay Otago	Potato Point Otago	Te Awanga Hawkes Bay	Murdering Bay Otago	Otago Peninsula - Long Beach Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Weld Road Taranaki	Nicks Point Southland	Beatons Southland	Nicks Point Southland
Rating	4	5	7	5	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.1 W	3.0 W	4.0 W	3.0 W	2.5 WSW	3.0 W	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	0.9 SSW	2.2 SE	2.5 ESE	1.4 S	3.0 SE	3.0 SE	2.5 SE	3.5 S	3.5 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.2 S	1.0 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.8 WSW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	15	14	14	14	14	14	10	9	9	9	10	10	11	8	11	9	9	13	16	14
Energy(?)	1316	2698	7092	3419	3949	3408	2443	3595	270	715	1020	667	3659	1933	1667	1684	2954	1351	1059	564	1223	1224
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	on	cross- off	off	on	off	off	cross	off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross	cross	off
High Tide / height (m)		12:25PM 2.33	2:06AM 2.58		2:34PM 2.62	12:33AM 2.24		1:09PM 2.12	1:32AM 2.07		1:29PM 3.23	1:53AM 3.18		1:13PM 2.84	1:45AM 2.90		3:08PM 2.65	2:51AM 2.71	3:04AM 2.99	3:19PM 2.35		4:21AM 2.83
Low Tide / height (m)			8:07PM 0.30	6:07AM 0.16		6:22PM 0.08	6:53AM 0.21		7:21PM 0.29	7:45AM 0.31		7:40PM 0.82	7:07AM 0.57		7:33PM 0.43	8:02AM 0.49		8:35PM 0.59	9:26AM 0.99		9:37PM 0.67	10:45AM 0.92
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	heavy rain	rain shwrs	mod. rain	clear	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	3	6	23	6	10	-	11	3	4	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	-
High °C	11	12	10	14	14	12	15	16	14	9	8	13	8	9	9	12	7	11	14	12	10	12
Low °C	9	11	9	12	14	10	13	15	12	8	8	10	8	9	8	11	7	10	11	11	9	10
Chill °C (?)	9	11	8	13	12	11	14	16	13	6	5	11	4	6	6	10	3	8	13	11	9	11
Sunrise	7:28	-	-	7:09	-	-	6:56	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:20	-	-	6:58	-	-	7:00	-	-	7:37
Sunset	-	6:05	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:51	-	-	5:49	-	-	5:40	-	-	5:55	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.1 W	3.0 W	4.0 W	3.0 W	2.5 WSW	3.0 W	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.0 SE	0.1 S	0.2 S	1.4 S	3.0 ESE	0.2 S	2.5 SE	0.5 WSW	0.5 E	0.5 WSW	0.7 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.8 WSW
Period (s)	12	12	15	14	14	14	14	14	6	16	14	9	10	13	11	13	10	16	15	13	16	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 SE	1.5 NNW	-	1.1 N	1.4 WSW	-	0.7 NW	-	0.9 SSW	0.1 S	0.4 SW	1.2 ENE	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.1 S	0.4 SW	0.1 S	0.4 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.6 WSW	1.0 WSW	-
Period (s)	12	8	-	9	16	-	8	-	10	13	14	9	13	13	18	7	18	13	12	18	12	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	1.5 NW	-	0.6 SE	-	-	2.2 SE	2.5 ESE	-	3.0 SE	3.0 SE	-	3.5 S	3.5 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.2 S	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	8	-	3	-	-	9	9	-	10	10	-	8	11	9	9	-	-	-

	Saturday 18					Sunday 19								Monday 20								Tue
	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Blaketown Wedge West Coast South Island	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Oakura Beach Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Karekare Auckland
Rating	4	4	4	5	5	5	7	7	7	6	5	5	5	6	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.4 W	2.5 W	2.0 W	3.5 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	3.5 W	3.0 W	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.8 W	2.2 W	2.0 W	2.1 W	1.9 W	2.3 W
Period(s) (?)	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13
Energy(?)	2211	2544	1488	4448	3663	4054	6900	6981	6331	5713	3144	3128	3543	5011	4059	3110	1219	1788	1387	1561	1210	1885
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	low	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)			1:43PM 2.64			11:49PM 2.26								11:12PM 3.35				11:29AM 3.21
Low Tide / height (m)	6:14AM 0.01			5:48PM 0.14	8:07PM 0.30				6:07AM 0.16			5:57PM 0.49				5:17AM 0.02	6:07AM -0.01			5:37PM 0.01
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	rain shwrs	clear	rain shwrs	clear	light rain	light rain	heavy rain	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	cloudy	rain shwrs	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	light rain	some clouds
Rain (mm)	2	2	-	1	-	2	4	17	1	-	-	-	1	1	-	17	-	5	3	3	1	-
Temp. °C	10	10	12	12	9	10	9	9	11	13	15	13	14	14	13	13	12	15	15	14	13	13
Chill °C (?)	8	8	11	11	8	8	6	7	9	12	14	12	12	13	11	12	11	14	14	13	12	12
Sunrise	7:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:07	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:49	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.4 W	2.5 W	2.0 W	3.5 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	3.5 W	3.0 W	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.8 W	2.2 W	2.0 W	2.1 W	1.9 W	2.3 W
Period (s)	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.0 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.5 W	1.7 NNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.2 N	1.2 N	1.4 NW	1.2 NW	1.1 NW	-	1.0 NNW	-	0.4 S	-	-	0.5 S
Period (s)	14	18	18	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	8	8	8	8	-	8	-	8	-	-	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.3 W	-	-	-	-	0.7 SE	0.9 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 SE	-	-	-	1.1 NW
Period (s)	-	-	13	-	-	-	-	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	7

	Saturday 18																	Sunday 19
	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Blaketown Wedge West Coast South Island	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Oakura Beach Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Karekare Auckland
Rating	4	4	4	5	5	5	7	7	7	6	5	5	5	6	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.1 W	3.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	3.5 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	2.4 W	2.5 W	2.1 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.3 WNW	2.5 W	1.9 WSW	2.0 WSW	2.3 WNW	2.3 WNW	1.9 WSW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	9	13	12	12	9	9	12
Energy(?)	2399	2302	1316	3967	2540	2390	4195	5187	4973	4973	1799	2023	1063	3291	2746	1645	2394	2076	2164	1881	1912	2713
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	off	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross- on	cross	on	on	cross- on	off	on	cross- on	on	on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)						11:25AM 2.30
Low Tide / height (m)	6:14AM 0.01											5:13PM 0.40
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	1	1	1	-	1	1	1	1	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	4	1	5	4	1
High °C	10	10	9	13	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	15	16	16	18	12	15	15	16	16	16
Chill °C (?)	9	8	8	11	9	10	10	12	12	13	13	12	14	15	15	17	11	14	15	14	15	15
Sunrise	-	7:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.1 W	3.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	3.5 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	2.4 W	2.5 W	2.1 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.3 WNW	2.5 W	2.5 NNW	2.3 NNW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.9 WSW
Period (s)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	9	13	9	9	12	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.3 SE	0.5 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.5 NNW	1.5 NNW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.5 NNW	1.3 NNW	0.3 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.2 NNW	1.9 WSW	2.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.2 WSW
Period (s)	14	14	12	20	18	8	8	18	18	18	8	8	19	20	16	12	8	12	12	15	14	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	1.6 NNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	-	-	-	-	2.3 WNW	2.3 WNW	2.5 WNW
Period (s)	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	9	-	-	-	-	9	9	9

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