Nias Surf

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

Nias Surf Forecast

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

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	Thursday 26			Friday 27			Saturday 28			Sunday 29			Monday 30			Tuesday 31			Wednesday 01			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 Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Asu Nias	Bawa Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Asu Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Asu Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Bawa Nias
Rating	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.0 S	0.7 SW	0.6 SSW	1.6 SW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.6 SW	0.8 SW	0.7 SW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	13	14	14	12	13	14	13	6	13	12	12	12	16	16	15	15	14	14	13	13
Energy(?)	312	341	308	540	439	255	400	338	233	497	419	305	224	213	381	433	344	479	439	412	307	316
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross	cross	glass	cross- on	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- on	glass	cross	glass	cross- off	cross- on	glass	glass	on	glass	cross- off	cross- on	glass	glass
High Tide / height (m)	11:33AM 0.62		12:08AM 0.35		1:21PM 0.65	2:48AM 0.37		2:59PM 0.62		4:01AM 0.44	3:59PM 0.68		4:45AM 0.57	4:46PM 0.70		5:17AM 0.62	5:23PM 0.71		5:54AM 0.77	6:03PM 0.77		6:24AM 0.83
Low Tide / height (m)			7:31PM 0.27	4:50AM 0.24		9:35PM 0.22	7:46AM 0.28		10:18PM 0.15	9:32AM 0.22		10:50PM 0.12	10:36AM 0.18		11:17PM 0.08	11:16AM 0.12		11:40PM 0.06	12:00PM 0.10		12:08AM 0.06	12:33PM 0.07
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	mod. rain	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	some clouds	risk thund- der	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	2	1	1	1	-	3	1	2	35	10	26	1	-	-	6	1	-	4	-	-	-	-
High °C	28	29	28	28	29	29	28	28	28	24	24	26	27	28	27	28	28	28	27	28	28	28
Low °C	28	28	27	28	29	27	28	28	23	24	24	25	26	27	27	27	28	27	27	27	27	27
Chill °C (?)	28	29	28	28	29	29	28	28	28	24	24	26	27	28	27	28	28	28	27	28	28	28
Sunrise	6:31	-	-	6:31	-	-	6:30	-	-	6:31	-	-	6:30	-	-	6:31	-	-	6:31	-	-	6:30
Sunset	-	6:37	-	-	6:39	-	-	6:37	-	-	6:38	-	-	6:38	-	-	6:37	-	-	6:37	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.0 S	0.8 S	0.6 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.1 WSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSE	0.8 SW	0.7 SW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW
Period (s)	12	12	13	14	14	12	13	10	10	13	13	7	12	12	11	16	15	15	14	14	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 SW	0.5 SW	0.6 S	0.2 S	0.1 W	0.6 S	0.3 SSW	0.7 SW	0.6 SSW	0.7 S	0.7 S	0.7 SSW	0.6 WSW	0.6 S	0.6 SW	0.7 SSE	0.6 S	0.7 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.6 S
Period (s)	16	16	9	13	16	9	16	14	13	10	10	12	7	10	16	11	10	10	10	10	9	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.6 SW	1.3 SW	-	0.3 NE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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	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 Nias	Asu Nias	Lagundri-The Machine Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Asu Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias
Rating	2	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 S	1.1 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 S	0.7 SSW	1.0 S	0.7 SW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SW	0.7 SSW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	12	12	13	13	11	11	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	10	13	13	14	14	14	14
Energy(?)	278	327	341	321	380	378	281	312	540	397	342	336	274	255	235	295	335	439	338	388	337	292
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)		11:32AM 0.65				12:09AM 0.33					1:21PM 0.61				2:55AM 0.34				3:00PM 0.68
Low Tide / height (m)					7:31PM 0.27			4:49AM 0.22					9:35PM 0.22				7:49AM 0.25					10:27PM 0.18
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy	risk thund- der
Rain (mm)	1	1	1	1	-	1	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	2	1	1	-	6
Temp. °C	28	28	29	28	27	27	27	28	28	28	29	29	28	28	28	27	28	28	28	28	27	26
Chill °C (?)	28	28	29	28	27	27	27	28	28	28	29	29	28	28	28	27	28	28	28	28	27	26
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	6:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 S	1.1 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 S	0.7 S	1.0 S	0.8 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 S
Period (s)	12	12	12	12	13	13	11	11	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	10	10	13	10	14	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.4 SW	0.1 SW	0.1 W	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.2 S	0.7 S	0.7 S	0.7 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.7 SW	0.8 S	0.7 SW	0.7 SSW
Period (s)	16	16	16	16	16	13	14	14	13	9	8	9	9	9	9	13	13	16	14	10	14	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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	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 Nias	Asu Nias	Lagundri-The Machine Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Asu Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Bawa Nias	Hiliduha Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Asu Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias	Hilisataro Nias
Rating	2	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 S	0.8 S
Period(s) (?)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	13	11	11	11
Energy(?)	214	309	312	293	324	327	323	344	377	377	267	267	287	345	319	315	250	295	378	281	281	300
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	off	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)					11:36AM 0.69													12:09AM 0.30
Low Tide / height (m)													7:33PM 0.26									4:50AM 0.24
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
High °C	27	27	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	27	27	27	27
Chill °C (?)	27	27	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	27	27	27	27
Sunrise	6:33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 S	0.8 S
Period (s)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	13	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 S	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.3 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.1 W	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	8	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	8	8	16	16	16	16	13	13	13	14	14	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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