Northland Surf

Northland Surf Forecast

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

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

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	Tue	Wednesday 03			Thursday 04			Friday 05			Saturday 06			Sunday 07			Monday 08			Tuesday 09
	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 Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Ocean Beach (Whangarei) Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Twilight Beach Northland	Tokerau Beach or Doubtless Bay Northland	Waipu River Northland	Daniels Reef Northland	Great Exhibition Bay Northland	Tapotupoto Bay Northland	Coopers Beach Northland	Tauranga Bay Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	Tauranga Bay Northland	Tauranga Bay Northland	Tauranga Bay Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	The Bluff-North Side Northland
Rating	4	4	3	3	2	2	3	2	1	2	2	2	4	1	0	4	0	0	0	5	5	8
Wave Height (m) & direction	3.0 NNE	2.4 NE	2.0 NE	1.6 NE	1.0 WSW	1.1 NE	1.9 W	2.1 W	3.0 N	2.5 N	1.9 N	1.3 NNW	2.5 WNW	0.9 NW	0.6 NNE	4.5 SSW	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.2 NNE	4.0 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW
Period(s)	11	10	10	10	11	9	10	10	7	8	8	10	10	9	7	11	9	9	8	16	16	17
Energy	2098	1730	807	508	367	215	815	1015	975	864	478	428	1283	186	74	4902	25	21	11	7806	6206	7213
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		8:59AM 1.92		9:48PM 2.44	11:49AM 2.23		12:14AM 2.36	12:00PM 2.15		10:51PM 2.00	11:09AM 1.89		1:17AM 2.13		12:30PM 2.11	2:28AM 3.04		1:18PM 2.10	1:56AM 2.25	3:22AM 3.01	3:57PM 2.85
Low Tide / height (m)		3:12AM 0.46	3:21PM 0.32		5:51AM 0.48	4:03PM 0.35	6:02PM 0.43	6:01AM 0.57	5:05PM 0.50		5:22AM 0.52	5:47PM 0.40	7:07PM 0.73	6:41AM 0.88		8:18PM 1.04	7:12AM 0.77		7:18PM 0.81	9:44AM 0.95		9:18PM 0.59
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	light rain	light rain	heavy rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	risk thund- der	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	5	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	13	13	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	16	16	16	13	19	19	17	19	18	16	16	17	16	15	14	15	15	16	14	16	15	15
Low °C	14	15	14	13	15	18	16	18	16	14	15	16	15	14	13	14	13	14	14	15	14	14
Chill °C	15	15	15	12	19	19	17	18	17	15	14	16	15	13	12	13	14	15	13	15	14	14
Sunrise	-	7:24	-	-	7:28	-	-	7:28	-	-	7:24	-	-	7:28	-	-	7:26	-	-	7:31	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:14	-	-	5:14	-	-	5:22	-	-	5:23	-	-	5:19	-	-	5:19	-	-	5:21	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 NNE	2.4 NE	2.0 NE	1.6 NE	1.0 WSW	1.1 NE	1.9 W	2.1 W	0.2 E	0.2 E	0.2 E	0.7 NE	2.5 WNW	0.9 NW	0.6 NNE	0.4 SW	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.2 NNE	4.0 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW
Period (s)	11	10	10	10	11	9	10	10	10	10	10	8	10	9	7	22	9	9	8	16	16	17
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 N	1.6 ENE	0.2 N	0.3 N	0.6 WNW	0.2 N	0.5 SW	0.7 SW	-	-	-	0.7 NNE	0.6 NE	0.6 NNE	0.5 NW	0.4 NW	0.1 E	-	0.1 E	-	-	-
Period (s)	13	10	12	12	5	12	15	14	-	-	-	7	7	7	8	9	10	-	9	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.5 SW	0.5 WSW	0.4 SW	0.9 NW	0.8 N	-	2.0 N	3.0 N	2.5 N	1.9 N	1.3 NNW	-	0.6 SSW	0.6 S	4.5 SSW	0.4 SW	0.5 SW	0.2 SSW	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	3	3	3	5	4	-	7	7	8	8	10	-	3	3	11	3	3	3	-	-	-

	Tue	Wednesday 03								Thursday 04								Friday 05
	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Northland	Daniels Reef Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Fairway Reef Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Ocean Beach (Whangarei) Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Ngunguru Bar Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Waipapakauri Beach Northland	Twilight Beach Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland
Rating	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	1	2	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NE	2.4 NE	2.2 NE	2.0 NE	1.8 NE	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.3 NNE	1.1 NE	1.5 W	1.8 W	1.9 W	2.0 W	1.9 W	2.1 W	2.3 WNW
Period(s)	11	11	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	11	9	9	8	9	10	10	10	10	9
Energy	1770	2098	1539	1593	1730	1375	807	613	515	508	551	517	367	285	215	460	645	815	862	790	1015	1100
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	on
Tide State	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	low	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)	8:53PM 2.14				8:59AM 1.92					9:48PM 2.44				9:36AM 2.07					12:14AM 2.36
Low Tide / height (m)				3:12AM 0.46				3:21PM 0.32				5:51AM 0.48					6:02PM 0.43			5:56AM 0.52	6:01AM 0.57
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	risk thund- der	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	2
Temp. °C	17	16	15	14	15	16	16	14	13	13	14	13	15	18	19	18	17	16	17	18	19	18
Chill °C	16	16	14	13	14	15	15	13	12	12	13	12	14	18	19	18	17	15	17	18	18	17
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:28	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NE	2.4 NE	2.2 NE	2.0 NE	1.8 NE	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.3 NNE	1.1 NE	1.5 W	1.8 W	1.9 W	2.0 W	1.9 W	2.1 W	2.3 WNW
Period (s)	11	11	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	11	9	9	8	9	10	10	10	10	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.5 N	0.3 N	0.3 N	1.6 ENE	1.4 ENE	0.2 N	0.2 N	0.3 N	0.3 N	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.6 WNW	0.2 N	0.2 N	0.6 SW	0.4 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.4 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW
Period (s)	-	13	13	13	10	10	12	12	12	12	8	8	5	12	12	11	11	15	15	15	14	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	1.3 NW	-	0.5 SW	0.4 SW	0.5 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.3 WSW	0.4 SW	0.6 NW	0.6 NW	0.9 NW	0.9 NNW	0.8 N	-	-	-	-	1.0 NNW	2.0 N	1.6 N
Period (s)	-	-	7	-	3	3	3	3	3	3	6	4	5	4	4	-	-	-	-	5	7	6

	Tuesday 02					Wednesday 03
	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Northland	Whananaki bar Northland	Daniels Reef Northland	Daniels Reef Northland	Ruakaka Northland	Daniels Reef Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Great Exhibition Bay Northland	Great Exhibition Bay Northland	Fairway Reef Northland	Fairway Reef Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland
Rating	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	1	2	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	3.5 NE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.4 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NE	2.5 NE	2.5 NE	2.4 NE	2.4 NE	2.4 NE	2.2 NE	2.2 NE	2.1 NE	2.1 NE	2.0 NE	1.9 NE
Period(s)	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Energy	2539	1841	1770	2453	2004	2098	1565	1220	1539	1538	1623	1593	1408	1835	1730	1667	1480	1375	1305	872	807	747
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)			8:53PM 2.14	9:11PM 2.46											8:59AM 1.92
Low Tide / height (m)										3:47AM 0.87												3:21PM 0.32
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	17	16	17	16	17	16	16	16	15	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16
Chill °C	17	16	16	16	17	16	15	15	14	13	14	13	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 NE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.4 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NE	2.5 NE	2.5 NE	2.4 NE	2.4 NE	2.4 NE	2.2 NE	2.2 NE	2.1 NE	2.1 NE	2.0 NE	1.9 NE
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	1.6 ENE	0.5 N	0.2 N	0.2 N	0.3 N	0.3 N	0.3 N	0.3 N	0.3 N	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.4 ENE	0.2 N	0.2 N	0.2 N
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	10	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	10	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.6 NW	0.8 W	1.3 NW	1.4 NW	-	-	-	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.5 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.6 WSW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	4	7	7	-	-	-	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3