Northland Surf

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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Please enable JavaScript to access the following map views:All map types that you can enable here: Northland Colour Base Map, Wave Height, Wave Energy, Northland Swell 1 Energy, Swell 2 Energy, Windwave Energy, Northland Precipitation, Wind, Temperature, Northland Cloud Cover.Map overlays available for display: Northland Pressure, Wind.Symbols shown on the map: Northland Surf Breaks, Tide Forecasts, Cities, Northland Ski Resorts, Live Wave Buoys, Live Webcams, Northland Wind Now, Temperature Now, Weather Now, Northland Swell at breaks, Rating at breaks.

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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	Sat	Sun				Mon		Tuesday 19			Wednesday 20			Thursday 21			Friday 22			Saturday 23
	Night	AM	PM	Night	PM	PM	AM	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Northland	Ruakaka Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Bland Bay Northland	Forestry Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Elliot Bay Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Tauranga Bay Northland	Okiwi - Whangapoua Estuary Great Barrier Island	Tauranga Bay Northland	Shipwreck Bay-Blue House Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	The Bluff-North Side Northland	Waipapakauri Beach Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	The Box Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca
Rating	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	0	2	0	5	4	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	6
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	4.5 NE	2.5 NNE	1.8 NNE	1.7 NNE	0.9 SW	1.4 NE	1.1 SW	1.2 NW	0.7 NE	0.4 ENE	4.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.3 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.4 SW	2.2 SW	2.2 SW	2.1 SW	3.0 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	10	10	9	13	10	16	7	9	9	13	13	12	12	15	15	16	16	16	15	15	19
Energy(?)	3609	1510	1081	762	512	527	694	259	168	35	8226	5284	2888	2693	3416	2845	3020	2868	2354	2208	1766	5710
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross	off	off	glass	off	on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	on
High Tide / height (m)	1:42AM 2.42		2:26PM 2.56	2:08AM 2.50		3:05PM 1.85	2:46AM 1.97		4:04PM 2.12		3:51AM 1.94	4:35PM 2.04		4:55AM 1.94				8:19PM 0.93	7:12PM 2.11		9:03PM 0.98	9:18AM 1.44
Low Tide / height (m)		7:58AM 0.56		7:55PM 0.81	8:25AM 0.67		8:49PM 0.46	9:16AM 0.30		10:44PM 0.67	10:21AM 0.31		11:00PM 0.45	11:22AM 0.29	12:59AM 0.36	12:00AM 0.40	2:42PM 0.30	1:54AM 0.32	1:54AM 0.50	3:22PM 0.28	2:43AM 0.31
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	29	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
High °C	15	16	16	13	16	16	15	12	11	10	12	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	11	13	14	16
Low °C	13	15	14	10	16	14	15	11	10	10	12	12	11	11	12	11	11	13	11	11	12	15
Chill °C (?)	13	15	15	11	16	14	15	9	7	6	9	11	11	12	11	10	12	12	10	11	12	16
Sunrise	-	7:01	-	-	-	-	7:00	7:01	-	-	7:03	-	-	7:01	-	-	7:00	-	-	6:56	-	6:56
Sunset	-	-	5:52	-	6:28	5:52	-	-	5:47	-	-	5:59	-	-	6:00	-	-	6:00	-	-	5:57	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	1.3 E	1.8 NNE	1.7 NNE	0.9 SW	1.4 NE	1.1 SW	0.6 NE	0.7 NE	0.4 ENE	4.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.3 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.4 SW	2.2 SW	2.2 SW	2.1 SW	3.0 SW
Period (s)	-	8	10	9	13	10	16	9	9	9	13	13	12	12	15	15	16	16	16	15	15	19
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	1.2 E	1.0 E	0.9 SW	0.9 NNE	0.5 SW	0.6 ENE	0.7 NE	0.1 E	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	0.4 SW	1.6 SW	0.9 SW	1.1 S	-	-	-	-	0.3 S	1.3 SW
Period (s)	-	-	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	10	24	23	21	16	18	6	-	-	-	-	6	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	4.5 NE	2.5 NNE	-	0.6 WSW	-	1.4 NW	-	1.2 NW	2.3 WNW	1.3 WNW	2.5 S	2.0 S	1.1 S	-	1.7 SSE	-	0.8 S	0.7 SSE	-	-	0.5 E	-
Period (s)	10	10	-	4	-	7	-	7	6	8	9	10	9	-	7	-	6	5	-	-	3	-

	Sat	Sunday 17								Monday 18					Sun	Monday 18			Tue	Monday 18
	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	11PM	6PM	5AM	8AM	3AM	2PM	5PM	8PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Northland	Parengarenga Harbour Bar Northland	Fairway Reef Northland	Fairway Reef Northland	Ruakaka Northland	Ruakaka Northland	Great Exhibition Bay Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Forestry Northland	Bland Bay Northland	Bland Bay Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Forestry Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Forestry Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Elliot Bay Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Las Urracas Tarapaca
Rating	8	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	4.5 NE	3.5 NNE	3.5 NE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.3 NE	2.2 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.7 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.3 NNE	1.7 NE	1.7 NNE	0.6 SW	1.3 NE	0.8 SW	1.1 SW	0.9 ENE	1.3 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	18	10	16	16	10	16	16	15
Energy(?)	7884	3069	2037	2139	1604	1396	1030	874	910	735	578	511	535	532	539	501	556	632	206	835	661	546
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	off	glass	glass	off	glass	glass	glass
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	low	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	low	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)			1:54AM 2.62				1:23PM 2.07				1:43AM 2.03						4:47AM 1.27					5:08PM 0.80
Low Tide / height (m)	7:20PM 0.49				7:26AM 0.61				8:32PM 0.57				8:13AM 0.27		9:33PM 0.42					11:55AM 0.48
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	mod. rain	light rain	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	rain shwrs	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	8	2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	14	15	14	13	15	16	15	14	14	14	13	11	13	15	15	13	15	15	12	16	16	14
Chill °C (?)	13	14	13	12	14	15	14	12	12	12	12	10	12	14	15	11	15	15	10	16	16	14
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:00	-	-	-	-	7:00	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:28	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	4.0 NE	3.5 NNE	3.5 NE	3.0 NNE	1.4 E	2.3 NE	2.2 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.7 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.3 NNE	1.7 NE	1.7 NNE	0.8 SSW	1.3 NE	0.8 SW	1.1 SW	0.9 ENE	1.3 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW
Period (s)	10	10	10	10	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	10	16	16	10	16	16	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	1.7 E	-	1.6 E	-	1.2 NE	1.1 E	1.2 NE	1.1 NE	1.0 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.1 ENE	-	-	0.7 SW	0.7 N	0.7 SW	0.6 WSW	0.7 NNE	0.2 WNW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW
Period (s)	-	9	-	8	-	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	-	-	9	7	13	9	9	15	9	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	4.5 NE	-	-	-	2.5 NNE	-	-	0.6 W	0.6 WSW	0.8 NW	0.5 W	0.4 WNW	0.8 NW	1.1 NNW	-	0.8 W	-	-	1.1 NW	-	-	-
Period (s)	10	-	-	-	10	-	-	3	3	7	3	3	4	5	-	4	-	-	7	-	-	-

	Saturday 16	Sunday 17	Sat	Sun	Sat	Sun	Sat	Sun
	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	5PM	10AM	7PM	8PM	1PM	10PM	11PM	0AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Northland	Parengarenga Harbour Bar Northland	Fairway Reef Northland	Fairway Reef Northland	Ruakaka Northland	Ruakaka Northland	Great Exhibition Bay Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Forestry Northland	Bland Bay Northland	Bland Bay Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Black Swamp Northland	Forestry Northland	Mangawhai Heads Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Forestry Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Elliot Bay Northland	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Las Urracas Tarapaca	Las Urracas Tarapaca
Rating	8	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	4.5 NE	5.0 NE	5.5 NE	4.0 NE	4.5 NE	3.5 NE	4.0 NE	3.5 NNE	4.0 NE	4.0 NE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	1.4 SW	2.5 NNE	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	2.2 NNE	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	1.4 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	10	11	9	9	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	10	13	13	10	12	12	12
Energy(?)	3978	5372	6585	2731	3231	2304	2791	3078	3476	3407	2291	2135	1849	1675	715	1510	665	645	1363	609	600	600
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	on	cross	cross	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	on	cross- on	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	glass
High Tide / height (m)							12:44AM 2.11
Low Tide / height (m)		7:29PM 0.69												7:15AM 0.21
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	clear	mod. rain	light rain	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	4	7	4	3	3	-	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	14	14	15	13	13	14	13	14	15	15	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	14	16	14	13	13
Chill °C (?)	12	11	13	10	10	13	10	12	14	14	13	13	13	13	15	14	14	14	14	14	13	13
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	3.5 NE	-	1.8 E	4.0 NE	4.0 NE	1.6 E	1.6 E	1.5 E	1.4 E	1.4 SW	1.3 E	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	2.2 NNE	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	1.4 SW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	8	10	10	8	8	8	8	13	8	13	13	10	12	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.0 E	1.9 E	-	-	-	-	0.2 WNW	-	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	1.3 E	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	8	-	-	-	-	13	-	13	13	8	13	13	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	4.5 NE	5.0 NE	5.5 NE	4.0 NE	4.5 NE	-	4.0 NE	3.5 NNE	-	-	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	-	2.5 NNE	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	10	10	11	9	9	-	9	10	-	-	10	10	10	10	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-