Otago Surf

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

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

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	Friday 23			Saturday 24			Sunday 25			Monday 26			Tuesday 27			Wednesday 28			Thursday 29			Fri
	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 Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Patiti Point Canterbury	Smithfield Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Patiti Point Canterbury	Warrington Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Patiti Point Canterbury	Karitane Point Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Dunedin - St Clair Otago	Otago Peninsula - Allans Beach Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Otago Peninsula - Allans Beach Otago	Otago Peninsula - Pipikaretu Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Dunedin - Kuri Bush Otago	Dunedin - St Clair Otago
Rating	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	4	1	4	4	1	3	2	2	1	2	1	1	2	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.3 ENE	0.5 SSW	1.2 E	1.9 SSW	0.8 ESE	0.9 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.7 ESE	2.5 S	2.5 S	0.6 E	2.0 S	1.7 SSE	1.4 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.5 E	0.4 ESE	0.4 SW	0.9 SSW
Period(s) (?)	11	14	11	7	10	11	12	12	11	12	10	10	11	10	9	9	8	7	11	10	11	6
Energy(?)	1234	139	428	683	202	283	477	457	261	142	2718	1484	86	953	546	415	153	160	117	34	51	102
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	off	on	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross
High Tide / height (m)			7:14PM 1.60	7:42AM 1.65		7:45PM 1.63	8:44AM 2.03		9:27PM 2.06	9:30AM 1.58		10:30PM 2.11	11:37AM 1.67		11:33PM 2.19	11:34AM 2.12		12:03AM 1.77	12:39PM 2.23		1:25AM 2.41
Low Tide / height (m)		1:19PM 0.31	1:36AM 0.27		2:06PM 0.32	2:10AM 0.31		3:07PM 0.62	3:33AM 0.74		4:02PM 0.62		5:04AM 0.33	4:58PM 0.63		5:37AM 0.86	5:56PM 0.64		6:45AM 0.82	6:55PM 0.65		7:42AM 0.74
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	5	1	4	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	13	12	13	14	15	13	15	16	16	13	14	14	14	14	11	13	17	15	15	17	14	13
Low °C	13	12	12	13	15	13	13	15	14	13	13	12	13	13	10	13	16	14	15	15	9	12
Chill °C (?)	12	10	11	13	14	11	15	16	16	11	12	12	12	13	9	12	16	13	15	17	13	11
Sunrise	6:16	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:24	-	-	6:26
Sunset	-	9:22	-	-	9:12	-	-	9:10	-	-	9:19	-	-	9:17	-	-	9:12	-	-	9:13	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.3 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.2 E	1.0 E	0.8 ESE	0.9 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	0.9 SSE	2.3 S	2.4 S	1.2 SE	2.2 S	0.6 E	1.7 SSE	1.4 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.5 E	0.4 SSE	0.4 SW	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	10	11	12	12	11	10	10	10	10	11	9	9	8	7	11	7	11	6
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 SSE	0.5 SSW	0.1 S	0.8 SSE	0.5 SSE	0.7 ESE	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.4 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.8 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.6 E	0.5 SSW	0.5 ESE	0.5 E	0.4 ESE	0.5 E	0.5 SSE	0.4 SSW	0.3 ESE	0.3 ENE
Period (s)	9	14	14	8	7	10	10	9	9	12	12	11	11	14	10	11	11	11	7	12	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	1.2 SSW	0.9 SSE	1.9 SSW	1.4 S	-	-	-	-	3.0 SSW	2.5 S	2.5 S	2.5 S	2.0 S	-	0.3 NNE	0.5 NE	0.5 NE	-	-	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW
Period (s)	4	5	7	7	8	-	-	-	-	10	10	10	10	10	-	2	4	3	-	-	5	6

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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 Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Warrington Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Smithfield Canterbury	Smithfield Canterbury	Patiti Point Canterbury	Otago Peninsula - Long Beach Otago	Smithfield Canterbury	Smithfield Canterbury	Dunedin - St Clair Otago	Jacks Point Canterbury	Lighthouse Reef Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury
Rating	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	0	2	2	2	2	8	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 E	1.9 E	1.9 E	2.2 S	1.9 S	1.9 SSW	1.5 E	1.4 S	1.6 S	3.0 SSW	0.9 SSE	1.0 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	4.0 SSW	1.2 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE
Period(s) (?)	11	11	12	12	12	12	7	8	7	11	8	7	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	11
Energy(?)	1234	1252	1343	1444	988	1072	913	755	683	750	425	431	2482	283	341	452	477	7368	457	345	283	261
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross	off	cross- off	glass	off	off	cross- off	off	off	glass
Tide State(?)	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)					7:14PM 1.60				7:54AM 2.07				9:14PM 1.66				8:44AM 2.03				9:27PM 2.06
Low Tide / height (m)			1:19PM 0.31				1:53AM 0.62				2:17PM 0.63				2:43AM 0.67				3:07PM 0.62
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	2	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	13	13	13	12	11	12	12	13	12	15	15	11	13	13	13	13	12	16	15	16	15
Chill °C (?)	12	11	11	11	10	8	10	11	13	10	14	14	7	12	13	13	12	10	16	15	16	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:20	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	9:19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:10	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 E	1.9 E	1.9 E	1.1 E	1.1 E	1.0 E	1.5 E	0.8 ESE	0.7 ESE	1.2 ESE	0.9 SSE	1.0 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	3.5 S	1.2 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE
Period (s)	11	11	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 SSE	0.3 SSW	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSW	0.2 SSE	0.4 SSW	0.9 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	1.0 ENE	0.5 SSE	0.6 SSE	0.2 E	0.7 ESE	0.6 E	0.5 E	0.5 E	1.0 E	0.5 E	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE
Period (s)	9	15	10	14	10	14	7	7	8	11	7	7	13	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.6 S	1.6 SSW	1.3 SSW	2.2 S	1.9 S	1.9 SSW	1.5 SSW	1.4 S	1.6 S	3.0 SSW	-	-	-	-	4.0 SSW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	4	5	6	6	6	6	7	8	7	13	8	7	11	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-

	Friday 23																Saturday 24
	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 Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Karitane Point Otago	Warrington Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Smithfield Canterbury	Smithfield Canterbury	Patiti Point Canterbury	Otago Peninsula - Long Beach Otago	Smithfield Canterbury	Smithfield Canterbury	Dunedin - St Clair Otago	Jacks Point Canterbury	Lighthouse Reef Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury	Jacks Point Canterbury
Rating	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	0	2	2	2	2	8	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.4 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	1.9 ENE	0.5 SSW	1.5 ESE	1.5 ESE	1.6 ESE	2.0 E	1.3 E	1.3 E	2.0 E	1.3 E	1.3 E	1.2 E	1.2 E	1.9 E	1.2 E	1.1 E	1.1 E	1.1 E
Period(s) (?)	11	11	11	11	11	15	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	11	11
Energy(?)	1244	1189	1234	1234	911	153	610	610	705	1098	531	531	1315	489	482	420	431	1072	424	394	394	373
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)
Low Tide / height (m)						12:59PM 0.31	1:30PM 0.63												1:53AM 0.62
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	1	1	-	2	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	13	14	13	13	13	12	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	13	11	12	12	12	12
Chill °C (?)	11	13	12	11	12	10	12	12	12	11	11	11	9	11	11	11	11	8	10	10	10	10
Sunrise	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.4 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.5 ESE	1.5 ESE	1.6 ESE	2.0 E	1.3 E	1.3 E	2.0 E	1.3 E	1.3 E	1.2 E	1.2 E	1.9 E	1.2 E	1.1 E	1.1 E	1.1 E
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.5 SSW	0.2 S	0.2 S	-	0.2 SSE	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.4 SSW	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.1 S	0.4 SSW	0.1 S	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE
Period (s)	9	9	9	9	9	15	15	15	-	10	15	15	14	7	7	7	14	14	14	7	7	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.9 SSW	-	-	0.1 S	1.4 SSW	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE	1.4 SSW	-	1.6 S	1.8 S	0.9 SSE	1.3 SSW	0.9 SSE	-	2.2 S	2.1 S
Period (s)	9	4	4	5	5	5	-	-	15	6	6	6	6	-	7	7	7	6	7	-	7	7