South Island New Zealand Surf

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

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South Island New Zealand Wavefinder

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	Sat	Sunday 09			Monday 10			Tuesday 11			Wednesday 12			Thursday 13			Friday 14			Saturday 15
	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 South Island New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Long Point Catlins	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Wavetraps West Coast South Island	Farewell Spit Nelson - West Coast	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Banks Peninsula - Magnet Bay Canterbury	All Day Bay Otago	Tora Point Wairarapa	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Woodpecker Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island
Rating	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	3	2	4	4	3	3	3	3	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.5 WSW	2.3 SW	1.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	3.0 NE	2.5 NNW	3.0 NW	3.0 WNW	3.0 W	1.6 WSW	0.3 SSW	1.9 ENE	1.6 ENE	0.8 WSW	1.6 WSW	2.0 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.4 ENE	2.4 NE	2.5 W	2.4 W	2.5 W
Period(s) (?)	13	13	13	12	7	9	10	13	10	12	12	7	7	12	12	8	9	9	9	12	12	13
Energy(?)	2417	1904	713	864	1403	1138	1739	2621	1539	635	55	359	248	231	796	953	880	365	967	2771	1901	2351
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	off	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	on	cross- on	off	cross	cross- off	cross	on	off
High Tide / height (m)		6:02AM 2.10	3:36PM 2.17		4:19AM 2.10	4:36PM 2.05	7:29PM 1.86	5:23AM 1.97	5:42PM 1.94		6:32AM 1.87			8:57AM 2.17		7:10PM 1.77	7:34AM 1.78		7:38PM 2.86	8:07AM 2.80		7:42PM 2.01
Low Tide / height (m)	11:44PM 0.06	12:24PM 0.20		9:59PM 0.12	10:29AM 0.39		1:52AM 0.20	11:33AM 0.49		10:26PM 0.50	12:43PM 0.55	1:51PM 0.52	1:19AM 0.41			1:30AM 0.67		1:46PM 0.67	1:54AM 1.20		2:19PM 1.23	2:18AM 0.58
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	clear	light rain	heavy rain	risk thund- der	mod. rain	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	5	-	-	1	25	7	8	-	-	-	-	-	15	1	-	-	2	-	5	2	-	-
High °C	9	13	15	13	14	15	14	15	15	10	13	13	14	16	13	10	14	17	10	12	13	11
Low °C	9	10	15	12	14	15	14	15	15	8	12	12	14	15	13	9	9	13	9	12	13	8
Chill °C (?)	8	12	14	12	11	14	13	14	13	9	11	10	13	16	11	8	13	15	7	10	12	11
Sunrise	-	6:05	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:07	-	-	5:56	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:00	-	-	6:03	-	-
Sunset	-	-	8:24	-	-	8:40	-	-	8:27	-	-	8:39	-	-	8:57	-	-	8:30	-	-	8:35	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 WSW	2.3 SW	1.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.2 NW	0.5 WSW	3.0 NW	0.1 N	3.0 W	1.6 WSW	0.5 S	0.2 S	0.4 SSE	0.8 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.1 SW	1.7 ENE	1.4 ENE	0.2 SSW	2.5 W	2.4 W	2.5 W
Period (s)	13	13	13	12	9	12	10	11	10	12	7	7	6	12	12	13	9	9	13	12	12	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.1 N	-	1.0 WSW	-	0.5 WSW	0.1 N	0.1 N	-	0.3 SSW	0.1 S	0.3 SSW	0.6 WNW	0.1 SE	0.1 S	1.1 SW	0.2 SSW	0.4 SW	2.0 NNW	1.6 NNW	1.0 NNW
Period (s)	-	-	9	-	12	-	12	12	13	-	12	13	7	9	8	9	13	13	13	9	9	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 NE	-	0.2 NNW	3.0 NE	2.5 NNW	-	3.0 WNW	-	0.4 E	1.3 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.6 ENE	-	-	2.0 ENE	0.5 W	1.0 N	2.4 NE	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	7	-	8	7	9	-	13	-	3	5	7	7	-	-	8	3	5	9	-	-	-

	Sat	Sunday 09								Monday 10								Tuesday 11
	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Long Point Catlins	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Wavetraps West Coast South Island	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu
Rating	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.2 SW	2.1 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.6 SW	1.4 WSW	0.9 WSW	2.2 NW	2.4 NNE	2.5 NNW	2.5 NNW	3.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	3.5 W	1.9 W
Period(s) (?)	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	12	12	12	12	9	7	9	9	10	10	11	11
Energy(?)	3017	2653	2221	2036	1891	1700	1632	1320	1039	613	722	1185	509	226	1493	1304	1143	1158	2055	2723	2859	1381
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)			3:20AM 2.23									5:30AM 2.25			3:51PM 1.98				3:58AM 3.03
Low Tide / height (m)		11:44PM 0.06			9:30AM 0.27				9:59PM 0.12					12:03PM 0.54				10:02PM 0.39
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	light rain	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	1	-	1	1	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	4	5	6	3	2	1	-	-
Temp. °C	9	8	9	9	11	15	13	13	12	13	12	13	15	18	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	18
Chill °C (?)	7	8	8	7	9	14	11	12	11	12	10	12	15	18	13	13	13	14	14	14	15	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:43	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.2 SW	2.1 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.6 SW	1.4 WSW	0.9 WSW	2.2 NW	1.6 NW	2.5 NNW	2.5 NNW	0.6 WNW	3.0 WNW	3.5 W	1.0 WSW
Period (s)	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	12	12	12	12	9	9	9	9	14	10	11	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 NE	0.2 ENE	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 WNW	0.1 NW	0.1 N	-	1.2 E	0.4 NW	0.1 SE	1.0 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.5 WSW	-	1.7 W	-	0.7 SW
Period (s)	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	9	-	7	9	7	12	12	11	11	-	12	-	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.9 ENE	0.6 ESE	-	-	0.3 N	1.6 ENE	0.2 NNE	-	2.1 NE	2.4 NNE	-	-	3.0 WNW	-	-	1.9 W
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	-	-	8	7	3	-	7	7	-	-	10	-	-	11

	Saturday 08				Sunday 09
	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Long Point Catlins	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Wavetraps West Coast South Island	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu
Rating	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.5 SW	2.5 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.6 WSW	2.5 WSW	-	2.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.2 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	0.4 SW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	13	13	13	13	14	13	13	13	13	-	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Energy(?)	3232	3232	2887	2844	2667	2417	2534	2221	2221	786	2036	0	2036	950	1651	1651	469	427	590	590	596	56
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross	on	on	cross- on	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)									3:20AM 2.23											2:17PM 3.31
Low Tide / height (m)			9:02PM 0.00
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	9	9	9	9	8	9	8	9	9	12	9	7	10	10	13	13	14	14	16	16	16	18
Chill °C (?)	7	7	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	11	7	7	9	9	12	12	13	13	16	16	16	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	8:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.5 SW	2.5 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.6 WSW	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.2 WSW	1.1 W	1.0 W	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	0.4 SW
Period (s)	14	14	13	13	13	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	9	9	13	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	-	-	-	-	0.2 ENE	-	-	0.1 N	-	0.8 WNW	-	0.1 S	0.2 N	0.2 N	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.1 N	0.1 N	0.1 N	0.2 WSW
Period (s)	9	8	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	10	-	9	-	14	10	10	13	13	10	10	10	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.0 W
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6

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