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

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Wed	Thursday 08			Friday 09			Saturday 10			Sunday 11			Monday 12			Tuesday 13			Wednesday 14
	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	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Woodpecker Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Meatworks Kaikoura and Marlborough	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smithfield Canterbury	Shag Beach Otago	Lyall Bay Wellington	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Papatowai Catlins	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Bluecliffs Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins
Rating	3	4	3	4	2	4	4	4	2	1	0	3	5	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 SW	1.4 WSW	1.3 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.3 WSW	3.0 WNW	0.6 SW	0.3 SSW	3.5 WNW	0.3 ENE	2.3 SSW	2.1 S	3.0 SSW	3.0 SW	1.7 SSW	0.9 SW	2.2 W	2.1 SW	2.2 SW	1.5 SSW
Period(s) (?)	10	12	14	13	13	16	15	8	14	7	8	7	12	14	12	10	10	10	10	12	14	14
Energy(?)	366	784	1196	810	630	3330	1387	1483	234	14	1207	15	1398	1781	2365	1837	707	190	1075	1270	1850	908
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross	on	on	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross- off	on	glass	off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	glass	off	off
High Tide / height (m)			3:08PM 2.79		5:17AM 1.93	5:34PM 1.90		6:05AM 1.83		9:23PM 1.64	9:50AM 1.62			6:15AM 2.49	6:45PM 2.13		8:46AM 1.63		9:29PM 1.65	9:48AM 1.69		1:07AM 1.67
Low Tide / height (m)	11:46PM 0.32	8:57AM 0.30		12:36AM 0.45	11:27AM 0.42		11:53PM 0.40	12:19PM 0.52	3:12PM 0.40	3:38AM 0.45		4:06PM 0.46	12:41AM 0.75	12:32PM 1.10		1:05AM 1.40		3:16PM 0.66	3:43AM 0.72		3:15PM 0.81
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	heavy rain	light rain	some clouds	heavy rain	heavy rain	mod. rain	some clouds	heavy rain	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	1	-	2	55	3	-	43	36	7	-	13	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	7	1
High °C	15	19	16	16	18	15	13	17	18	24	18	22	11	17	18	13	21	18	14	16	13	11
Low °C	13	15	15	14	17	15	12	15	18	20	18	17	10	16	18	10	18	17	13	13	11	9
Chill °C (?)	14	19	16	16	18	13	12	16	18	24	17	22	7	17	18	11	21	18	12	16	13	9
Sunrise	-	6:07	-	-	6:09	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:09	-	-	6:01	-	-	5:58	-	-	6:05	-	-
Sunset	-	-	9:36	-	-	9:42	-	-	9:42	-	-	9:20	-	-	8:53	-	-	9:40	-	-	9:34	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 SW	1.4 WSW	1.3 WSW	-	1.4 NW	0.8 WSW	0.6 SW	0.3 NE	-	0.3 ENE	0.5 NE	2.1 S	3.0 SSW	0.9 SSE	1.7 SSW	0.9 SW	0.1 SW	2.1 SW	2.2 SW	1.5 SSW
Period (s)	10	12	14	13	13	-	8	14	14	6	-	7	9	14	12	10	10	10	19	12	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.3 ENE	0.4 N	0.3 WSW	-	1.3 WSW	0.2 N	0.6 SW	0.3 SSW	-	0.1 S	-	0.4 NW	0.2 ENE	-	0.4 SSE	0.4 WSW	-	0.3 SE	0.3 SE	0.1 SE
Period (s)	-	-	8	12	18	-	15	13	10	7	-	13	-	7	13	-	13	11	-	9	9	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.9 W	-	0.4 NE	1.1 NW	0.5 NW	2.5 WSW	-	3.0 WNW	-	-	3.5 WNW	1.2 WNW	2.3 SSW	-	-	3.0 SW	-	0.4 WSW	2.2 W	-	-	0.4 ENE
Period (s)	5	-	3	6	5	16	-	8	-	-	8	4	12	-	-	10	-	3	10	-	-	3

	Wed	Thursday 08								Friday 09								Saturday 10
	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	Colac Bay Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Woodpecker Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Papatowai Catlins
Rating	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 W	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	2.1 WSW	2.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.6 W	2.5 W	1.3 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.0 WSW	3.5 WNW	1.2 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	11	11	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	13	13	8	8	15	14	14	9	14
Energy(?)	351	244	229	748	784	907	1326	1416	1051	930	1083	2304	1618	586	758	586	1164	1258	1992	1667	2707	825
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	glass	off
Tide State(?)	-	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)			2:49AM 2.71	5:51AM 2.37				4:44PM 2.04	7:30PM 1.82							4:07PM 3.01				6:05AM 1.83
Low Tide / height (m)						10:37AM 0.32					1:49AM 0.25							11:53PM 0.40
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	rain shwrs	light rain	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	heavy rain	heavy rain	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	1	-	2	2	-	-	-	1	6	14	24	9
Temp. °C	15	15	15	14	15	19	16	18	19	17	15	14	16	17	19	18	15	12	11	12	15	16
Chill °C (?)	14	14	14	13	15	19	16	18	19	16	14	12	16	17	19	18	15	11	9	11	15	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:09	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:14	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.1 S	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.1 NW	0.9 WSW	1.7 W	0.6 WSW	0.9 SW	2.0 W	2.2 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.2 SW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	7	13	7	12	8	8	14	14	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	0.4 NNW	0.4 NNW	0.5 WSW	-	-	0.9 SW	0.1 SW	0.7 NE	0.4 ENE	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 WSW	0.7 NW	1.0 WSW	0.5 W	0.8 SW	1.3 WSW	-	-	0.4 NNE	1.1 SW
Period (s)	8	13	13	13	-	-	15	20	5	5	18	18	18	6	13	17	15	15	-	-	13	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.1 NE	0.5 WNW	-	2.1 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.2 W	-	1.6 W	2.5 W	-	-	-	3.5 WNW	-
Period (s)	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	3	-	12	12	7	-	8	8	-	-	-	9	-

	Wednesday 07				Thursday 08
	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	Colac Bay Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Woodpecker Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Papatowai Catlins
Rating	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 W	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.3 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.6 SSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.7 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	10	11	11	10	15	12	12	12	12	14
Energy(?)	359	213	213	338	375	366	423	477	243	243	426	426	475	227	223	203	298	907	954	1317	634	1168
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross	cross- on	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- on	cross
High Tide / height (m)																					3:55PM 1.98
Low Tide / height (m)		8:41PM 0.16													9:04AM 0.31
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-
High °C	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	17	18	18	20	19	16	16	14	15
Chill °C (?)	15	14	15	14	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	15	17	18	18	20	19	16	16	14	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	9:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.1 S	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.3 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 SW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.7 SW
Period (s)	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	10	11	11	10	12	12	12	12	12	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	0.4 NNW	0.4 NNW	-	-	-	-	0.1 NW	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.6 N	0.4 NNW	0.4 N	0.4 NNW	0.6 SSW	-	-	0.9 SW	0.5 N	0.3 ENE
Period (s)	8	13	13	-	-	-	-	7	9	9	9	9	13	13	13	13	15	-	-	15	12	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 W	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.9 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 NE
Period (s)	10	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4

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