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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	Wed		Thursday 22			Friday 23			Saturday 24			Sunday 25			Monday 26			Tuesday 27			Wed
	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Dinner Plates Catlins	Beatons Southland	Castlepoint Beach Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Tora Point Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Wavetraps West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Fox River West Coast South Island	Smithfield Canterbury	Airport Rights Wellington	Clarence River Kaikoura and Marlborough	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Clarence River Kaikoura and Marlborough	Dunedin - Cob Cottage Otago	Tora Point Wairarapa	Eddies South Shore Canterbury	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Dee Dees Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Beatons Southland
Rating	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	6	5	7	5	7	6	5	5	5	4	4	3	2	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.4 SSW	0.7 WSW	3.5 ENE	2.5 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	3.0 E	1.3 NNW	4.5 WSW	4.0 W	3.5 SSW	2.4 SSW	3.0 S	4.0 SSW	2.5 S	3.5 S	2.5 S	3.0 S	2.5 SSW	2.0 S	1.5 S	1.3 W
Period(s) (?)	22	20	10	10	11	11	11	11	13	13	11	12	13	11	11	10	11	10	10	10	10	7
Energy(?)	314	484	2633	1205	2103	1563	2241	657	6000	6010	3297	1513	3143	6169	1979	4455	1770	1674	1297	791	471	435
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- on	off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross	off	cross- on	glass
High Tide / height (m)				5:37PM 2.07	2:54AM 1.99		3:57PM 2.04	9:58PM 1.33	10:16AM 1.24		10:39PM 1.25	10:32AM 1.46		11:22PM 1.62	11:37AM 1.40		11:56PM 1.49	12:16PM 1.92		12:42AM 1.92	7:27AM 1.75
Low Tide / height (m)		9:55PM 0.21	8:23AM 0.43		8:45PM 0.40	9:00AM 0.43				1:51PM 0.87		4:20AM 0.20	4:50PM 0.18		5:27AM 0.17	3:56PM 0.32		6:00AM 0.54	6:21PM 0.23			1:45PM 0.62
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	some clouds	mod. rain	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	mod. rain	mod. rain	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	8	-	-	1	10	7	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
High °C	19	15	18	20	17	20	15	13	17	16	13	16	15	11	15	14	14	14	16	14	21	14
Low °C	18	13	18	19	16	20	14	12	15	16	11	15	14	10	14	13	13	13	15	13	18	12
Chill °C (?)	18	15	17	20	16	20	14	12	16	16	11	15	14	8	15	12	14	14	16	13	21	14
Sunrise	-	-	6:07	-	-	6:15	-	-	6:31	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:18	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:20	-
Sunset	9:30	-	-	8:57	-	-	9:02	-	-	9:04	-	-	8:53	-	-	9:19	-	-	8:45	-	-	9:28
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 S	0.7 SW	0.8 S	2.5 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	3.0 E	1.3 NNW	4.5 WSW	4.0 W	1.3 SSE	2.4 SSW	3.0 S	3.5 S	2.5 S	3.0 S	2.5 S	0.6 SSE	2.5 SSW	2.0 S	1.5 S	0.7 WSW
Period (s)	10	11	12	10	11	11	11	11	13	13	11	12	13	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 SW	0.7 WSW	0.1 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.7 WSW	0.7 N	0.5 NNW	0.6 ESE	0.2 ESE	0.6 E	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.6 ESE	0.8 E	0.4 E	0.5 E	0.1 SE	0.4 ESE	0.4 WSW
Period (s)	12	20	22	10	10	10	9	14	11	12	10	9	9	9	12	12	12	11	11	11	10	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.1 E	-	3.5 ENE	-	0.7 WSW	-	0.6 S	0.9 WSW	-	-	3.5 SSW	0.5 NNW	-	4.0 SSW	-	3.5 S	-	3.0 S	-	-	0.4 NE	1.3 W
Period (s)	7	-	10	-	4	-	9	6	-	-	11	3	-	11	-	10	-	10	-	-	3	7

	Wednesday 21			Thursday 22								Friday 23								Saturday 24
	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Dinner Plates Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Blackhead Wairarapa	Castlepoint Beach Wairarapa	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Christmas Bay Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Karitane Point Otago	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Kahutara Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	3	4	3	3	4	4	3	9	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	6
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 S	2.4 ENE	1.4 NNE	0.8 SSW	0.8 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	5.0 ENE	3.5 ENE	2.0 ENE	3.0 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.4 E	2.2 ENE	2.2 E	2.3 ESE	2.4 E	1.7 ENE	4.0 W	4.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	8	10	20	20	20	18	11	11	8	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	13	12
Energy(?)	561	1193	844	505	1007	1035	777	8823	3099	1377	2225	1885	1795	1567	1378	1194	1173	1184	1639	1563	4878	5582
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	glass	off	off	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	low	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)					2:17AM 2.01					6:24PM 2.31	9:03PM 1.13				9:09AM 1.43				8:56PM 1.76		3:34AM 1.94
Low Tide / height (m)	2:16PM 0.50		8:06PM 0.42	11:10PM 0.24			9:13AM 0.32		3:08PM 0.17				2:40AM 0.20				3:16PM 0.21
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	light rain	clear	cloudy	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs	mod. rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	4	-	2	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	4	6	1	6	5	-	-
Temp. °C	17	15	16	14	16	16	14	20	21	15	18	17	16	16	20	13	19	18	13	12	13	12
Chill °C (?)	16	14	16	13	16	16	14	20	21	15	17	17	16	16	20	12	19	18	12	10	12	11
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	6:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31
Sunset	-	9:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:58	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 S	1.8 E	1.4 NNE	1.5 E	1.5 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.0 WSW	4.0 ENE	3.5 ENE	1.6 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.4 E	2.2 ENE	2.2 E	2.3 ESE	2.4 E	1.7 ENE	4.0 W	4.0 WSW
Period (s)	14	8	10	8	10	10	18	11	11	8	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	13	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.8 WSW	0.7 SW	0.8 SSW	0.8 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.8 S	0.7 S	0.9 SSW	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.4 SSE	0.5 S	0.2 S	0.2 SSW	1.6 ESE	0.9 N	0.8 N
Period (s)	-	11	12	20	20	20	11	12	11	16	11	10	10	10	10	9	10	16	15	11	11	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.1 ENE	2.4 ENE	-	1.8 ENE	-	-	-	5.0 ENE	-	2.0 ENE	0.6 WSW	-	-	0.5 W	-	1.2 SSW	-	0.5 S	1.6 SSW	1.7 SSW	-	-
Period (s)	7	8	-	8	-	-	-	11	-	8	4	-	-	4	-	5	-	9	7	8	-	-

	Wednesday 21										Thursday 22
	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Dinner Plates Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Blackhead Wairarapa	Castlepoint Beach Wairarapa	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Christmas Bay Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Karitane Point Otago	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Kahutara Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	3	4	3	3	4	4	3	9	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	6
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 S	2.0 E	1.5 NNE	0.4 SSW	1.5 NNE	1.5 NNE	0.5 WSW	2.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	1.8 ENE	3.0 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	1.0 S	3.0 ENE	2.5 ENE	2.3 E	2.4 ENE	3.5 ENE	3.5 ENE	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	7	11	22	11	11	21	8	8	8	8	8	8	12	8	8	8	9	8	8	19	19
Energy(?)	562	721	772	310	759	820	419	1198	1092	593	1312	794	823	300	1518	730	899	906	1638	1633	1029	1060
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- on	on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)								8:26PM 1.29											7:51AM 1.89
Low Tide / height (m)													1:53AM 0.21	2:08AM 0.47
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	some clouds	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	-	1	1	-	3	2	-	2	2	1	2	2	-	4	4	3	4	-	-
High °C	18	16	15	19	15	15	16	16	16	14	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	16	15	16	18	19
Chill °C (?)	17	15	15	18	15	15	16	14	14	12	14	15	15	14	14	13	16	15	13	14	18	19
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:13	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 S	1.5 E	1.5 NNE	0.7 S	1.5 NNE	1.5 NNE	0.8 WSW	1.1 S	1.0 S	0.6 S	1.0 S	0.8 S	0.8 S	1.0 S	1.0 S	0.5 S	2.3 E	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE
Period (s)	14	7	11	10	11	11	11	14	13	10	13	12	12	12	12	10	8	11	10	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SSW	0.9 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.4 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.5 WSW	-	0.3 SW	0.4 SSW	0.3 SW	-	-	-	0.1 S	0.2 SSE	0.7 S	0.1 S	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW
Period (s)	10	12	12	12	12	12	21	-	12	21	12	-	-	-	23	13	11	22	13	13	19	19
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.0 ENE	2.0 E	-	2.1 E	-	-	-	2.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	1.8 ENE	3.0 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.3 ENE	2.5 ENE	3.0 ENE	2.5 ENE	-	2.4 ENE	3.5 ENE	3.5 ENE	-	-
Period (s)	6	7	-	7	-	-	-	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	-	9	8	8	-	-

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