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 22			Monday 23			Tuesday 24			Wednesday 25			Thursday 26			Friday 27			Saturday 28
	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	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Wavetraps West Coast South Island	Lighthouse (Spot C) Otago	Beatons Southland	All Day Bay Otago	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	7	4	4	4	4	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.5 SW	1.9 SW	2.0 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.7 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	3.0 NNW	3.5 NNW	2.5 ENE	1.4 WSW	3.0 E	4.5 WNW	3.0 W	1.4 WSW	2.1 SW
Period(s) (?)	14	13	14	13	14	16	13	13	11	11	12	11	14	12	12	9	15	11	11	11	10	13
Energy(?)	1146	1330	2498	1699	592	1068	549	397	826	611	1175	234	636	2750	3654	934	847	2274	5344	2094	967	1646
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	on	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	cross- on	off	off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	off	cross	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)		5:32AM 1.94	5:58PM 2.00		6:23AM 1.88	6:54PM 1.94		5:58AM 2.33			5:26AM 1.93	6:14PM 1.88		6:37AM 1.84	5:44PM 2.33		7:15AM 1.72		7:10PM 2.30	7:14AM 2.57		10:01PM 1.89
Low Tide / height (m)	11:24PM 0.12	11:46AM 0.15		11:05PM 0.41	12:41PM 0.21		1:19AM 0.30	12:26PM 0.47	1:21PM 0.31	11:19PM 0.47	11:53AM 0.38		12:29AM 0.59			12:18AM 1.27			1:19AM 0.74		3:41PM 0.37
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	8	3	-	-	-	25	1	-	-
High °C	13	13	13	12	15	16	14	16	17	14	15	21	17	16	17	14	15	17	17	18	16	10
Low °C	12	13	12	11	15	15	11	15	16	11	11	16	15	16	17	13	14	16	16	18	16	9
Chill °C (?)	12	12	12	12	15	16	14	16	17	14	15	21	17	15	16	12	15	17	16	18	16	9
Sunrise	-	7:45	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:39	-	-	7:56	-	-	7:39	-	-	7:58	-	-	7:41	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:59	-	-	7:42	-	-	7:54	-	-	7:38	-	-	7:36	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:34	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 SW	1.9 SW	2.0 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.2 W	1.1 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.7 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	3.0 NNW	3.5 NNW	0.2 S	1.4 WSW	0.2 S	-	3.0 W	1.6 NW	2.1 SW
Period (s)	14	13	14	13	14	16	7	13	11	11	12	11	14	12	12	9	15	15	-	11	8	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.1 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.4 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.2 NNW	1.1 WSW	0.2 NNW	0.1 SE	0.2 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.6 N	0.9 N	0.9 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.2 S	0.1 W	-	-	1.3 NNW	1.4 WSW	1.0 E
Period (s)	11	10	18	16	11	12	13	12	9	19	16	7	12	14	13	18	19	-	-	9	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 NW	-	1.5 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.5 ENE	-	3.0 E	4.5 WNW	-	-	-
Period (s)	3	-	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	11	11	-	-	-

	Sat	Sunday 22								Monday 23								Tuesday 24
	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	Papatowai Catlins	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Colac Bay Southland	Dinner Plates Catlins	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Anatori River Nelson - West Coast	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 SW	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	1.5 WSW	1.9 SW	1.8 SW	1.8 SW	1.4 WSW	1.4 SW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 WSW
Period(s) (?)	13	14	14	13	13	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	14	14	16	14	13	14	14	14	11	11
Energy(?)	1104	1146	1327	1237	1330	1250	1437	981	1116	1699	1589	1366	1337	1027	1068	531	1011	634	591	619	789	874
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	off	glass	cross- off	glass
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)				4:14AM 2.51				4:41PM 2.52			3:37AM 2.15				2:31PM 2.88				2:55AM 2.79
Low Tide / height (m)		11:24PM 0.12				11:46AM 0.15							9:53AM 0.15				9:24PM 0.39					10:48AM 0.26
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	11	12	11	11	11	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	12	16
Chill °C (?)	12	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	11	10	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	11	16
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:45	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:54	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 SW	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	1.5 WSW	1.9 SW	1.8 SW	1.8 SW	1.4 WSW	1.4 SW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 WSW
Period (s)	13	14	14	13	13	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	14	14	16	14	13	14	14	14	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.1 ENE	1.1 ENE	1.1 ENE	0.9 WSW	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.6 WSW	0.7 E	1.0 WSW	1.0 WSW	-	-	0.1 SE	0.2 NNW	0.2 NNW	0.4 NNE	0.2 NNW	0.2 NNW	0.2 NNW	0.1 SE	0.1 SE
Period (s)	11	11	11	13	10	10	10	18	10	16	16	-	-	10	12	11	13	10	10	11	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 NW	-	1.4 W	-	-	-	0.3 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	3	-	8	-	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Saturday 21				Sunday 22
	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	Papatowai Catlins	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Colac Bay Southland	Dinner Plates Catlins	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Anatori River Nelson - West Coast	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 SW	1.3 SW	1.3 SW	1.4 WSW	1.4 SW	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	0.9 WSW	1.4 SW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	2.0 WSW	2.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	13	13	14	13	14	13	14	14
Energy(?)	1184	1188	1104	722	1254	1146	1241	439	821	962	917	1242	1406	1572	484	348	815	508	523	501	2498	2476
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross	glass	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross	on	on
High Tide / height (m)																			1:45PM 3.03		3:17PM 2.24
Low Tide / height (m)				10:16PM 0.31	11:24PM 0.12
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	clear	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	15	14	13	14	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	15	15	15	16	16	19	13	13
Chill °C (?)	15	14	12	13	12	11	11	12	11	12	12	11	12	12	15	15	14	15	14	19	12	12
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 SW	1.3 SW	1.3 SW	1.4 WSW	1.4 SW	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	1.0 W	1.4 SW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	2.0 WSW	2.0 WSW
Period (s)	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	7	14	14	13	13	13	12	13	13	14	13	14	13	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.1 ENE	1.1 ENE	1.1 ENE	-	1.1 ENE	1.1 ENE	1.1 ENE	0.9 WSW	0.7 ENE	1.3 W	1.3 W	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.3 N	0.3 NNW	0.5 N	0.3 NNW	0.3 NNW	0.2 N	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW
Period (s)	11	11	11	-	11	11	11	14	11	7	7	13	13	13	12	12	14	13	13	13	18	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.3 WSW	0.3 WSW	-	1.4 W	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	-	0.8 NW	-	-	1.4 W	1.4 W	1.4 W	-	-	0.6 WSW	-	-	0.5 SW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW
Period (s)	3	3	-	6	3	3	3	-	4	-	-	8	8	8	-	-	4	-	-	3	14	14

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