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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	Thu	Friday 23			Saturday 24			Sunday 25			Monday 26			Tuesday 27			Wednesday 28			Thursday 29
	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	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Larsen Street West Coast South Island	Blackhead Wairarapa	Shingles West Coast South Island	Lyall Bay Wellington	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Humenga Lodge Wairarapa	Lyall Bay Wellington	Lyall Bay Wellington	Tora Point Wairarapa	Dunedin - Blue Tops Otago	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Papatowai Catlins	Dee Dees Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland
Rating	4	4	4	5	4	5	4	7	6	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	3	4	1	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 E	2.5 E	0.5 SSW	1.3 NNW	1.1 E	3.5 W	2.1 S	2.1 S	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.5 S	2.4 SSW	2.4 S	2.2 S	1.8 S	1.6 SSE	1.4 S	0.6 WSW	0.6 SW	0.9 S	1.3 WSW	1.9 WSW
Period(s) (?)	11	11	14	11	9	13	9	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	13	13	9	12	10
Energy(?)	1992	1575	140	809	293	4084	726	1297	5014	2181	1576	1481	2156	1788	732	961	372	218	296	198	695	857
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	on	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	on	glass	off	on	cross- off	off	cross	cross- off	glass	on	cross- off	off	cross	cross
High Tide / height (m)		8:55AM 1.49		9:46PM 1.49	10:11AM 1.54		10:08PM 1.40	10:39AM 1.43		8:41PM 1.63	5:10AM 1.82	5:39PM 1.84		12:20PM 1.46		12:53AM 1.55	6:51AM 2.36		7:08PM 2.60	12:39PM 2.23	2:19PM 1.64	2:48AM 1.66
Low Tide / height (m)	3:05AM 0.15		3:16PM 0.21	3:53AM 0.43		4:16PM 0.18		4:29AM 0.19	2:59PM 0.33	3:09AM 0.34	11:23AM 0.56		11:17PM 0.52	6:11AM 0.19				1:05PM 0.82	1:27AM 0.64	6:45AM 0.82		8:25PM 0.09
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	rain shwrs	light rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	cloudy	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	1	1	8	1	-	1	-	1	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	17	19	13	14	15	17	14	15	17	15	17	16	12	14	15	10	19	17	17	22	17	12
Low °C	16	19	13	13	13	16	13	15	16	14	16	15	10	13	14	9	16	17	14	19	16	11
Chill °C (?)	17	19	11	14	13	16	13	14	17	14	17	16	10	14	15	9	19	17	16	22	16	9
Sunrise	-	6:15	-	-	6:09	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:18	-	-	6:18	-	-	6:16	-	-
Sunset	-	-	9:22	-	-	9:02	-	-	8:45	-	-	8:45	-	-	8:45	-	-	9:28	-	-	9:15	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 E	2.5 E	1.8 ENE	1.3 NNW	1.1 E	3.5 W	2.1 S	2.1 S	2.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.5 S	2.4 SSW	2.1 S	2.0 S	1.8 S	1.6 SSE	1.4 S	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.9 S	1.3 WSW	1.9 WSW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	9	13	9	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	10	9	9	12	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 SSW	0.9 WSW	0.5 E	0.3 NNW	0.4 NW	0.6 E	-	0.3 E	0.3 ESE	0.8 E	0.6 ESE	0.6 E	0.6 E	1.1 SW	0.2 SSW	0.6 WSW	0.8 SSE	0.4 ENE	0.7 WSW	0.5 WSW
Period (s)	10	10	14	14	11	12	9	9	-	11	12	11	11	11	11	13	14	13	8	10	16	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.7 WSW	-	1.2 SSW	-	0.9 WNW	-	-	0.5 NNE	3.0 SSW	-	-	-	2.4 S	2.2 S	-	-	-	-	0.4 NE	0.6 NW	-	-
Period (s)	4	-	5	-	4	-	-	4	12	-	-	-	10	10	-	-	-	-	4	3	-	-

	Thu	Friday 23								Saturday 24								Sunday 25
	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	Christmas Bay Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Clarence River Kaikoura and Marlborough	Karitane Point Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Larsen Street West Coast South Island	Meatworks Kaikoura and Marlborough	Blackhead Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Fox River West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Smithfield Canterbury	Lyall Bay Wellington	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	6	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.3 E	2.2 E	2.2 E	1.7 ESE	2.1 E	1.9 E	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	3.5 W	2.5 SSW	2.4 SW	2.4 S	4.0 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	4.0 S	2.4 SSW	3.0 SSW
Period(s) (?)	11	11	11	11	11	10	11	10	12	12	13	12	13	8	8	9	13	13	13	12	12	12
Energy(?)	2248	1892	1795	1563	1315	1168	1191	1012	1187	1072	4921	4914	4637	1643	1351	1109	4697	3388	3005	5575	1478	4268
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	glass	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	off	off	glass	glass	off	off	cross- off	glass
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-flow	high	mid-flow	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)	9:03PM 1.13				9:18AM 1.52				7:14PM 1.60		3:34AM 1.94								3:27AM 2.79			10:32AM 1.46
Low Tide / height (m)			2:40AM 0.20				3:16PM 0.21						9:01AM 0.33			4:02PM 0.19	9:36PM 0.30
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	19	17	17	16	19	22	18	18	12	11	13	13	15	14	17	14	15	14	12	13	15	15
Chill °C (?)	18	17	17	16	19	22	18	18	10	8	12	12	15	13	16	12	15	14	12	12	14	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:20	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:55	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.3 E	2.2 E	2.2 E	1.7 ESE	2.1 E	1.9 E	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	3.5 W	1.9 S	1.7 SSW	1.0 E	4.0 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	1.6 SE	2.4 SSW	2.4 S
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	11	10	11	10	12	12	13	12	13	8	8	9	13	13	13	13	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	1.2 ENE	-	0.4 SSW	0.9 N	0.8 N	0.2 NNW	1.2 E	0.8 E	0.2 E	0.4 NNW	0.4 NW	0.4 NNW	0.5 E	0.3 NNW	0.7 E
Period (s)	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	-	14	11	11	13	10	9	12	11	12	12	10	9	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.6 W	-	-	0.3 WNW	-	-	-	-	1.8 SSW	1.3 SSW	-	-	-	2.5 SSW	2.4 SW	2.4 S	-	-	-	4.0 S	-	3.0 SSW
Period (s)	3	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	6	6	-	-	-	8	8	9	-	-	-	12	-	12

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	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	Christmas Bay Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Clarence River Kaikoura and Marlborough	Karitane Point Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Larsen Street West Coast South Island	Meatworks Kaikoura and Marlborough	Blackhead Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Fox River West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Smithfield Canterbury	Lyall Bay Wellington	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	6	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	2.3 ENE	0.6 SSW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	0.9 WSW	2.5 E	1.9 E	2.4 E	1.2 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.4 E	1.0 SE	2.2 E
Period(s) (?)	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	16	16	16	16	11	10	11	16	16	16	12	10	11
Energy(?)	2539	1766	1799	1964	1951	2152	1892	1926	999	213	1360	1305	728	1707	803	1458	1274	1017	930	583	240	1191
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	off	on	on	cross	cross- on	cross	cross- off	glass
High Tide / height (m)		8:30PM 1.35												8:55AM 1.49	9:34AM 1.44
Low Tide / height (m)								2:49AM 0.20													3:40PM 0.65
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	5	3	-	-	1
High °C	20	17	17	17	16	17	17	16	14	13	15	14	16	18	21	20	16	14	15	14	18	18
Chill °C (?)	20	16	16	17	16	16	17	16	13	12	14	13	16	18	21	20	16	13	15	12	16	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	8:44	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	3.0 E	2.3 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	0.9 WSW	2.5 E	1.9 E	2.4 E	1.3 WSW	1.1 NNW	1.1 NNW	1.4 E	1.0 SE	2.2 E
Period (s)	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	16	16	16	11	10	11	7	12	12	12	10	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.6 SSW	0.4 NNE	0.4 NNE	0.8 NNW	0.5 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	1.2 NNW	1.0 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.1 S	0.5 S	0.5 S
Period (s)	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	16	8	8	13	10	10	10	12	16	16	15	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.7 WSW	-	-	-	0.4 SW	1.7 WSW	1.5 WSW	-	-	0.7 W	-	-	-	-	0.9 SSE	2.2 NW	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	3	3	4	-	-	-	3	6	6	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	5	6	-

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