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

	Friday 06			Saturday 07			Sunday 08			Monday 09			Tuesday 10			Wednesday 11			Thursday 12			Fri
	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Porridge Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Dee Dees Wairarapa	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tora Point Wairarapa	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury
Rating	4	5	6	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	4	3	3	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.4 WSW	1.3 SW	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	2.4 SW	2.3 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.7 W	2.4 WSW	2.0 WSW	0.9 S	1.5 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.7 S	0.5 SW	2.0 WSW	1.7 WSW	0.9 SSE	1.0 SE
Period(s) (?)	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	13	12	11	12	11	11	11	13
Energy(?)	805	972	4682	4442	4584	2672	2198	4009	3374	1290	2342	1699	483	849	388	251	200	71	1009	902	313	395
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross	on	glass	glass	on	cross- on	off	cross	cross- off	cross	on	cross- off	cross- on	cross	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		2:03PM 2.01	3:15AM 2.06		6:18PM 1.80			4:12PM 1.92		7:25AM 1.62	3:55PM 1.71	3:36AM 2.71	6:38AM 2.08		7:18PM 2.06	7:38AM 1.99		9:59PM 1.54	5:36AM 2.28			7:38AM 1.52
Low Tide / height (m)			9:09PM 0.20	9:20AM 0.26		12:33AM 0.37	10:04AM 0.38		10:24PM 0.49			9:31PM 1.11		1:07PM 0.87	1:34AM 0.96		3:40PM 0.62		12:03PM 1.14		12:42AM 1.44
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	heavy rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	light rain	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	clear	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	1	-	5	-	5	4	17	12	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	2	-	-
High °C	21	20	15	15	16	14	17	16	15	18	12	16	16	16	14	17	20	16	15	15	17	22
Low °C	19	17	14	15	15	13	17	16	13	16	12	15	13	16	12	15	19	14	14	15	15	20
Chill °C (?)	21	20	14	14	15	14	17	15	15	18	10	16	16	15	14	17	20	15	14	14	17	22
Sunrise	7:30	-	-	7:30	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:22	-	-	7:09	-	-	7:24	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:18
Sunset	-	8:22	-	-	8:27	-	-	8:20	-	-	8:23	-	-	8:04	-	-	7:52	-	-	8:13	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 WNW	1.3 SW	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	2.4 SW	2.3 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.7 W	2.4 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.2 S	1.5 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.7 S	0.5 SW	0.6 W	1.7 WSW	0.9 SSE	1.0 SE
Period (s)	10	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	8	14	13	12	11	12	10	11	11	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.4 WSW	1.0 E	-	1.2 WNW	-	0.5 E	0.2 NNW	0.2 N	0.3 N	0.3 NNW	-	0.4 NNW	0.9 S	0.3 N	0.4 NNW	0.3 N	0.4 SSE	0.1 S	-	0.8 NNE	0.5 SE	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	14	10	-	8	-	9	11	13	11	11	-	10	14	5	5	5	10	9	-	10	14	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.6 N	0.8 WNW	-	0.6 NE	-	-	-	-	0.7 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.0 ENE	2.2 WNW	2.0 WSW	-	-	1.6 NE
Period (s)	4	5	-	4	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	9	11	-	-	5

	Friday 06					Saturday 07								Sunday 08								Mon
	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Bluecliffs Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	4	4	4	6	4	5	6	6	6	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 WSW	1.5 W	2.5 W	3.5 WSW	2.2 SW	3.0 SW	3.5 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.0 SW	3.0 WSW	2.1 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.1 W	3.0 WSW	1.8 W	3.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	12	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15
Energy(?)	1308	1052	2821	5371	2193	3739	5193	5193	5016	3767	4590	1959	3879	3371	3371	3504	3105	3390	1976	3720	1410	3374
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	glass	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)			2:55PM 2.14				3:15AM 2.06				2:38PM 1.92					5:10AM 2.31			2:34PM 2.76
Low Tide / height (m)	8:43AM 0.17					11:47PM 0.25			9:26AM 0.26	12:08PM 0.31				11:17PM 0.61				12:54PM 0.41			8:51PM 0.94
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	mod. rain	heavy rain	light rain	heavy rain	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	2	7	11	1	13	-	5
Temp. °C	20	14	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	19	16	17	14	14	14	14	15	15	17	16	16	14
Chill °C (?)	20	13	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	19	16	17	14	14	14	14	15	14	17	16	16	14
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:24	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	8:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:20	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 SW	1.5 W	0.1 SE	1.2 SW	2.2 SW	3.0 SW	3.5 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.0 SW	3.0 WSW	2.1 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.1 W	3.0 WSW	1.8 W	3.0 WSW
Period (s)	15	12	11	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.7 WSW	1.0 WSW	-	-	0.9 E	0.8 E	-	-	-	0.7 E	1.2 NW	0.2 N	-	-	-	-	0.5 E	0.4 ENE	0.2 NNW	0.3 N	0.2 NNW	0.3 N
Period (s)	14	15	-	-	10	10	-	-	-	9	8	12	-	-	-	-	9	8	11	11	11	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.2 WNW	0.5 NE	2.5 W	3.5 WSW	1.2 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 NE	-	-	-	-	0.7 WSW
Period (s)	6	3	14	14	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	4

	Friday 06																Saturday 07
	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Bluecliffs Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	4	4	4	6	4	5	6	6	6	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 WSW	1.4 W	1.4 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.4 WSW	2.5 W	2.5 W	1.5 SW	2.0 W	0.9 WSW	3.0 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 SW	3.0 SW	1.3 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.4 W	3.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	15	12	14	14	15	15	14	14	14	15	15	12	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	14	15
Energy(?)	525	915	805	1306	780	780	740	3557	2821	1135	1733	397	3521	7587	6350	6407	3089	3739	751	3670	832	4041
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross	cross	cross	cross	off	glass	off	cross- off	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)								2:55PM 2.14											1:41AM 2.96	2:21AM 1.94
Low Tide / height (m)					11:25AM 0.22											10:37PM 0.46	11:47PM 0.25
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	18	14	19	21	23	25	18	17	16	19	16	16	15	15	15	14	15	15	14	16	13	16
Chill °C (?)	18	13	19	21	23	25	18	16	15	19	16	16	14	14	14	13	15	15	14	16	13	16
Sunrise	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 SW	1.4 W	1.6 WNW	0.6 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.4 WSW	1.4 WSW	0.1 SE	1.5 SW	2.0 W	0.9 WSW	-	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 SW	3.0 SW	1.3 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.4 W	3.0 WSW
Period (s)	15	12	10	15	15	15	14	14	11	15	15	12	-	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	14	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.2 W	0.9 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.0 E	1.0 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	1.0 E	0.2 N	0.6 W	-	-	-	-	0.8 E	0.8 E	0.1 N	0.3 N	0.1 N	0.3 N
Period (s)	6	15	14	14	10	10	11	11	-	10	13	15	-	-	-	-	10	10	12	13	12	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 NNE	0.4 NE	0.6 N	0.2 WNW	1.1 NW	1.2 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.5 W	2.5 W	0.8 WNW	0.6 NE	-	3.0 W	3.0 W	2.4 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.2 WSW	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	3	3	4	6	5	5	11	14	14	5	3	-	14	14	14	14	6	-	-	-	-	-

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