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 04			Friday 05			Saturday 06			Sunday 07			Monday 08			Tuesday 09			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	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Robin Hood Bay Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Tora Point Wairarapa	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Frentzes Southland	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Anatori River Nelson - West Coast	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland
Rating	4	4	2	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 WSW	3.0 SSE	1.6 ESE	3.5 SSE	3.0 SSE	1.7 SE	0.8 E	2.0 SW	3.5 WSW	1.9 W	2.3 WSW	1.8 W	1.6 W	2.5 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.1 WNW	1.9 W	2.0 W	1.3 W	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.3 SW
Period(s) (?)	16	8	9	10	11	10	9	11	12	10	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	13	13	13	14
Energy(?)	468	856	418	2420	2212	589	296	1390	3686	1012	1505	894	810	1565	1676	1572	1015	1046	896	778	1214	630
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	cross- on	off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- on	off	off	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- on	off	off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross
High Tide / height (m)		2:06AM 2.10	11:12AM 2.09		11:36PM 2.14	11:28AM 3.43			5:57AM 2.28	6:56PM 1.72		7:22AM 1.73		7:51PM 1.51	8:36AM 1.71		8:34PM 1.57	9:39AM 1.67		7:24PM 1.78		5:11PM 1.96
Low Tide / height (m)		7:46PM 0.06	4:58AM 0.25	5:22PM 0.22		5:16AM 0.55	1:09PM 0.27	11:49PM -0.04	12:19PM 0.04		1:03AM -0.00		1:48PM -0.02	2:01AM -0.00		3:08PM -0.02	2:46AM -0.00		4:04PM 0.01	1:45AM 0.14	10:06AM 0.46
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	light rain	mod. rain	clear	rain shwrs	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	4	7	-	9	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	16	11	16	15	15	24	23	15	13	16	15	17	19	17	16	15	15	20	16	18	17	18
Low °C	16	11	13	14	12	20	19	11	12	15	10	16	18	15	15	15	11	15	16	16	15	17
Chill °C (?)	15	8	16	13	14	24	23	14	11	16	15	17	19	16	16	15	14	20	16	18	17	17
Sunrise	-	-	5:41	-	-	5:41	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:52	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:54	-
Sunset	9:12	-	-	8:37	-	-	9:15	-	-	8:59	-	-	8:50	-	-	8:58	-	-	9:15	-	-	9:31
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 WSW	-	1.6 ESE	0.2 ENE	3.0 SSE	1.7 SE	0.8 E	1.2 SW	1.2 SSW	1.9 W	2.3 WSW	1.8 W	1.6 W	0.5 N	2.5 WNW	2.1 WNW	1.9 W	2.0 W	1.3 W	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.3 SW
Period (s)	16	-	9	9	11	10	9	11	12	10	12	12	12	15	11	11	11	11	13	13	13	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 WNW	-	0.1 S	0.3 ENE	0.3 NE	0.2 SSW	0.4 SW	0.6 ESE	1.1 SW	0.6 WSW	-	-	0.4 NNW	-	0.4 NNW	1.2 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.5 WSW	1.1 NW	0.9 NW	0.7 NW	-
Period (s)	8	-	15	9	9	8	11	9	13	14	-	-	13	-	15	13	15	14	10	9	9	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.4 WSW	3.0 SSE	0.3 SSW	3.5 SSE	-	0.4 NNE	1.1 SW	2.0 SW	3.5 WSW	-	-	-	-	2.5 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	6	8	10	10	-	3	6	11	12	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Wednesday 03			Thursday 04								Friday 05								Saturday 06
	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	Long Point Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Robin Hood Bay Kaikoura and Marlborough	Lone Pine Brighton Canterbury	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Airport Rights Wellington	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa	Blackhead Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Pourere Beach Wairarapa	Blackhead Wairarapa	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland
Rating	2	2	4	4	4	3	4	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 SSW	0.5 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.8 WSW	3.0 SSE	0.9 ESE	1.8 ESE	2.5 SSE	3.0 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.4 SSE	2.2 SSE	1.3 SE	1.8 SSE	1.6 SSE	2.0 SW	2.2 W	4.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	8	9	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	11	10	11
Energy(?)	354	285	1444	1492	1038	634	2233	223	535	1194	1674	1489	1425	1216	1332	1167	576	718	515	1390	1202	4969
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off
Tide State(?)	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-ebb	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)				10:42PM 2.09						4:55PM 1.71				5:27AM 1.66				6:19PM 1.54
Low Tide / height (m)						4:23AM 0.58		10:31AM 0.09				11:07PM 0.03				12:12PM 0.02
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	11	11	14	13	12	9	15	17	16	14	11	11	11	12	18	23	27	22	20	14	13	10
Chill °C (?)	10	10	13	12	11	7	15	16	16	14	10	10	10	11	18	23	27	22	20	12	13	8
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	5:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:52
Sunset	-	9:17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:30	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.6 WSW	0.6 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.4 SE	0.9 ESE	1.8 ESE	2.5 SSE	3.0 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.4 SSE	2.2 SSE	1.3 SE	1.8 SSE	1.6 SSE	1.2 SW	2.2 W	1.4 SW
Period (s)	9	9	16	15	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	11	10	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 ENE	0.6 ENE	0.2 NNW	0.2 N	0.7 WSW	0.3 WSW	0.1 S	0.2 SSW	0.4 SW	0.1 S	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.3 NE	0.2 ENE	0.8 NE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.6 ESE	0.5 WSW	0.7 SSW
Period (s)	10	10	7	17	15	15	16	10	9	15	9	9	9	9	9	9	5	9	9	9	15	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	-	-	3.0 SSE	0.7 SSW	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 WNW	0.2 NNE	0.5 NW	1.7 NNE	1.0 WNW	0.5 W	2.0 SW	-	4.0 WSW
Period (s)	-	-	8	9	-	-	9	9	-	-	-	-	-	3	9	3	6	4	3	11	-	11

	Wednesday 03										Thursday 04
	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	Long Point Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Robin Hood Bay Kaikoura and Marlborough	Lone Pine Brighton Canterbury	Banks Peninsula - Raupo Bay Canterbury	Airport Rights Wellington	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa	Blackhead Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Pourere Beach Wairarapa	Blackhead Wairarapa	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland
Rating	2	2	4	4	4	3	4	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	2.0 WSW	0.8 W	2.5 SSE	0.7 ESE	1.1 ESE	3.0 S	3.0 SSE	3.0 SSE	3.5 SSE	3.5 SSE	3.5 S	3.5 S	2.2 SE	4.0 S	4.0 S	0.3 SSW	1.3 W	0.4 SW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	16	7	7	8	7	6	6	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	10	15	8	13
Energy(?)	421	354	468	585	637	142	521	65	151	905	1311	1457	1554	1699	1994	2153	740	2686	2934	69	289	62
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross	off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	glass
High Tide / height (m)																4:55AM 1.57
Low Tide / height (m)				4:30PM 0.29					9:44PM 0.05	10:01PM 0.62										8:36AM 0.09
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	clear	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	11	11	16	16	16	15	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	10	11	12	12	14	14
Chill °C (?)	10	10	15	15	15	14	7	11	9	7	7	7	7	9	8	8	7	8	9	11	13	14
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:41	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.8 W	0.1 E	0.7 ESE	0.5 E	0.4 ENE	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.5 ENE	0.5 ENE	2.2 SE	0.4 ENE	0.4 ENE	0.5 E	1.3 W	0.4 SW
Period (s)	9	9	16	16	16	8	12	6	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	0.5 WNW	0.5 WNW	0.3 NNW	0.4 NW	-	0.4 ENE	0.3 SSW	-	-	0.3 NE	0.3 NE	0.3 NE	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.1 S	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 SSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 SW
Period (s)	10	10	8	8	7	7	-	9	9	-	-	10	9	9	9	9	16	8	8	8	14	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	1.4 WSW	1.7 WSW	2.0 WSW	-	2.5 SSE	-	1.1 ESE	3.0 S	3.0 SSE	3.0 SSE	3.5 SSE	3.5 SSE	3.5 S	3.5 S	1.1 SW	4.0 S	4.0 S	-	-	0.7 W
Period (s)	-	-	6	7	7	-	7	-	6	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	5	9	10	-	-	4

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