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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	Tue	Wednesday 03			Thursday 04			Friday 05			Saturday 06			Sunday 07			Monday 08			Tuesday 09
	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	Anatori River Nelson - West Coast	Long Point Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Blackhead Wairarapa	Blackhead Wairarapa	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Frentzes Southland	Beatons Southland	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Colac Bay Southland	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Colac Bay Southland	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Colac Bay Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	2	2	4	3	2	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	3	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 WNW	0.7 ENE	0.7 WSW	1.2 W	1.6 ESE	3.5 SSE	3.0 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.2 SSE	2.5 W	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.3 SSW	1.5 W	1.6 W	1.7 W	3.0 WNW	2.2 WNW	1.6 W	2.5 W	1.5 NW	1.6 WSW
Period(s) (?)	8	10	16	8	9	10	11	11	11	10	11	12	11	12	12	13	10	10	11	13	10	13
Energy(?)	311	301	281	268	372	2099	1835	1558	1076	1912	3673	2287	493	659	786	1054	2021	1456	623	2323	843	1103
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross	cross	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	off	off	cross	cross	on	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	glass	glass	off	cross	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		9:45AM 3.19		10:03PM 2.94	10:06AM 3.18	2:30PM 2.01	3:01AM 2.18		5:34PM 2.03	12:31AM 2.17	12:55PM 2.18		12:51AM 3.43	6:18AM 2.17	6:41PM 1.95	7:54PM 1.71	8:19AM 1.72		9:02PM 1.70	9:21AM 1.87		10:01PM 1.48
Low Tide / height (m)	3:30AM 0.64		3:55PM 0.63				8:39PM 0.00	9:15AM 0.08			6:44AM 0.25	6:34PM 0.51		12:41PM 0.07		2:01AM 0.51		2:46PM -0.01	3:07AM 0.26		3:42PM 0.01
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	heavy rain	cloudy	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	clear	light rain	some clouds	rain shwrs	heavy rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	mod. rain	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	1	-	26	16	5	-	-	6	1
High °C	15	11	16	11	15	15	12	23	25	15	13	13	15	21	19	11	16	15	14	18	17	18
Low °C	11	11	16	9	13	14	11	19	22	12	12	13	14	19	18	9	15	15	11	14	16	17
Chill °C (?)	14	10	15	10	14	14	11	23	25	14	11	12	15	21	19	8	16	15	14	18	17	18
Sunrise	-	5:43	-	-	5:39	-	-	5:37	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:50	-	-
Sunset	-	-	9:12	-	-	8:37	-	-	8:30	-	-	9:28	-	-	8:53	-	-	9:00	-	-	9:01	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 WNW	0.7 ENE	0.7 WSW	1.2 W	1.6 ESE	0.3 ENE	3.0 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.2 SSE	2.5 W	1.4 SW	3.0 WSW	1.3 SSW	1.5 W	1.6 W	0.3 ESE	0.5 N	2.2 WNW	1.6 W	2.5 W	1.5 NW	1.6 WSW
Period (s)	8	10	16	8	9	9	11	11	11	10	13	12	11	12	12	8	15	10	11	13	10	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 WSW	0.8 SW	0.5 WNW	0.4 WSW	0.1 S	0.3 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	1.0 WSW	0.3 SSW	-	0.9 ESE	0.2 S	0.3 NNW	0.1 S	-	1.1 W	0.1 S	-	1.1 WSW	1.1 NW
Period (s)	10	9	8	16	15	9	8	9	9	15	12	-	4	8	13	6	-	13	8	-	11	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	1.7 WSW	-	0.3 SSW	3.5 SSE	-	0.5 W	0.8 WNW	-	3.5 WSW	-	0.8 E	0.3 WSW	-	1.7 W	3.0 WNW	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	6	-	10	10	-	3	4	-	11	-	4	12	-	13	10	-	-	-	-	-

	Tue	Wednesday 03								Thursday 04								Friday 05
	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	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Anatori River Nelson - West Coast	Long Point Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Amberley Beach Canterbury	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Airport Rights Wellington	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa
Rating	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	3	3	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 NW	1.1 NW	1.0 NW	1.0 NW	0.8 WSW	0.7 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.5 SW	1.5 SE	3.0 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 ESE	1.7 ESE	2.3 SSE	3.0 SSE	3.0 SSE	2.4 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.2 SSE
Period(s) (?)	8	8	8	8	10	16	16	16	6	9	9	10	10	9	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11
Energy(?)	259	256	223	251	218	421	354	305	239	1522	1078	725	622	416	426	1012	1982	1835	1385	1022	1071	1148
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)	9:13PM 3.20				9:14AM 3.02		1:36PM 1.95			10:42PM 2.09					3:52PM 1.94	4:55PM 1.71				5:27AM 1.89
Low Tide / height (m)			3:30AM 0.64						9:54PM 0.05			4:23AM 0.58						11:07PM 0.03				12:05PM 0.02
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	12	11	11	13	13	11	11	11	10	12	12	9	14	15	16	14	11	11	11	12	18	22
Chill °C (?)	11	10	10	12	11	10	9	10	8	11	11	7	14	14	15	14	10	10	10	11	18	22
Sunrise	-	-	-	5:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:39	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:38	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 NW	1.1 NW	1.0 NW	1.0 NW	0.8 WNW	0.8 SW	0.7 SW	0.8 SSW	1.0 ESE	0.6 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 ESE	1.7 ESE	2.3 SSE	3.0 SSE	3.0 SSE	2.4 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.2 SSE
Period (s)	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	6	15	9	10	10	9	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	0.6 ENE	0.4 ENE	0.2 N	0.7 WSW	0.3 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.3 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.2 SSW	0.3 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.3 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.3 E	0.4 SW
Period (s)	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	17	15	15	15	9	9	10	8	8	9	9	9	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.5 SE	3.0 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 NW	-	0.6 NW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	3

	Tuesday 02				Wednesday 03
	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	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Anatori River Nelson - West Coast	Long Point Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Long Point Catlins	Amberley Beach Canterbury	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Airport Rights Wellington	Tora Point Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa
Rating	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	3	3	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.6 NW	1.3 NW	1.3 NW	1.3 NW	1.2 WNW	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.5 E	0.9 NW	0.7 NW	0.9 NW	0.9 NW	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	1.3 SSE	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	1.4 SE	1.4 SE	1.5 SSE	1.3 S
Period(s) (?)	8	8	8	8	8	11	11	11	10	8	8	8	8	10	10	5	9	9	5	5	6	6
Energy(?)	387	259	259	310	315	336	336	401	60	268	162	172	172	113	113	80	149	168	187	192	219	239
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	glass	cross- on	cross- on	glass	on	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)			9:13PM 3.20				1:11AM 2.00		3:18AM 2.02												3:59PM 1.46	4:15PM 1.48
Low Tide / height (m)										4:05AM 0.30				8:47AM 0.14
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2
High °C	14	13	12	14	15	10	10	10	12	10	10	12	12	12	12	14	14	14	14	14	13	15
Chill °C (?)	14	12	11	13	15	9	10	10	10	9	8	11	12	11	10	12	13	13	13	13	12	14
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	8:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 NW	1.3 NW	1.3 NW	1.3 NW	1.2 WNW	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.5 E	0.9 NW	0.7 NW	0.9 NW	0.9 NW	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	0.1 SW	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.6 ENE	1.0 S
Period (s)	8	8	8	8	8	11	11	11	10	8	8	8	8	10	10	11	9	9	9	9	9	5
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.2 NNE	0.7 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.1 NW	0.2 SSW	0.2 SSW	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	0.2 SSW	0.6 E
Period (s)	10	10	10	6	10	9	9	9	6	9	9	9	9	10	10	7	11	10	10	10	10	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 SE	0.4 SW	0.5 WSW	-	-	0.6 SE	0.6 SE	1.3 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.4 SE	1.4 SE	1.5 SSE	1.3 S
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	3	4	-	-	4	4	5	4	5	5	5	6	6

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