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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	Friday 08			Saturday 09			Sunday 10			Monday 11			Tuesday 12			Wednesday 13			Thursday 14			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	Long Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Dunedin - Blue Tops Otago	Whareama Wairarapa	All Day Bay Otago	Tora-Stix Wairarapa	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Shag Beach Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Blackhead Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough
Rating	3	4	3	4	3	5	5	4	7	5	8	7	9	6	9	6	6	5	5	5	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.6 SW	1.3 SW	3.0 NE	1.4 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.3 S	0.8 SSW	3.5 W	5.0 SW	3.5 WSW	4.0 SW	2.1 S	5.0 SSW	4.5 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.4 S	1.8 S	1.9 S
Period(s)	13	13	9	10	9	14	15	9	13	13	13	12	14	14	13	13	12	16	14	11	14	14
Energy	1165	1025	1691	569	264	823	383	2171	11683	3659	7289	1215	11917	7884	5813	9793	5936	8183	3906	1387	1298	1404
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	on	cross	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	off	cross	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		4:43PM 1.67	7:33PM 1.59	4:56AM 1.65	5:40PM 1.64	8:26PM 1.59	5:07AM 1.60	5:37PM 1.63	10:44PM 1.64	11:07AM 1.55		10:25PM 1.59	11:09AM 1.52	12:55PM 1.26	11:34PM 1.63	11:34AM 1.66		1:58AM 1.60		2:26PM 1.61	9:12PM 2.02	9:29AM 2.14
Low Tide / height (m)			2:01AM 0.59	11:23AM 0.64		2:51AM 0.56	11:32AM 0.67			4:58AM 0.42	4:11PM 0.38		5:01AM 0.36			5:24AM 0.30		7:33PM 0.46	8:15AM 0.17			3:20AM 0.22
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	clear	light rain	clear	some clouds	cloudy	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	1	2	-	-	1	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	14	14	16	13	16	13	16	12	7	10	12	10	12	12	11	12	13	10	10	12	10	11
Low °C	12	12	16	10	14	10	14	11	7	7	10	9	10	11	10	11	11	9	9	12	9	9
Chill °C (?)	13	13	14	11	14	13	16	9	3	10	10	8	10	10	9	10	11	7	9	10	10	10
Sunrise	7:48	-	-	7:45	-	-	7:13	-	-	7:48	-	-	7:48	-	-	7:54	-	-	7:54	-	-	7:28
Sunset	-	5:28	-	-	5:13	-	-	5:34	-	-	5:32	-	-	5:22	-	-	5:20	-	-	5:07	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 SW	1.3 SW	0.4 SSW	1.4 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.3 S	1.3 NE	0.1 N	3.0 SSW	3.5 WSW	1.8 SSW	2.1 S	3.0 SSW	4.5 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.0 SW	2.2 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	0.4 ENE	1.8 S	1.9 S
Period (s)	13	13	13	10	9	14	13	12	13	13	12	12	14	14	13	13	12	16	14	9	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.2 ENE	0.9 ENE	-	0.6 SSW	0.3 NE	0.8 ENE	0.9 SW	0.1 N	-	0.1 N	1.1 SW	0.7 ENE	0.5 ENE	0.4 ENE	1.0 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.3 SSW	0.4 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.2 S	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE
Period (s)	9	10	-	16	14	10	10	16	-	11	14	11	11	11	22	20	18	11	10	18	9	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.9 ENE	-	3.0 NE	1.1 SW	0.4 NW	0.9 SSW	-	3.5 W	5.0 SW	-	4.0 SW	-	5.0 SSW	-	-	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	-	2.4 S	-	-
Period (s)	9	-	9	6	3	6	-	9	13	-	13	-	14	-	-	13	12	12	-	11	-	-

	Friday 08					Saturday 09								Sunday 10								Mon
	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Long Point Catlins	Frentzes Southland	Frentzes Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Dunedin - Blue Tops Otago	Dunedin - Kuri Bush Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Whareama Wairarapa	All Day Bay Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Dee Dees Wairarapa	Tora-Stix Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island
Rating	3	3	3	4	4	4	9	4	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	5	4	5	4	5	4
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.9 NNW	1.7 WSW	1.3 SW	1.2 SW	1.5 SW	1.7 SW	3.5 WSW	2.5 N	2.2 NE	2.0 NE	2.3 SW	2.2 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.4 NE	1.7 S	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	1.7 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	3.0 W	3.0 W
Period(s)	9	11	13	17	16	17	16	10	10	10	9	12	13	13	15	14	14	14	14	14	13	12
Energy	648	981	1025	1417	1826	1687	8835	2323	906	856	1364	1450	1533	672	1318	3436	4281	1171	3033	2487	3256	2462
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	off	glass	off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State	low	low	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)				4:43PM 1.67				3:51AM 1.68		9:34AM 1.49				10:58PM 1.34				11:12AM 1.44
Low Tide / height (m)	8:48AM 1.23	10:26AM 0.62	1:25PM 0.55								2:35PM 0.49					3:09AM 0.51				5:16PM 0.49		11:48PM 0.63
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	mod. rain	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	clear	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	4	-	-	1	4	8	10	3	2	-	-	1	1	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	16	14	14	13	12	11	12	12	13	13	14	11	13	14	11	9	11	16	15	13	10	9
Chill °C (?)	16	14	13	13	12	9	10	11	12	13	12	8	13	12	10	6	10	16	15	13	8	7
Sunrise	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:41	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:13	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 NNW	1.7 WSW	1.3 SW	1.0 SW	1.1 SW	1.7 SW	3.0 N	2.5 N	2.2 NE	2.0 NE	1.1 SW	2.2 SSW	0.9 ENE	1.4 NE	1.7 S	0.7 ENE	1.3 S	1.7 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	0.1 N	3.0 W
Period (s)	9	11	13	17	17	17	11	10	10	10	9	12	10	13	15	10	14	14	14	14	11	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.9 ENE	1.2 SW	1.5 SW	0.7 ENE	2.0 W	0.9 WSW	0.4 SSW	0.4 SSW	1.0 ENE	1.0 ENE	0.9 S	0.3 SSW	0.7 ENE	-	0.6 ENE	0.6 NE	1.3 NE	0.9 NE	-	0.1 N
Period (s)	14	18	10	17	16	9	8	15	13	13	9	10	13	13	10	-	10	13	13	12	-	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 SSW	3.5 WSW	2.0 W	0.5 SW	0.7 SSW	2.3 SW	0.9 W	1.8 SSW	0.4 NW	-	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	-	-	-	3.0 W	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	3	16	8	3	4	9	4	13	3	-	14	14	-	-	-	13	-

	Friday 08																	Saturday 09
	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Island New Zealand	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Long Point Catlins	Frentzes Southland	Frentzes Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Le Bons Bay Canterbury	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Dunedin - Blue Tops Otago	Dunedin - Kuri Bush Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Whareama Wairarapa	All Day Bay Otago	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Dee Dees Wairarapa	Tora-Stix Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island
Rating	3	3	3	4	4	4	9	4	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	5	4	5	4	5	4
Wave Height (m) & direction	2.1 NNW	1.7 WSW	1.6 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.6 SW	1.3 WSW	1.5 N	2.1 NE	2.5 NE	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 ENE	1.6 ENE	0.8 ENE	0.7 SSW	1.3 ENE	0.3 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.4 SW	3.5 N	3.0 N
Period(s)	9	12	13	13	13	13	12	8	9	9	13	13	8	8	9	13	9	14	14	13	10	10
Energy	741	973	1165	286	418	1285	920	466	655	1086	227	208	103	323	156	249	342	40	73	48	3329	2953
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	off	off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	glass	on	cross- off	glass	cross- off	glass	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)															8:24PM 1.50							3:51AM 1.68
Low Tide / height (m)					10:26AM 0.62				2:53PM 0.48
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	2
High °C	16	12	12	12	13	14	16	16	16	16	12	12	13	18	13	12	13	16	17	16	13	12
Chill °C (?)	16	11	11	11	12	13	15	15	15	15	12	12	13	17	13	11	13	14	16	14	11	10
Sunrise	-	7:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.1 NNW	1.7 WSW	1.6 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.6 SW	1.6 N	1.5 N	0.4 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	0.7 ENE	0.2 SSW	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	1.3 ENE	0.3 SSW	1.8 ENE	1.3 ENE	3.5 N	3.0 N
Period (s)	9	12	13	13	13	13	8	8	14	14	8	8	8	14	9	9	9	14	9	9	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 WSW	0.4 SW	1.2 ENE	-	0.6 SSW	1.0 ENE	1.3 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.3 S	0.1 S	0.3 S	0.7 SSW	0.3 S	0.1 E	0.4 SSW	0.4 SW	1.8 W	1.8 W
Period (s)	14	19	9	-	16	9	12	12	9	9	13	13	13	10	13	13	13	10	14	13	8	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.9 ENE	-	-	1.3 ENE	0.8 NE	-	2.1 NE	2.5 NE	-	-	-	1.6 ENE	-	0.5 S	0.4 SW	2.1 NW	1.3 NW	2.4 NW	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	9	-	-	9	4	-	9	9	-	-	-	8	-	3	3	6	8	7	-	-

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