Southland Surf

Detailed Southland 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 Southland. 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 Southland. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in Southland over the next 7 days. Surf photos from Southland and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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Southland Surf Forecast map for predicting the best wave and wind conditions across the region. For surfers, the map shows the most powerful swell tracking across near-shore open water and not the peak waves experienced by boats out at sea. Move your mouse over the ocean swell symbols or the surf breaks on the coastline to see a more detailed surf forecast including wave period and wind conditions. The forecast updates every 6 hours and most live weather reports update every hour. You can animate the Southland Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations. Surf breaks shown along the Southland coastline are also listed below.

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	Friday 07			Saturday 08			Sunday 09			Monday 10			Tuesday 11			Wednesday 12			Thursday 13			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 Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Beatons Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Frentzes Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Frentzes Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Frentzes Southland	Porridge Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Bluecliffs Southland
Rating	5	5	4	6	4	4	3	4	3	0	0	2	2	3	3	1	2	2	2	3	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 WSW	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	1.4 SW	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	1.4 SW	-	1.6 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.4 SW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	0.6 SW	1.2 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.6 SW	1.6 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.9 SW
Period(s) (?)	13	12	14	14	13	13	14	-	12	12	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13
Energy(?)	165	2117	3025	799	2385	2667	661	0	734	509	630	320	118	789	774	138	399	199	176	775	851	230
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- on	off	cross	cross- on	off	glass	on	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)		1:50PM 2.32	2:20AM 2.29		4:09PM 2.54		4:46AM 2.55	5:06PM 2.44		4:19AM 2.10	4:30PM 2.02		5:23AM 1.97			6:32AM 1.87	6:52PM 1.86	8:22PM 2.20	7:35AM 1.78		8:02PM 1.82	9:49AM 1.98
Low Tide / height (m)			8:03PM -0.06	8:36AM 0.16		10:34PM 0.27	11:04AM 0.46		11:32PM 0.35	10:29AM 0.39		12:24AM 0.24	11:33AM 0.49	1:04PM 0.61	12:10AM 0.35	12:43PM 0.55		2:41AM 0.55		1:52PM 0.56	2:25AM 0.44
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	heavy rain	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	4	4	-	4	2	5	19	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	6	8
High °C	17	17	14	17	15	9	16	11	14	14	12	10	11	12	10	17	17	12	14	13	11	11
Low °C	15	15	12	15	9	8	12	11	13	14	11	9	11	12	8	13	12	10	13	13	10	10
Chill °C (?)	16	16	13	16	14	8	16	8	13	14	10	7	10	11	8	17	17	12	13	12	9	9
Sunrise	6:18	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:11	-	-	6:11	-	-	6:09	-	-	6:09
Sunset	-	8:47	-	-	8:49	-	-	8:52	-	-	8:52	-	-	8:53	-	-	8:55	-	-	8:57	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 WSW	0.4 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.4 SW	0.1 S	3.0 WSW	1.4 SW	2.5 SW	1.6 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.4 WSW	0.1 S	0.7 SSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	0.6 SW	1.2 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 SW	1.6 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.9 SW
Period (s)	13	16	14	14	16	13	14	13	12	12	11	6	7	12	12	12	12	12	8	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 SW	-	-	-	0.1 SE	-	-	0.6 WNW	-	0.4 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.3 ESE	0.4 SW	-	-	0.2 SSW	-	0.3 SE	0.6 SW	0.8 WNW	0.9 WNW	-
Period (s)	7	-	-	-	10	-	-	8	-	9	9	7	12	-	-	13	-	9	12	7	9	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	2.5 W	-	-	2.5 W	-	-	0.6 E	0.4 NW	-	0.9 WSW	1.2 WSW	-	-	-	-	0.4 ENE	-	-	-	-	0.5 NNE
Period (s)	-	12	-	-	13	-	-	3	9	-	11	11	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	3

	Friday 07					Saturday 08								Sunday 09								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 Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Frentzes Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Oreti Beach Southland	Frentzes Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland
Rating	4	0	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	0	6	1	4	4	4	4	4	0	3	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 W	2.3 W	3.0 W	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	0.3 WSW	1.6 SW	1.9 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.0 SSW	2.0 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 SW
Period(s) (?)	11	12	12	12	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12
Energy(?)	1162	1645	3007	3360	3033	3025	2895	2809	2586	6527	5443	42	1079	1234	2221	2036	1891	803	567	1211	1000	1094
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	on	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	high	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	low
High Tide / height (m)			1:45PM 2.28				3:49AM 2.64				2:36PM 2.23	4:05PM 2.16			3:20AM 2.23				3:30PM 2.13
Low Tide / height (m)	7:45AM 0.07				9:39PM 0.22								9:02PM 0.00	10:34PM 0.27			9:30AM 0.27	11:04AM 0.46			9:59PM 0.12	11:02PM 0.13
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Temp. °C	13	17	16	15	14	14	12	13	15	18	14	10	8	8	9	9	11	15	16	15	14	13
Chill °C (?)	12	16	15	14	13	12	10	11	14	17	13	8	7	8	8	7	9	14	16	15	13	12
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:13	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	8:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:51	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 W	2.3 W	1.0 SW	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	0.3 WSW	1.6 SW	1.9 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.0 SSW	2.0 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 SW
Period (s)	11	12	16	12	14	14	14	13	13	15	15	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 W	0.7 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE	-	0.1 S	-	-	-	0.1 S	0.8 SW	0.2 NNW	0.3 NW	1.1 E
Period (s)	13	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	15	-	-	-	14	13	8	9	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	3.0 W	2.1 W	-	-	-	-	-	4.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	0.1 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 E	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	12	12	-	-	-	-	-	13	13	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-

	Friday 07	Saturday 08
	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 Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Frentzes Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Oreti Beach Southland	Frentzes Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland
Rating	4	0	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	0	6	1	4	4	4	4	4	0	3	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 WSW	1.9 W	0.6 WSW	2.0 W	2.2 W	2.3 W	2.3 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	0.3 S	3.0 W	2.1 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.0 W	1.4 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	0.2 ESE
Period(s) (?)	10	11	13	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	16	12	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	10
Energy(?)	401	1162	165	1304	1617	1645	1645	2343	2117	3086	2939	69	3036	3014	3033	3048	3004	1600	813	2938	2895	10
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)									3:15PM 2.61											2:25AM 2.33
Low Tide / height (m)	7:45AM 0.07
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	11	12	15	15	16	17	17	17	17	16	15	16	15	14	13	13	13	14	12	12	12	13
Chill °C (?)	9	10	14	14	15	16	16	16	16	15	14	15	14	13	12	11	11	13	10	10	10	10
Sunrise	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 W	1.9 W	0.6 WSW	2.0 W	2.2 W	2.3 W	2.3 W	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	0.3 S	1.1 SW	2.1 W	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.0 W	1.4 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW
Period (s)	7	11	13	11	12	12	12	16	16	15	15	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 WSW	0.7 W	0.4 SW	0.7 W	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	-	-	-	0.3 SE	-	0.1 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 ESE
Period (s)	10	13	7	13	16	16	16	16	-	-	-	10	-	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.5 W	2.5 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	0.3 W	3.0 W	2.1 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.2 NW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8