Taranaki Surf

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

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Taranaki 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 Taranaki Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations. Surf breaks shown along the Taranaki coastline are also listed below.

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	Friday 14			Saturday 15			Sunday 16			Monday 17			Tuesday 18			Wednesday 19			Thursday 20			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 Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Waitara Bar Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Awakino River Mouth Taranaki	Marokopa Taranaki	Marokopa Taranaki	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Desperation Point Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu	Desperation Point Taranaki	Rocky Rights Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Greenmeadows Taranaki	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu	Awakino River Mouth Taranaki
Rating	0	2	0	0	4	4	0	4	3	0	1	3	3	3	3	1	3	3	3	4	1	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.6 WSW	1.9 W	2.1 W	1.5 WSW	3.0 W	3.0 WSW	1.6 W	2.4 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.5 SW	1.2 WNW	1.6 WNW	1.4 WNW	0.8 W	1.4 NW	1.8 NW	1.3 W	1.8 WSW	0.5 SW	1.0 W
Period(s) (?)	11	6	14	14	13	12	14	13	12	11	11	10	12	11	10	11	9	8	8	13	13	13
Energy(?)	763	339	1858	1591	2681	2165	998	1881	1123	405	256	113	428	654	419	143	427	583	396	1246	170	369
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	glass	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	off	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)		6:30PM 2.84		7:01AM 2.73		7:42PM 2.01	8:00AM 2.82		8:18PM 2.93	8:48AM 2.94		9:02PM 3.00	9:29AM 3.07		9:31PM 2.79	9:55AM 2.88		10:03PM 2.83	10:26AM 2.94		10:44PM 2.87	10:58AM 2.90
Low Tide / height (m)	12:05PM 0.98		12:50AM 0.98		1:16PM 1.02	2:18AM 0.58		2:12PM 0.91	2:35AM 0.75		2:58PM 0.80	3:16AM 0.64		3:38PM 0.77	3:43AM 0.38		4:06PM 0.49		4:14AM 0.35	4:34PM 0.44		4:46AM 0.35
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	light rain	light rain	mod. rain	cloudy	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	7	-	2	4	1	-	-	2
High °C	16	17	16	15	16	14	16	16	12	17	18	16	17	18	18	22	18	18	18	22	19	20
Low °C	16	16	14	15	15	11	13	15	10	15	18	15	16	18	18	19	16	17	18	21	18	19
Chill °C (?)	15	16	15	13	15	12	16	16	12	17	18	16	16	18	18	22	18	17	18	22	19	20
Sunrise	6:01	-	-	6:01	-	-	5:58	-	-	5:58	-	-	5:58	-	-	5:52	-	-	5:56	-	-	5:54
Sunset	-	8:13	-	-	8:14	-	-	8:12	-	-	8:17	-	-	8:19	-	-	8:21	-	-	8:22	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 WSW	0.3 SW	-	1.5 WSW	-	3.0 WSW	1.6 W	2.4 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.9 NW	0.6 NW	1.4 N	1.6 WNW	1.4 WNW	0.8 W	1.4 NW	0.6 NNW	1.3 W	1.8 WSW	0.9 W	1.0 W
Period (s)	11	16	-	14	-	12	14	13	12	11	8	7	7	11	10	11	9	9	8	13	6	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 W	0.2 S	-	-	-	0.1 N	-	0.1 W	0.1 W	0.1 W	0.8 WSW	0.5 SW	1.2 WNW	0.4 SW	1.1 N	-	0.4 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.9 NW	0.3 W	0.5 SW	0.4 NW
Period (s)	11	7	-	-	-	19	-	22	21	20	11	10	12	13	7	-	11	10	8	10	13	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.9 W	2.1 W	2.4 W	3.0 W	-	-	-	-	0.7 NW	-	0.4 N	-	1.2 N	-	-	0.9 N	1.8 NW	-	0.9 NW	1.1 W	-
Period (s)	-	6	14	8	13	-	-	-	-	9	-	5	-	7	-	-	4	8	-	8	6	-

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	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 Taranaki	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Waitara Bar Taranaki	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Awakino River Mouth Taranaki	Awakino River Mouth Taranaki	Marokopa Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Marokopa Taranaki
Rating	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	4	4	0	0	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.0 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.9 W	1.4 WSW	2.5 W	1.5 WSW	3.0 W	3.0 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.6 W	1.6 W	2.2 WSW	2.1 WSW	2.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	9	11	10	9	14	7	14	8	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12
Energy(?)	722	886	865	977	995	491	1047	1371	1591	2972	2681	2273	1805	1641	1487	1451	2339	878	852	1657	1229	1123
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	on	on	on	on	off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- on	cross- on	glass	glass	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)				6:30PM 2.84					7:01AM 2.73				7:28PM 2.87				8:01AM 2.60				8:15PM 2.69
Low Tide / height (m)		12:10PM 1.09									1:16PM 1.02				1:43AM 0.59				2:00PM 0.67
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	15	16	16	15	15	12	16	14	15	15	15	15	14	12	11	10	13	16	15	15	12	11
Chill °C (?)	14	14	14	13	14	10	14	12	13	13	13	13	12	10	10	9	13	16	14	15	12	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	8:14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:12	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 W	0.8 W	0.6 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.3 WSW	0.5 SW	1.4 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.5 WSW	-	-	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.6 W	1.6 W	2.2 WSW	2.1 WSW	2.0 WSW
Period (s)	10	10	16	13	14	14	14	14	14	-	-	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.2 WSW	0.3 WSW	-	0.7 WSW	0.5 W	0.1 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 WSW	-	-	-	0.1 W	0.1 N	0.1 W
Period (s)	18	18	-	16	10	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	-	-	22	18	21
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.0 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.5 W	1.9 W	1.9 WNW	2.5 W	2.4 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	9	11	10	9	7	7	6	8	8	13	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Friday 14	Saturday 15
	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 Taranaki	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Back Beach Taranaki	Waitara Bar Taranaki	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Awakino River Mouth Taranaki	Awakino River Mouth Taranaki	Marokopa Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Marokopa Taranaki
Rating	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	4	4	0	0	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.8 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 W	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.8 W	1.8 W	1.8 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW
Period(s) (?)	12	11	11	11	11	6	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	14	14
Energy(?)	997	667	763	763	886	265	835	912	865	806	1034	977	972	932	995	995	2571	1354	1354	1729	1550	1484
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross- off	on	on	on	on	on	on	on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on	on	on	on
High Tide / height (m)												6:30PM 2.84
Low Tide / height (m)						12:42PM 0.81												12:46AM 0.67
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
High °C	14	15	16	16	16	17	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	15	16	15
Chill °C (?)	12	14	15	15	14	16	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	14	14
Sunrise	6:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.5 W	1.5 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	0.8 W	0.2 SSW	0.8 W	0.6 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.6 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	-	-	1.8 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	10	7	10	16	16	16	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	-	-	14	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 WNW	0.6 W	0.7 W	0.7 W	0.3 WSW	0.2 WSW	0.3 WSW	0.3 WSW	-	-	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	1.6 WSW	-	-	0.2 W	-	-
Period (s)	12	11	11	11	18	17	18	18	-	-	16	16	16	10	10	10	14	-	-	10	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.8 WSW	-	-	-	1.7 WSW	1.7 W	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.6 W	1.5 W	1.5 W	1.7 W	1.8 W	1.8 W	1.9 W	2.1 WNW	2.0 W
Period (s)	12	-	-	-	11	6	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	8	7	7	7	15	15	7	6	7