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

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	Thu	Friday 16			Saturday 17			Sunday 18			Monday 19			Tuesday 20			Wednesday 21			Thursday 22
	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 West Coast South Island	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	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel 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	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Charleston West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	3	3	2	2	0	2	2	0	2	1	0	2	3	1	2	2	2	3	3	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.6 SW	1.3 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 SW	0.5 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.6 SW	0.5 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 SW	0.6 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 W	1.2 NNW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	13	12	11	11	11	11	12	12	11	11	13	13	13	13	12	12	22	20	20	15
Energy(?)	932	610	254	200	213	254	275	97	255	60	94	278	276	114	255	219	421	363	627	850	454	998
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	glass	off	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	on	off	cross- off	off	off	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- on	off
High Tide / height (m)		9:59AM 2.41		10:25PM 2.82	11:27AM 1.90		11:47PM 1.92	11:14AM 2.82		11:52PM 3.16	12:43PM 2.02		12:29AM 3.21	12:43PM 3.30		1:00AM 3.09		1:14PM 3.18	1:37AM 3.08		2:30PM 2.07	2:19AM 3.18
Low Tide / height (m)	3:48AM 0.74		4:16PM 0.98		5:20AM 0.68	5:02PM 1.18		5:02AM 0.52	6:16PM 0.58		6:36AM 0.55	6:14PM 0.32		6:37AM 0.94	6:54PM 0.89		6:54AM 0.26		7:26PM 0.50	8:23AM 0.43		8:10PM 0.79
WeatherAdvanced Surf Forecast
Summary	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	heavy rain	heavy rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	rain shwrs	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	38	-	-	-	-	2	-
High °C	16	16	18	15	20	16	17	20	17	16	20	16	16	19	14	14	17	18	18	22	17	17
Low °C	15	16	17	13	17	16	13	16	17	10	15	15	15	16	13	13	15	18	18	20	17	11
Chill °C (?)	16	16	18	15	20	16	17	20	17	16	20	16	16	19	13	13	17	18	18	22	16	17
Sunrise	-	6:22	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:18	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:28	-	-	6:28	-	-
Sunset	-	-	9:12	-	-	9:07	-	-	9:25	-	-	9:24	-	-	9:07	-	-	9:23	-	-	9:00	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 SW	1.3 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 SW	0.5 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.7 SW	0.5 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 SW	0.8 NNE	1.1 NNE	0.7 W	1.2 NNW
Period (s)	13	13	13	12	11	11	11	11	12	12	11	11	11	13	11	13	12	12	11	10	20	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 N	0.5 NNE	0.5 N	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.5 N	0.2 NNW	0.4 NW	0.4 NNE	0.3 N	0.3 N	0.4 NNE	0.6 SW	0.2 N	0.7 WSW	0.3 N	0.9 NNE	0.8 NNE	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.5 N	0.8 WSW
Period (s)	8	8	7	11	11	5	10	10	6	5	5	6	13	14	13	8	9	9	11	20	8	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	0.2 ESE	-	-	0.4 ESE	-	0.3 ESE	0.2 E	-	0.4 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 SW	0.5 WSW	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	3	-	2	3	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	-	-

	Thu	Friday 16								Saturday 17								Sunday 18
	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 West Coast South Island	Charleston West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Westport Breakwater West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	2	3	2	3	2	2	1	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.3 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.2 SW	1.0 WSW	1.3 WSW	0.7 WSW	1.4 SW	1.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 SW	1.0 SW	0.5 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	11
Energy(?)	733	577	545	504	610	295	508	372	502	200	512	282	213	169	164	252	207	205	202	274	284	86
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	cross- off	off	glass	glass	glass	glass	off	off	off	off	cross- off	glass	on	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	glass	glass
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	low	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	low	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)	9:38PM 2.29					10:09AM 2.93				10:30PM 2.98				10:52AM 3.05				11:07PM 2.92				11:31AM 3.15
Low Tide / height (m)			3:55AM 1.03					4:01PM 0.73				4:32AM 0.63				4:57PM 0.87				6:00AM 0.61
WeatherAdvanced Surf Forecast
Summary	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	light rain	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	18	16	15	15	16	15	16	16	15	14	13	15	17	20	18	16	15	15	13	13	17	20
Chill °C (?)	18	16	15	15	16	15	16	16	14	14	12	15	17	20	18	16	15	15	12	12	17	20
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:24	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:07	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.3 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.2 SW	1.0 WSW	1.3 WSW	0.7 WSW	1.4 SW	1.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 SW	1.0 SW	0.5 WSW
Period (s)	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 NNW	0.7 NNW	0.7 N	0.6 N	0.5 NNE	0.5 N	0.4 NNE	0.4 NNW	0.4 NNE	0.4 NW	0.4 NE	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.5 N	0.4 NW	0.4 N	0.4 NW	0.2 NNW	0.4 NE	0.3 NW
Period (s)	7	7	7	7	8	7	7	6	7	11	6	11	11	11	11	5	10	4	10	10	7	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.3 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 SE	0.2 ESE	-
Period (s)	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	-

	Thursday 15				Friday 16
	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 West Coast South Island	Charleston West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Westport Breakwater West Coast South Island	Little Wanganui West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	2	3	2	3	2	2	1	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.6 SW	0.9 WSW	1.4 SW	1.0 WSW	1.4 SW	0.5 WSW	1.4 SW	1.1 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 SW	1.2 SW	0.8 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	14	13	14	13	14	10	10	10	13	14	13	13	13	13	13
Energy(?)	695	442	426	426	932	419	776	458	767	253	773	469	237	236	235	484	461	466	436	516	508	241
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	glass	glass	glass	off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross	glass	cross
High Tide / height (m)			9:38PM 2.70													10:04AM 2.76
Low Tide / height (m)																						4:21PM 1.27
WeatherAdvanced Surf Forecast
Summary	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	20	19	18	17	15	15	15	15	15	13	15	15	14	14	14	16	16	15	16	16	16	18
Chill °C (?)	20	19	18	17	15	14	15	15	15	12	15	15	14	14	14	16	16	15	16	16	16	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	9:08	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 WSW	0.9 NNW	0.8 NNW	0.8 NNW	1.6 SW	0.9 WSW	1.4 SW	1.0 WSW	1.4 SW	0.8 WSW	1.4 SW	1.1 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 SW	1.2 SW	0.8 WSW
Period (s)	14	7	7	7	13	14	13	14	13	10	13	14	10	10	10	13	14	13	13	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 N	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.6 N	0.6 N	0.6 NNE	0.7 NNW	0.6 NNE	0.6 N	0.6 NNE	0.6 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.6 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.5 N	0.4 NNE	0.4 NNE	0.4 N
Period (s)	7	14	14	14	8	7	8	7	8	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.2 SSE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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