New Zealand Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

New Zealand wave (swell) map for surfers, windsurfers and sailors showing open ocean wave size, wave period and wave energy. You can customize the wave and wind maps with overlays for wind arrows, pressure and general weather for surfing. There are also options to display live wind observations from ships, wave buoys and weather stations on the wave maps in the New Zealand region.

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New Zealand Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Thu	Friday 10			Saturday 11			Sunday 12			Monday 13			Tuesday 14			Wednesday 15			Thursday 16
	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 New Zealand	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Hawai River East Cape	Oaro Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Magnet Bay Canterbury	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa	Amberley Beach Canterbury	Dunedin - St Clair Otago	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Kaka Point Catlins	Anson Bay Norfolk Island	Anson Bay Norfolk Island	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland
Rating	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	8
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.0 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.8 N	1.9 NNE	3.0 NE	2.5 NNE	2.5 ENE	1.8 ENE	7.0 NNE	4.5 ENE	2.1 E	0.4 SSW	2.1 W	2.1 W	1.7 WNW	2.5 WNW	1.0 E	2.1 SSW	2.3 SSW	1.9 W	3.5 W	1.0 SW
Period(s) (?)	15	14	14	13	13	14	8	9	13	12	12	16	13	13	11	11	9	13	12	10	10	15
Energy(?)	846	1094	1297	1209	3371	2423	1246	515	26289	5900	1378	88	1647	1459	983	1455	337	1475	1553	923	2238	561
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	1:13AM 2.18		12:57PM 1.47	1:42AM 1.52	4:06AM 2.30	1:09PM 1.40		3:14AM 2.25						3:44AM 1.69	3:53PM 1.62		4:33AM 1.75			3:02AM 1.96
Low Tide / height (m)		6:57AM 0.48		7:02PM 0.44	10:34AM 1.08		11:00PM 1.02	9:28AM 1.05						10:06AM 0.51			10:58AM 0.43			9:16AM 0.45
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	mod. rain	rain shwrs	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	mod. rain	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	7	-	-	9	5	1	4	-	-	-	-	8	8
High °C	16	18	21	18	21	21	18	18	21	19	17	14	12	14	13	10	13	21	21	11	12	9
Low °C	14	15	19	17	19	20	17	16	19	18	14	13	12	13	12	9	9	21	21	10	11	9
Chill °C (?)	15	18	21	18	21	21	18	18	21	18	17	13	11	14	12	8	11	21	21	10	10	9
Sunrise	-	6:46	-	-	6:33	-	-	6:58	-	-	6:58	-	-	7:05	-	-	7:16	-	-	7:26	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:50	-	-	5:49	-	-	5:53	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:12	-	-	5:30	-	-	6:09	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.0 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.8 N	1.9 NNE	3.0 NE	2.5 NNE	2.1 ENE	1.8 ENE	5.5 NE	4.5 ENE	2.1 E	1.8 ENE	2.1 W	2.1 W	1.7 WNW	2.5 WNW	1.0 E	2.1 SSW	2.3 SSW	0.6 WSW	0.5 WSW	1.0 SW
Period (s)	8	14	14	13	13	14	8	9	13	12	12	13	13	13	11	11	9	13	12	13	18	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.0 WSW	0.5 NW	0.3 NNW	0.2 NNW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 S	0.1 S	-	-	-	0.4 ENE	0.5 W	0.4 NW	1.0 W	0.3 NNW	0.7 S	0.9 ESE	0.8 ESE	0.3 WSW	0.5 SW	0.1 S
Period (s)	15	14	13	13	13	13	12	8	-	-	-	18	12	14	12	13	10	13	13	19	13	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.1 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	2.5 ENE	0.2 NNW	7.0 NNE	-	-	0.4 SSW	-	-	0.4 ENE	0.4 SE	-	-	-	1.9 W	3.5 W	1.1 SW
Period (s)	6	-	-	-	-	-	8	3	13	-	-	4	-	-	3	3	-	-	-	10	10	7

	Thu	Friday 10								Saturday 11								Sunday 12
	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Tauranga Bay Northland	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Hawai River East Cape	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Coopers Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Hawai River East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Hawai River East Cape	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Hawai River East Cape	Torere Beach East Cape	Kahutara Kaikoura and Marlborough	Oaro Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Magnet Bay Canterbury
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	5	4	8	5	5	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.0 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 WSW	1.8 N	1.7 WSW	2.5 NE	1.6 SW	1.9 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NE	2.3 NNE	3.5 NE	3.5 NE	3.0 NNE	4.0 NNE	3.5 NNE	4.0 NNE	2.4 ENE	2.4 ENE	2.5 ENE
Period(s) (?)	15	16	16	15	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	8	8	9
Energy(?)	2153	1625	1552	1438	1094	1368	1183	2461	1095	1209	3453	3945	1827	4051	4728	2982	7038	4902	6058	1220	1331	1610
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	high
High Tide / height (m)			12:51AM 1.55								12:53AM 1.48				1:06PM 1.56				1:46AM 1.49			11:35AM 1.55
Low Tide / height (m)	6:47PM 0.87												7:10AM 0.52				7:35PM 0.56				6:22AM 0.34
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	18	18	18	18	15	21	19	20	18	17	18	18	20	21	22	20	20	21	21	18	19	18
Chill °C (?)	18	18	18	18	15	21	19	20	18	17	18	18	20	21	22	20	20	21	21	18	19	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	6:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:52	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.0 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 WSW	1.8 N	1.7 WSW	2.5 NE	1.6 SW	1.9 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NE	2.3 NNE	3.5 NE	3.5 NE	3.0 NNE	4.0 NNE	3.5 NNE	4.0 NNE	1.9 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.8 ENE
Period (s)	15	16	16	15	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	8	9	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.4 E	1.3 ENE	1.3 ENE	1.3 ENE	0.5 NW	0.3 NNW	0.5 NW	0.3 NW	0.1 NW	0.2 NNW	1.7 E	1.5 NNE	0.2 NNW	0.1 NW	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S
Period (s)	10	9	9	9	14	14	13	12	12	13	11	13	13	13	-	-	-	-	-	9	9	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.8 SSE	1.6 ESE	0.7 S	-	-	1.8 E	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.4 ENE	2.4 ENE	2.5 ENE
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	10	5	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	9

	Thursday 09					Friday 10
	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Tauranga Bay Northland	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Hawai River East Cape	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Coopers Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Hawai River East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Hawai River East Cape	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Hawai River East Cape	Torere Beach East Cape	Kahutara Kaikoura and Marlborough	Oaro Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Magnet Bay Canterbury
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	5	4	8	5	5	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.0 WSW	1.9 N	1.0 WSW	1.9 NNE	1.0 SW	1.9 N	2.0 N	2.0 N	1.9 N	1.9 N	1.9 N	1.8 N	1.8 N	1.8 N	1.8 N	1.0 E	1.0 E	0.8 ENE
Period(s) (?)	16	16	17	17	15	16	14	15	15	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	10	10	10
Energy(?)	2179	1369	1450	1396	803	1729	802	1551	737	1797	2414	2371	1682	1744	1659	1396	1517	1368	1350	223	211	189
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	on	on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	on	cross- on	off
High Tide / height (m)								1:21AM 2.30	2:39AM 2.00										12:18PM 1.44
Low Tide / height (m)	6:47PM 0.87												6:19AM 0.49
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	19	18	18	18	15	17	15	16	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	20	19	21	21	16	15	14
Chill °C (?)	19	18	18	18	14	17	14	16	16	17	17	17	17	18	18	20	19	21	21	16	15	12
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.0 WSW	1.9 N	1.0 WSW	1.9 NNE	1.0 WSW	1.9 N	2.0 N	2.0 N	1.9 N	1.9 N	1.9 N	1.8 N	1.8 N	1.8 N	1.8 N	1.0 E	1.0 E	0.8 ENE
Period (s)	16	16	17	17	8	16	8	15	12	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.4 E	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.0 WSW	0.2 NNE	1.0 WSW	1.4 E	1.0 SW	0.2 NNW	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	0.2 NNW	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.3 NNW	0.9 ENE	0.3 NNW	0.3 NNW	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSW
Period (s)	10	9	9	9	15	10	14	10	15	14	10	10	14	8	8	14	8	14	13	4	4	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	1.1 WSW	-	1.2 WSW	-	0.5 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 S	-	0.5 SE
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	6	-	6	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	4

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American Samoa	Fiji	Samoa
Cook Islands	French Polynesia	Tonga

New Caledonia	Queensland	Western-Australia
New-South-Wales	South-Australia
Northern-Territory	Vanuatu

Auckland	Kaikoura and Marlborough	Port Macquarie
Bay of Plenty	Lord Howe Island	Raglan and West Waikato
Canterbury	Nelson Tasman Bay	South Coast New South Wales
Catlins	Nelson West Coast	South Island New Zealand
Chatham Islands	New South Wales Far South	Southland
Coromandel	New Zealand	Sydney North Coast
East Cape	Newcastle	Sydney South Coast
Gisborne and Mahia	Norfolk Island	Taranaki
Gold Coast	North Coast New South Wales	Wairarapa
Great Barrier Island	North Island New Zealand	Wanganui Manawatu
Hawkes Bay	Northland	Wellington
Illawarra	Otago	West Coast South Island

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