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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	Thu		Friday 07			Saturday 08			Sunday 09			Monday 10			Tuesday 11			Wednesday 12			Thu
	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Beatons Southland	Long Point Catlins	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Marokopa Taranaki	Baylys Beach Northland	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Scott Point Northland	Beatons Southland	Gnarlies Wairarapa	Tora Point Wairarapa	Nicks Point Southland
Rating	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	2	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 NW	1.3 W	0.5 SW	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	1.3 SW	1.4 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.3 SW	2.0 SW	2.0 SW	1.2 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.5 WNW	1.0 WSW	1.4 SW	1.8 WSW	1.8 SW	1.5 WSW	1.9 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.4 WSW
Period(s) (?)	10	7	13	12	14	14	12	13	13	13	14	9	9	10	12	12	11	11	12	7	9	12
Energy(?)	267	335	137	1972	2705	706	669	2723	1804	1326	1471	367	742	1207	575	765	777	898	627	446	418	1034
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	glass	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- off	off	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	6:56PM 1.85	7:38PM 1.75	7:35AM 1.70		7:54PM 1.87		2:41PM 2.26			3:30PM 2.13		5:46AM 2.43	6:09PM 2.33	7:29PM 1.86	6:48AM 2.32			9:14AM 1.86			4:40AM 2.30	5:25PM 2.59
Low Tide / height (m)		1:43AM 0.22		6:43PM 0.42	2:07AM 0.14	7:45AM 0.23		11:44PM 0.06	9:24AM 0.27		9:59PM 0.12	12:03PM 0.54		1:52AM 0.20		2:32PM 0.31	12:04AM 0.35		3:35PM 0.33	10:30PM 0.66	10:52AM 0.73
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	light rain	cloudy	clear	clear	heavy rain	heavy rain	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	7	-	-	-	-	1	-	5	-	-	-	24	38	25	5	4	1	2	-	5	-	-
High °C	14	12	17	17	14	16	18	10	12	18	17	14	15	15	18	19	16	17	14	16	20	13
Low °C	14	9	15	16	13	15	17	9	11	18	16	14	14	13	17	17	15	17	12	16	19	13
Chill °C (?)	13	10	16	16	13	15	18	8	10	18	17	12	14	14	18	19	16	16	13	16	20	11
Sunrise	-	-	6:18	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:15	-	-	6:03	-	-	6:18	-	-	5:50	-
Sunset	8:22	-	-	8:47	-	-	8:01	-	-	8:02	-	-	8:40	-	-	8:05	-	-	8:55	-	-	8:57
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 NW	0.4 WSW	0.5 SW	0.4 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.3 SW	1.4 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.3 SW	2.0 SW	2.0 SW	1.2 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.5 WNW	1.2 W	1.4 SW	1.8 WSW	1.8 SW	1.5 WSW	0.5 S	1.6 ENE	1.4 WSW
Period (s)	10	18	13	16	14	14	12	13	13	13	14	9	9	10	9	12	11	11	12	7	9	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 SW	-	-	-	0.6 W	-	-	-	-	0.7 NW	0.5 WSW	0.1 N	1.0 WSW	1.0 W	0.1 W	0.6 SW	-	0.4 SSW	0.3 S	0.3 WSW
Period (s)	11	10	7	-	-	-	16	-	-	-	-	8	12	12	12	9	18	16	-	12	7	20
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.3 W	-	2.5 W	-	-	0.4 SW	-	0.4 NE	-	-	1.7 NNE	1.5 N	-	-	-	-	1.4 NNE	0.3 SE	1.9 ENE	0.3 SW	1.0 WSW
Period (s)	-	7	-	12	-	-	3	-	7	-	-	6	7	-	-	-	-	5	3	7	4	12

	Thursday 06			Friday 07								Saturday 08								Sunday 09
	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Loisell's East Cape	Diners Beach Gisborne and Mahia	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Bluecliffs Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Long Point Catlins	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Bluecliffs Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki
Rating	2	3	3	2	2	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 S	1.2 S	1.3 S	1.0 NW	1.1 S	1.3 WNW	1.7 W	1.0 WSW	3.0 W	1.3 WSW	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.3 SW	3.0 WSW	2.5 SW	1.6 SW	2.5 SW	3.0 SW	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.7 WSW
Period(s) (?)	11	11	11	9	10	9	11	12	12	15	12	14	13	14	13	14	15	14	14	14	14	13
Energy(?)	365	601	518	251	264	599	1051	519	2771	1212	2221	2705	2852	2125	2547	2284	1020	2997	3155	1047	1047	1018
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass
Tide State(?)	-	mid-flow	mid-ebb	high	low	low	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	high	high	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)				12:07AM 3.52					1:45PM 2.28				3:49AM 2.64	5:04AM 2.17			2:36PM 2.23	5:27PM 2.00		12:30AM 2.97
Low Tide / height (m)					1:11AM 0.15	6:55AM 0.15	7:45AM 0.07	10:24AM 0.06			8:09PM -0.07					11:22AM 0.13						6:57AM 0.12
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	21	22	18	13	15	10	13	17	16	15	14	14	13	15	15	19	14	9	9	14	14	13
Chill °C (?)	21	22	18	13	15	9	12	17	15	14	13	13	11	14	14	19	14	8	7	14	14	13
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	6:20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07
Sunset	-	7:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:43	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 S	1.2 S	1.3 S	1.0 NW	1.1 S	1.3 WNW	1.7 W	1.0 WSW	0.9 SW	1.1 SW	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.3 SW	3.0 WSW	2.5 SW	1.6 SW	2.5 SW	3.0 SW	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.7 WSW
Period (s)	11	11	11	9	10	9	11	12	16	15	12	14	13	14	13	14	15	14	14	14	14	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.2 S	0.2 S	1.2 NE	0.3 WSW	0.7 NE	0.6 W	0.8 W	0.6 SSW	-	1.3 WSW	-	-	-	0.4 E	-	0.4 E	-	0.3 E	0.4 NE	-	-	0.8 SW
Period (s)	15	15	7	11	7	12	13	16	-	15	-	-	-	10	-	10	-	9	8	-	-	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 ENE	1.7 NNE	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.0 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 WNW	-	1.6 WSW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	8	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	6	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 06										Friday 07
	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Loisell's East Cape	Diners Beach Gisborne and Mahia	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Bluecliffs Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Long Point Catlins	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Bluecliffs Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki
Rating	2	3	3	2	2	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 S	1.2 S	1.4 S	1.0 NW	1.2 S	1.3 NW	1.9 W	0.4 SW	0.2 SSW	1.5 W	1.4 W	1.3 W	1.3 W	1.5 W	1.2 W	0.4 SSW	0.3 SW	0.4 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.3 WSW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	11	10	11	9	6	20	19	6	7	7	7	6	7	18	18	18	18	11	11	20
Energy(?)	441	428	572	235	359	321	275	192	58	268	352	335	334	411	327	212	104	198	214	98	98	170
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	cross	cross- on	on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	off	off	cross	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)																4:08AM 2.20
Low Tide / height (m)						6:28PM 0.11
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	light rain	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	20	21	17	14	22	13	14	12	12	10	11	10	10	9	10	9	9	10	12	17	18	17
Chill °C (?)	20	21	16	14	22	13	12	11	11	9	10	8	8	8	8	7	7	9	11	17	18	17
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:09	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 S	1.2 S	1.4 S	1.0 NW	1.2 S	1.3 NW	0.1 S	0.7 SSE	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 W	0.9 WSW	0.4 SW	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.5 WNW
Period (s)	12	12	11	10	11	9	9	9	6	6	18	18	18	6	7	6	13	5	5	11	11	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 NE	0.3 S	0.2 S	0.4 WSW	0.2 ENE	0.6 NNE	-	0.4 ENE	0.2 SSW	0.3 SW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.5 S	0.5 WSW	0.5 S	0.4 SW	0.4 SE	0.5 SE	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.4 WSW
Period (s)	8	15	15	11	9	5	-	6	19	19	10	10	10	8	10	8	7	11	11	9	9	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.5 NNE	0.6 NE	-	0.5 NE	-	1.9 W	0.9 WSW	1.6 W	1.5 W	1.4 W	1.3 W	1.3 W	1.5 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 W
Period (s)	-	5	8	-	7	-	6	5	6	6	7	7	7	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	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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