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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7 day 48 hour

	Wednesday 09			Thursday 10			Friday 11			Saturday 12			Sunday 13			Monday 14			Tuesday 15			Wed
	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 New Zealand	Horseshoe Bay East Cape	Charleston West Coast South Island	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Tora Point Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tora Point Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Lighthouse (Spot C) Otago	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Nine Mile West Coast South Island	Mangahume Taranaki	Scott Point Northland	Kumera Patch Taranaki	Oakura Beach Taranaki	Kumera Patch Taranaki	Fitzroy Beach Taranaki	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	Beatons Southland	Crescent Head NSW - Port Macquarie	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	9	4	4	5	6	6	7	6	5	4	4	4	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.5 E	3.0 NNW	1.7 ESE	1.7 E	1.8 WSW	1.3 W	2.2 ENE	1.7 WSW	4.5 ENE	2.0 E	2.3 E	3.5 WNW	4.0 WNW	4.0 WSW	4.0 W	4.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.1 SW	1.8 WSW	2.0 S	3.5 W
Period(s) (?)	13	10	10	11	17	17	12	13	11	12	11	13	13	14	14	14	13	12	12	13	10	12
Energy(?)	734	2091	576	646	1821	1015	1259	989	4775	1092	1340	4526	4823	6350	6326	5064	3625	1607	1180	1057	851	3730
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	on	off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)				10:15AM 2.54			5:40AM 1.49			5:33AM 1.35		1:18AM 2.05		1:49PM 2.03	12:32AM 2.85		12:56PM 2.72	1:14AM 2.85	8:08AM 1.32			9:41AM 1.59
Low Tide / height (m)	11:37AM 0.67	4:20PM 0.59	12:02AM 0.78	4:05AM 0.51	4:23PM 0.49	11:38PM 0.44	11:54AM 0.39		11:35PM 0.27	11:40AM 0.22		7:15PM 0.38	7:37AM 0.20		6:22PM 0.29	6:48AM 0.21		7:03PM 0.28		2:24PM 0.39	9:21PM 0.34	3:36AM 0.18
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	16	5	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
High °C	13	11	11	14	12	13	13	11	11	15	15	11	13	15	12	13	13	11	15	11	10	10
Low °C	12	11	11	10	11	11	11	10	10	13	14	10	13	13	12	12	11	9	12	9	9	9
Chill °C (?)	11	9	10	13	11	12	11	9	7	14	15	9	10	14	11	12	12	10	14	10	8	8
Sunrise	7:20	-	-	7:43	-	-	7:41	-	-	7:26	-	-	7:41	-	-	7:39	-	-	7:33	-	-	8:15
Sunset	-	5:17	-	-	5:17	-	-	5:19	-	-	5:08	-	-	5:35	-	-	5:19	-	-	5:22	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 E	3.0 NNW	1.7 ESE	1.5 E	1.8 WSW	1.3 W	1.9 E	1.7 WSW	4.0 ENE	2.0 E	2.3 E	3.5 WNW	3.5 W	4.0 WSW	4.0 W	4.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.1 SW	1.8 WSW	1.3 SSE	0.7 NNE
Period (s)	13	10	10	10	17	17	12	13	11	12	11	13	13	14	14	14	13	12	12	13	9	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 SE	0.4 WSW	1.2 E	1.2 ENE	0.5 WNW	1.3 NNW	0.2 SSE	0.2 WSW	0.2 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	-	-	-	-	0.9 WSW	-	-	1.6 SW	0.3 ESE	0.4 SSE	0.7 NNW
Period (s)	13	13	12	12	7	8	9	20	14	15	14	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	14	11	12	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.1 SE	-	0.3 NNE	1.7 E	-	-	2.2 ENE	0.2 ESE	4.5 ENE	-	1.6 NNE	-	4.0 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.0 S	3.5 W
Period (s)	8	-	3	11	-	-	12	9	11	-	6	-	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	12

	Wednesday 09							Thursday 10								Friday 11

Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Te Araroa East Cape	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Horseshoe Bay East Cape	Charleston West Coast South Island	Charleston West Coast South Island	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Tora Point Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tora Point Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia
Rating	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 ENE	2.5 N	1.5 E	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	1.9 ESE	2.1 ESE	1.7 ESE	1.9 E	1.9 E	1.7 E	1.5 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.2 W	1.3 W	1.4 W	1.4 W	2.2 ENE	2.0 E	1.7 WSW	2.4 E
Period(s) (?)	14	10	13	10	10	11	11	10	12	12	11	17	17	16	17	17	17	16	12	12	13	12
Energy(?)	243	1170	734	1751	2091	917	1045	576	1013	1010	646	1312	1821	1807	869	1015	1133	991	1259	1079	989	1610
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)				9:31AM 2.45		4:38PM 1.59				4:05AM 1.33		11:48AM 1.94				10:32PM 2.66					12:29PM 1.98
Low Tide / height (m)		3:56AM 0.63						10:52PM 0.50						5:56PM 0.49				4:45AM 0.41		11:06AM 0.57
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	4	-	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	12	10	12	10	11	12	11	11	12	12	10	12	12	11	13	12	12	11	11	14	11	14
Chill °C (?)	10	8	10	7	9	11	10	10	11	11	8	10	11	10	12	10	10	9	9	13	9	12
Sunrise	-	-	7:20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:41	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	5:17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:19	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 E	2.5 N	1.5 E	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	1.9 ESE	2.1 ESE	1.7 ESE	1.9 E	1.9 E	1.5 E	1.5 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.2 NNW	1.3 W	1.4 W	1.4 W	1.9 E	0.2 SSE	1.7 WSW	0.3 SSE
Period (s)	9	10	13	10	10	11	11	10	12	12	10	17	17	16	8	17	17	16	12	9	13	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 ENE	0.4 SW	0.1 SE	0.6 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.6 S	0.5 S	1.2 E	0.3 S	0.3 S	1.2 ENE	0.3 WNW	0.5 WNW	0.5 W	1.2 W	1.3 NNW	1.3 NNW	1.3 N	0.2 SSE	0.1 SW	0.2 WSW	0.1 S
Period (s)	14	13	13	13	13	11	11	12	9	9	12	7	7	7	17	8	7	7	9	16	20	17
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.2 SE	-	1.1 SE	-	-	-	-	0.3 NNE	0.4 N	1.3 NNE	1.7 E	0.6 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.2 ENE	2.0 E	0.2 ESE	2.4 E
Period (s)	7	-	8	-	-	-	-	3	5	5	11	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	12	9	12

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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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