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

	Tue	Wednesday 28			Thursday 29			Friday 30			Saturday 31			Sunday 01			Monday 02			Tuesday 03
	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	Nine Mile West Coast South Island	Blaketown Wedge West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Porridge Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Nine Mile West Coast South Island	The Bluff-South Side Northland	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Karitane Point Otago	Bluecliffs Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Baylys Beach Northland	Bluecliffs Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Bluecliffs Southland
Rating	6	5	5	9	9	10	7	9	10	8	8	5	6	4	9	7	10	10	8	10	8	10
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	4.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	4.0 WSW	6.0 W	5.5 W	3.5 W	4.5 WSW	5.0 WSW	4.0 W	3.5 SW	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	1.7 ENE	4.5 W	4.5 W	5.0 W	4.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	6.0 WSW	5.0 W	5.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	12	11	11	16	15	15	14	15	16	15	16	15	14	10	14	14	16	16	18	14	14	15
Energy(?)	4416	1750	1349	7945	14955	12526	5589	7987	14114	6733	6124	2717	3288	581	7610	7368	12054	9906	6264	14743	9114	11319
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		5:41AM		6:20PM	6:59AM		7:20PM	7:57AM		9:51PM	10:23AM		10:38PM	11:09AM 7:18AM		11:17PM	11:44AM		2:35AM		2:30PM	2:48AM
Low Tide / height (m)	11:18PM	11:52AM	12:24PM	12:41AM		12:57PM 11:06PM	1:37AM		3:44PM		4:05AM	4:32PM		4:55AM	5:07PM		5:33AM	5:49PM	9:00PM	7:56AM		9:06PM
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	mod. rain	clear	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	mod. rain	heavy rain	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	2	-	-	9	-	2	9	-	-	3	-	1	3	-	8	16	-	4	-	1	2	1
High °C	10	12	12	13	9	10	8	9	10	11	16	12	10	12	11	9	12	13	13	8	9	6
Low °C	9	9	12	9	9	8	6	7	9	9	15	11	10	9	7	7	10	11	11	7	8	6
Chill °C (?)	8	12	11	11	6	8	4	6	8	8	15	12	8	12	9	6	10	11	11	5	6	3
Sunrise	-	7:05	-	-	7:22	-	-	7:22	-	-	6:48	-	-	7:05	-	-	7:16	-	-	7:15	-	-
Sunset	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:17	-	-	6:19	-	-	6:17	-	-	6:21	-	-	6:21	-	-	6:23	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	4.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	4.0 WSW	-	1.6 SW	3.5 W	1.3 WSW	1.5 WSW	4.0 W	3.5 SW	2.5 W	3.0 WSW	1.7 ENE	1.2 WSW	4.5 W	5.0 W	4.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.2 SW	1.4 SW	1.8 SW
Period (s)	12	11	11	16	-	15	14	15	17	15	16	15	14	10	15	14	16	16	18	15	15	19
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.4 WSW	-	-	0.9 SW	-	1.2 SW	1.1 SW	-	1.1 NW	-	2.3 NNW	0.3 SSW	0.9 SW	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	1.2 SW	1.5 SW
Period (s)	22	20	20	-	-	9	-	8	8	-	9	-	9	15	8	-	-	-	-	12	10	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	6.0 W	5.5 W	-	4.5 WSW	5.0 WSW	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	4.5 W	-	-	-	1.3 WNW	6.0 WSW	5.0 W	5.0 WSW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	15	15	-	15	16	-	-	-	-	4	14	-	-	-	8	14	14	15

	Tue	Wednesday 28	Thursday 29	Fri

Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Nine Mile West Coast South Island	Nine Mile West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Blaketown Wedge West Coast South Island	Blaketown Wedge West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland
Rating	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	8	9	10	8	9	10	10	10	8	7
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 WNW	4.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	3.0 W	3.0 WNW	2.5 W	2.5 WNW	2.2 W	3.5 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.5 WSW	5.0 W	6.0 W	6.0 W	5.5 W	4.5 W	4.0 W	3.5 W
Period(s) (?)	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	17	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	14	14
Energy(?)	2396	4416	1931	2091	1750	1603	1349	1122	6311	7945	10887	12237	14955	14406	12526	8242	6155	5589
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	glass	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)				5:45AM 2.76					7:42PM 1.79				8:35AM 1.79				8:53PM 1.81
Low Tide / height (m)		11:18PM 0.66				11:40AM 0.78					2:04AM 0.51				2:38PM 0.64
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	heavy rain	rain shwrs	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	cloudy	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	2	-	-	1	-	3	2
Temp. °C	10	10	8	8	9	13	12	12	12	13	10	9	9	9	10	9	6	7
Chill °C (?)	8	8	6	7	8	12	11	12	10	11	8	6	6	6	8	7	3	4
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:15	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 WNW	4.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	3.0 W	3.0 WNW	2.5 W	2.5 WNW	2.2 W	3.5 WSW	4.0 WSW	1.8 SW	-	-	-	1.6 SW	4.5 W	4.0 W	3.5 W
Period (s)	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	17	16	16	-	-	-	15	15	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 WNW	0.2 W	0.2 W	1.1 NNW	0.2 W	0.3 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.9 SW	-	-	-
Period (s)	15	22	21	8	20	20	20	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 NNE	-	4.5 WSW	5.0 W	6.0 W	6.0 W	5.5 W	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	16	16	15	15	15	-	-	-

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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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