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

	Friday 11			Saturday 12			Sunday 13			Monday 14			Tuesday 15			Wednesday 16			Thursday 17			Fri
	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	Beatons Southland	Fields Canterbury	Papatowai Catlins	Lighthouse (Spot C) Otago	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Mangahume Taranaki	Nine Mile West Coast South Island	Mangahume Taranaki	Bluecliffs Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Charleston West Coast South Island	Otago Peninsula - Allans Beach Otago	Bluecliffs Southland	Porridge Southland	Ahu Ahu Road Taranaki	Baylys Beach Northland	Back Beach Taranaki	Marokopa Taranaki	Loisell's East Cape	Wainui Beach - Stockroute Gisborne and Mahia	Wainui Beach - Stockroute Gisborne and Mahia	Papatowai Catlins
Rating	4	7	7	7	5	6	7	8	7	6	4	4	5	7	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WSW	3.0 ENE	4.5 ENE	3.5 E	3.0 WNW	3.5 WNW	4.0 WNW	4.0 W	1.4 SW	1.8 SW	3.5 W	2.0 E	0.6 SW	3.5 W	2.4 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.3 WSW	1.7 E	1.1 ESE	2.3 ESE	1.1 SSW
Period(s) (?)	14	8	11	11	10	13	13	14	16	15	13	11	16	14	10	14	13	14	10	11	8	22
Energy(?)	1380	1240	4908	3427	1514	4105	4989	5241	1070	1308	3950	951	201	4191	1086	3678	2327	1987	539	256	600	1051
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)	10:54AM 2.64				1:09PM 2.01	1:18AM 2.05	4:27AM 2.11		6:32PM 1.96	5:10AM 1.63	5:04PM 1.88		5:59AM 1.61	5:50PM 1.85	12:55AM 3.00		1:23PM 3.04	1:40AM 3.16		2:27PM 2.74		3:50AM 2.54
Low Tide / height (m)		5:02PM 0.40	11:57PM 0.54	6:57AM 0.24		7:15PM 0.38	11:00AM 0.67	12:21PM 0.23	12:56AM 0.49	11:27AM 0.21		11:00PM 0.34			6:46PM 0.29	7:19AM 0.50		7:35PM 0.57	8:21AM 0.36		9:37PM 0.42	10:10AM 0.39
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	heavy rain	light rain	some clouds	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	-	4	2	17	2	-	-	2	-	2	-	-	-	-	3	8	1	1	-
High °C	10	12	12	11	14	12	10	13	8	10	11	10	9	9	12	13	12	10	14	15	13	6
Low °C	8	12	9	9	13	11	10	12	7	7	10	9	8	8	11	10	11	9	14	14	11	6
Chill °C (?)	8	8	9	9	12	10	7	11	7	10	9	8	6	5	10	11	11	7	12	14	13	4
Sunrise	8:29	-	-	8:12	-	-	8:00	-	-	8:21	-	-	8:26	-	-	7:31	-	-	7:20	-	-	8:18
Sunset	-	5:08	-	-	5:17	-	-	5:16	-	-	5:21	-	-	5:22	-	-	5:20	-	-	5:06	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WSW	0.1 S	0.9 SW	3.5 E	1.0 WSW	3.5 WNW	4.0 WNW	4.0 W	1.3 SW	2.1 E	3.5 W	2.0 E	0.6 SW	0.3 SE	2.4 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.3 WSW	0.7 S	1.1 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.3 E
Period (s)	14	16	14	11	13	13	13	14	16	11	13	11	16	11	10	14	13	14	8	11	8	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.8 SSW	0.2 S	0.6 WSW	2.1 WSW	-	-	1.4 SW	1.8 SW	-	0.8 SW	0.5 SW	-	1.5 WSW	-	-	0.1 W	0.3 S	0.4 NE	0.9 ESE	1.2 SW
Period (s)	-	-	18	16	18	16	-	-	16	15	-	14	13	-	14	-	-	23	10	8	10	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	3.0 ENE	4.5 ENE	-	3.0 WNW	-	-	-	-	0.7 WNW	-	1.1 NE	0.5 WSW	3.5 W	-	-	-	-	1.7 E	1.3 ESE	2.3 ESE	0.5 W
Period (s)	-	8	11	-	10	-	-	-	-	4	-	5	6	14	-	-	-	-	10	6	8	3

	Friday 11							Saturday 12								Sunday 13

Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Lighthouse Reef Canterbury	Fields Canterbury	Kahutara Kaikoura and Marlborough	Possums Reef Otago	Papatowai Catlins	Porpoise Bay Catlins	Lighthouse (Spot C) Otago	Papatowai Catlins	Marokopa Taranaki	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Mangahume Taranaki	Mangahume Taranaki	Nine Mile West Coast South Island	Nine Mile West Coast South Island
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	7	9	8	7	6	7	6	5	5	7	7	6	6	7	7
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.4 W	1.4 W	2.0 E	1.8 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.6 WSW	3.5 E	5.0 ENE	4.5 ENE	4.5 ENE	4.0 ENE	3.5 E	3.5 ENE	4.0 ENE	3.5 WNW	3.5 WNW	4.5 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.5 WNW	4.5 WNW
Period(s) (?)	17	16	12	14	14	13	10	11	11	12	12	12	11	12	12	13	14	14	14	14	17	16
Energy(?)	1133	991	1066	1173	1004	880	2270	5838	4950	5731	4563	3607	3428	4681	2946	4105	6838	6011	5806	5683	11497	9878
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	glass	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)					12:29PM 1.98					3:46AM 1.63				3:41PM 1.90		10:56PM 3.31				11:30AM 2.90	12:26PM 2.61
Low Tide / height (m)		4:45AM 0.41						11:27PM 0.33				9:07AM 0.28						5:10AM 0.50
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	risk thund- der	light rain	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	-	1	5	9
Temp. °C	13	12	12	10	11	10	10	11	12	9	8	12	11	10	11	13	13	13	11	13	11	11
Chill °C (?)	12	10	10	8	9	8	8	9	11	7	6	10	9	8	11	11	11	11	9	11	8	8
Sunrise	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:41	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	5:19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:20	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.4 W	1.4 W	0.2 SSE	1.8 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.6 WSW	2.0 E	4.0 E	3.5 E	3.5 E	3.5 E	3.0 E	3.5 E	3.5 E	3.5 WNW	3.5 WNW	4.5 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	4.5 WNW	4.5 WNW
Period (s)	17	16	9	14	14	13	10	11	11	11	12	12	11	12	12	13	14	14	14	14	17	16
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 N	0.9 N	0.1 SW	-	-	0.7 WSW	-	-	0.1 S	0.3 S	0.8 SW	0.9 SW	0.2 S	0.8 SW	1.1 WSW	2.1 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	7	7	17	-	-	18	-	-	15	16	13	16	16	15	13	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	2.0 E	0.2 ESE	0.2 ESE	0.4 ESE	3.5 E	5.0 ENE	4.5 ENE	4.5 ENE	4.0 ENE	3.5 E	3.5 ENE	4.0 ENE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	12	9	9	9	10	11	11	12	12	12	11	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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