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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	Sat		Sunday 12			Monday 13			Tuesday 14			Wednesday 15			Thursday 16			Friday 17			Sat
	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	Hawai River East Cape	Waipu Cove Northland	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Burleigh Heads QLD - Gold Coast	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	All Day Bay Otago	Fox River West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Dunedin - Cob Cottage Otago	Bluecliffs Southland	Tora Point Wairarapa	Bluecliffs Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Nicks Point Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast
Rating	5	9	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	6	4	4	5	4	5	7	5	8
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.5 NNE	6.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	1.6 E	2.1 E	2.5 E	1.9 E	3.0 W	2.4 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.5 W	2.5 W	0.9 E	1.4 SW	4.0 WSW	1.3 SSW	1.2 SW	1.4 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.4 W	2.4 SSE
Period(s) (?)	14	14	8	14	11	12	12	14	10	12	12	11	12	9	11	9	15	13	12	14	14	6
Energy(?)	2798	17630	1426	1027	1026	1970	1061	7199	1502	2030	1894	1627	243	510	5105	333	653	1390	2472	3744	2879	459
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	on	cross	cross	off	glass	cross- on	off	cross- off	cross	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		1:46AM 1.49										6:32AM 1.56						7:48AM 1.56			8:31AM 1.37
Low Tide / height (m)		7:24PM 0.45	8:03AM 0.52									12:52PM 0.14							1:46PM 0.07
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	heavy rain	mod. rain	clear	rain shwrs	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	mod. rain	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	heavy rain	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	heavy rain	mod. rain	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	57	8	-	1	-	-	14	7	7	2	-	-	2	1	-	23	2	1	13	7	-
High °C	21	21	19	25	18	18	16	15	11	13	11	13	16	10	12	15	12	14	15	13	14	20
Low °C	20	20	17	22	17	18	13	12	11	12	8	10	15	9	10	14	10	11	11	12	13	19
Chill °C (?)	21	21	19	25	18	18	15	14	10	11	11	13	15	7	10	15	11	14	14	12	13	19
Sunrise	-	-	6:52	-	-	6:52	-	-	7:15	-	-	7:05	-	-	7:26	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:09	-
Sunset	5:49	-	-	5:31	-	-	6:04	-	-	6:05	-	-	5:52	-	-	5:45	-	-	6:07	-	-	5:24
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 NNE	-	1.8 ENE	1.6 E	2.1 E	2.5 E	1.9 E	3.0 W	2.4 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.5 W	2.5 W	0.9 E	0.8 S	2.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.2 SW	1.4 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.4 W	0.1 NE
Period (s)	14	-	9	14	11	12	12	14	10	12	12	11	12	10	11	9	15	13	12	14	14	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 NW	-	0.1 S	0.9 SSE	-	0.3 SSW	0.2 S	0.4 NW	1.1 W	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.2 SSW	0.5 E	0.1 SW	0.5 E	0.5 S	1.2 SSW	-	1.0 NNW	2.0 NNW	0.1 E
Period (s)	13	-	9	6	-	5	4	13	13	13	13	12	8	12	18	11	8	16	-	8	8	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	6.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	-	0.7 SW	-	-	2.5 W	-	-	-	-	0.4 ENE	1.4 SW	4.0 WSW	0.6 W	-	0.8 WNW	-	-	-	2.4 SSE
Period (s)	-	14	8	-	4	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	3	9	11	4	-	5	-	-	-	6

	Saturday 11			Sunday 12									Monday 13							Tuesday 14
	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	4PM	9PM	10PM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	4PM	7PM	0AM	1AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Blue Duck Stream Kaikoura and Marlborough	Waipu Cove Northland	Otama Coromandel	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Saltwater NSW - Port Macquarie	Raneika Beach Hawkes Bay	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Tora Point Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Anna Bay-Morna Point NSW - Newcastle	All Day Bay Otago	Anna Bay-Morna Point NSW - Newcastle	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago
Rating	4	5	5	5	4	4	9	8	4	4	7	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.5 NNE	2.4 ENE	2.3 ENE	5.5 ENE	5.0 ENE	2.1 ENE	1.4 E	5.5 ENE	1.7 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.1 E	2.2 E	1.5 E	2.1 S	1.9 E	2.0 S	1.9 E
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	8	8	13	14	9	14	12	14	11	12	12	11	11	14	12	12	12	12
Energy(?)	2798	3749	3989	4314	1096	1129	11622	14661	1108	1101	8986	1276	1845	2100	1970	1016	1238	1104	1970	1077	1478	1013
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	off	glass	glass	off	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	flow	flow	ebb	flow	mid-ebb	flow	flow	flow	flow	flow	mid-flow	high	ebb	low	ebb
High Tide / height (m)	1:09PM 1.40				12:07AM 1.40														5:36PM 1.19
Low Tide / height (m)			7:24PM 0.45				8:53AM 0.65														11:18PM 0.46
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	heavy rain	mod. rain	heavy rain	clear	mod. rain	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	37	10	13	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Temp. °C	21	20	20	21	19	19	20	21	17	23	19	18	18	17	18	20	19	20	19	13	16	9
Chill °C (?)	21	20	20	21	19	19	20	21	17	23	19	18	18	17	18	20	19	20	19	13	16	7
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	5:49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:58	5:32	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:55	5:30	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.5 NNE	1.9 ENE	1.9 ENE	5.5 ENE	5.0 ENE	1.6 E	1.4 E	5.5 ENE	1.7 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.5 E	2.1 E	2.2 E	1.5 E	2.1 S	1.9 E	2.0 S	1.9 E
Period (s)	14	14	14	14	8	8	13	14	9	14	12	14	11	12	12	11	11	14	12	12	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 NW	-	-	-	0.1 S	0.1 S	-	4.0 E	0.1 S	1.1 S	-	0.9 SSE	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.3 SSW	1.2 NE	0.3 NNE	0.5 SSE	1.4 E	0.3 ESE	1.1 E	0.4 SSW
Period (s)	13	-	-	-	9	9	-	12	8	8	-	7	4	4	5	11	5	12	14	16	13	4
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	2.4 ENE	2.3 ENE	-	-	2.1 ENE	1.5 SSW	-	-	0.7 SW	-	-	0.5 NW	-	1.0 SSE	-	0.6 NW	-	0.6 SW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	8	8	-	-	9	8	-	-	4	-	-	3	-	7	-	3	-	4

	Saturday 11												Sunday 12
	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	8PM	11PM	10PM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	4AM	5AM	8AM	7AM	10AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Hawai River East Cape	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Blue Duck Stream Kaikoura and Marlborough	Waipu Cove Northland	Otama Coromandel	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Saltwater NSW - Port Macquarie	Raneika Beach Hawkes Bay	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Tora Point Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Anna Bay-Morna Point NSW - Newcastle	All Day Bay Otago	Anna Bay-Morna Point NSW - Newcastle	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago
Rating	4	5	5	5	4	4	9	8	4	4	7	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	1.8 ENE	1.8 ENE	5.0 NE	5.0 ENE	2.0 E	1.1 E	2.2 ENE	1.3 E	2.5 ENE	2.4 ENE	2.4 ENE	2.2 ENE	2.4 ENE	1.4 E	1.2 E	1.7 E	1.2 E	0.2 SSW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	6	6	14	14	7	13	11	14	7	8	8	6	8	13	13	9	13	13
Energy(?)	2460	2720	2798	3255	360	375	12364	9366	438	565	1231	684	1162	1130	1096	380	1120	731	706	491	644	18
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- on	cross	glass	on	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		1:09PM 1.40											12:07AM 1.40
Low Tide / height (m)						5:47PM 0.34		7:38PM 0.50				9:13PM 0.67
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	light rain	light rain	some clouds	clear	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	21	21	21	21	20	19	19	19	17	19	17	22	19	19	19	17	19	20	13	13	13	18
Chill °C (?)	21	21	21	21	20	19	18	18	16	19	16	22	19	19	19	16	19	20	11	12	11	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:07	6:09	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	5.0 NE	-	0.1 S	1.1 S	0.1 S	1.3 E	2.0 E	2.0 E	1.9 ENE	0.1 SW	1.9 ENE	1.4 E	1.2 E	1.7 E	1.2 E	2.0 ENE
Period (s)	14	14	14	14	10	10	14	-	12	7	7	14	8	8	8	12	8	13	13	9	13	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 S	0.1 S	-	-	-	1.1 E	0.1 S	0.7 NE	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSW	0.1 S	1.2 S	0.2 SSW
Period (s)	13	13	13	13	13	13	-	-	-	13	13	6	12	9	9	8	9	8	10	13	7	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	1.8 ENE	1.8 ENE	3.5 ESE	5.0 ENE	2.0 E	-	2.2 ENE	1.0 SSE	2.5 ENE	2.4 ENE	2.4 ENE	2.2 ENE	2.4 ENE	1.0 SSE	1.3 SSW	-	0.5 W	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	6	6	10	14	7	-	11	5	7	8	8	6	8	5	7	-	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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