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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	Wednesday 03			Thursday 04			Friday 05			Saturday 06			Sunday 07			Monday 08			Tuesday 09			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	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Te Araroa East Cape	Tuapeka Point Chatham Islands	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Last Chance Gisborne and Mahia	Loisell's East Cape	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	Wavetraps West Coast South Island	Marokopa Taranaki	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Dunedin - Blue Tops Otago	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Otago Peninsula - Pipikaretu Otago	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Blackhead Wairarapa
Rating	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	5	5	4	9	5	4	5	9	9	9
Wave Height (m) & direction	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.1 NNE	2.3 N	1.1 SW	1.7 WNW	2.1 NW	2.0 NW	2.0 NW	2.3 NNE	2.0 N	2.4 WNW	4.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.0 S	4.0 WSW	2.5 SW	1.6 SSW	2.1 S	4.0 SSW	3.5 S	5.0 S
Period(s)	11	10	10	11	13	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	11	10	10	16	16	14	21	16	16	17
Energy	1724	1717	1044	1290	735	738	737	668	692	1022	1097	1502	4125	3069	1755	8570	4892	1071	3836	15246	13498	13671
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)	9:18AM 1.59		9:03PM 2.04	8:52AM 0.99	3:54PM 1.96	1:21AM 2.99		1:50PM 2.89	2:05AM 2.91	9:51AM 1.45		1:37AM 3.12		2:12PM 2.40	10:55PM 1.52	4:22AM 1.73		10:00PM 1.65	11:17AM 1.31		11:37PM 1.41
Low Tide / height (m)		3:19PM 0.31				7:15PM 1.11	8:02AM 0.55		7:57PM 1.13	3:47AM 0.38	4:09PM 0.41	7:27PM 0.99	9:16AM 1.12			10:45AM 0.60	2:41PM 0.41		5:09AM 0.27	3:33PM 0.35		6:31AM 0.22
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	cloudy	mod. rain	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	mod. rain	some clouds	cloudy	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	4	1	-	-	-	9	5	4	9	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	16	16	14	11	15	14	14	15	13	17	17	15	10	12	10	13	14	13	15	13	12	13
Low °C	14	14	12	11	14	13	13	14	12	16	16	15	7	9	8	12	14	12	13	13	11	11
Chill °C	16	15	14	9	15	13	13	14	13	16	17	15	10	11	8	12	12	12	15	11	12	12
Sunrise	7:22	-	-	7:56	-	-	8:10	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:58	-	-	8:14	-	-	7:48	-	-	7:31
Sunset	-	5:04	-	-	5:07	-	-	5:08	-	-	4:52	-	-	5:07	-	-	5:00	-	-	4:58	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.1 NNE	2.3 N	1.1 E	1.7 WNW	2.1 NW	2.0 NW	2.0 NW	1.2 NE	1.7 NNE	2.4 WNW	0.9 NNW	3.5 WSW	0.2 ENE	4.0 WSW	1.7 SSW	0.5 S	2.1 S	3.0 S	3.0 S	5.0 S
Period (s)	11	10	10	11	7	9	9	9	9	8	9	10	11	10	9	16	16	16	21	16	16	17
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	1.5 ENE	1.3 NW	0.1 S	1.1 SW	0.2 WSW	0.1 SW	0.4 NW	0.3 N	0.2 E	0.2 E	0.8 SW	-	1.0 NW	0.1 E	-	0.2 ENE	0.1 NE	0.2 ESE	1.5 S	1.8 S	-
Period (s)	-	10	8	11	13	10	13	9	11	10	10	12	-	10	10	-	10	10	12	22	22	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.5 S	0.5 S	1.6 ENE	1.3 N	-	-	-	2.3 NNE	2.0 N	-	4.0 WSW	-	3.0 S	-	2.5 SW	1.6 SSW	-	4.0 SSW	3.5 S	-
Period (s)	-	-	4	5	7	7	-	-	-	9	9	-	11	-	10	-	16	14	-	16	16	-

	Wednesday 03							Thursday 04								Friday 05
	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3:45AM	6:45AM	9:45AM	12:45PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Tuapeka Point Chatham Islands	Tuapeka Point Chatham Islands	Tuapeka Point Chatham Islands	Tuapeka Point Chatham Islands	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Haast Beach 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
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction	3.0 NNE	3.0 NE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 N	2.1 NNE	2.5 N	2.5 N	2.3 N	2.1 N	1.1 SW	1.0 SW	1.7 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.1 NW	1.8 NW	2.1 NW	1.6 WNW	2.0 NW	2.0 NW
Period(s)	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	12	11	11	11	13	13	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Energy	2171	3165	1724	1498	1717	2039	1347	1044	1970	1613	1290	1039	735	607	1061	738	777	514	737	708	668	655
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	off	glass	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off
Tide State	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)				9:18AM 1.59				9:03PM 2.04			8:52AM 0.99			3:54PM 1.96			1:21AM 2.99				1:50PM 2.89
Low Tide / height (m)		3:10AM 0.40							2:59AM 0.30						7:50PM 0.61				8:02AM 0.55
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	light rain
Rain (mm)	1	2	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	2	2	4	3	3	2	2
Temp. °C	14	14	14	16	16	15	14	13	12	11	11	11	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	15	15	14
Chill °C	14	13	13	16	15	15	14	13	10	8	9	10	15	13	12	12	12	12	12	14	14	13
Sunrise	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:56	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:10	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	5:04	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:08	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 NNE	3.0 NE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 N	2.1 NNE	2.5 N	2.5 N	2.3 N	2.1 N	1.1 E	1.0 SW	1.7 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.1 NW	1.8 NW	2.1 NW	1.6 WNW	2.0 NW	2.0 NW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	12	11	11	11	7	13	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	2.1 N	-	-	1.5 ENE	1.6 NE	0.2 S	1.3 NW	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.1 S	0.2 E	1.1 SW	1.0 E	0.6 SW	0.2 WSW	0.2 WSW	0.9 NNE	0.1 SW	1.4 NNW	0.4 NW	0.2 WSW
Period (s)	-	12	-	-	10	10	14	8	12	11	11	11	13	7	13	10	10	7	13	9	9	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.4 S	-	0.5 S	-	1.6 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.8 NNE	1.3 N	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	4	3	-	5	-	7	7	8	7	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Wednesday 03
	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Whakatane Heads Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Mount Maunganui Bay of Plenty	Clark Island Coromandel	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape	Te Araroa East Cape
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction	3.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NE	3.0 NE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.1 NE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 N	2.5 N	2.5 N
Period(s)	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Energy	3212	2415	2171	2171	3279	3165	3165	3059	1724	1724	1527	1498	1470	1742	1717	1382	2060	2039	2009	1375	1347	1347
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)										9:18AM 1.59												9:03PM 2.04
Low Tide / height (m)				3:10AM 0.40
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	16	15	15	14	14	14
Chill °C	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	15	15	16	16	16	15	14	16	15	14	14	14	14
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NE	3.0 NE	3.0 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.5 NNE	2.1 NE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	3.0 NNE	2.5 N	2.5 N	2.5 N
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	2.1 N	2.1 N	2.1 N	2.1 N	-	-	-	-	-	1.5 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.2 S
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	12	12	12	12	-	-	-	-	-	10	10	10	10	10	10	14	14	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.5 S
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	3

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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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