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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New Zealand Wavefinder

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	Thu	Friday 17			Saturday 18			Sunday 19			Monday 20			Tuesday 21			Wednesday 22			Thursday 23
	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	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Baylys Beach Northland	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Lennox Head NSW - North Coast	Saltwater NSW - Port Macquarie	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Ning Nong Point and Reef Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Murdering Bay Otago	Lighthouse (Spot C) Otago	Otago Peninsula - Allans Beach Otago	Otago Peninsula - Allans Beach Otago	Dinner Plates Catlins	Lennox Head NSW - North Coast	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast
Rating	4	5	4	4	4	7	7	5	6	7	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	7	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 W	1.0 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 W	2.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	3.0 W	2.1 SSE	2.5 S	2.5 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.1 SE	2.5 S	2.5 SSE	4.0 ESE	4.5 ESE	4.5 ESE	4.0 ESE	3.0 ESE	2.1 SSE	1.9 SE
Period(s) (?)	12	13	13	12	12	12	13	14	11	12	12	13	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11
Energy(?)	2739	499	2596	1870	1241	5401	6455	3659	1230	2650	2160	2088	872	1134	1484	3750	4324	4323	6811	2051	1030	825
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	off
High Tide / height (m)		10:53AM 2.14		10:43PM 3.38	11:00AM 3.49		12:40AM 2.24			10:57PM 2.82	11:16AM 2.71		2:21AM 2.18	3:48AM 2.45	4:26PM 2.45			3:08PM 1.91	2:58AM 3.03		4:19PM 1.81
Low Tide / height (m)	10:05PM 0.14	4:44AM 0.20	5:06PM 0.13		4:50AM 0.44	12:07PM 0.19	6:34PM 0.05	6:54AM -0.01	3:14PM 0.08		5:13AM 0.00	3:56PM 0.10	8:16PM 0.21	10:14AM 0.35		9:11PM 0.34	8:46AM 0.43		8:41PM 1.02	9:22AM 1.00		10:27PM 0.64
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	heavy rain	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	light rain	some clouds	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	2	8	-	1	1	5	4	1	-	-	-	-	2	1	2	22	-	-	2	2	-	1
High °C	12	12	18	11	11	12	11	14	20	20	21	21	17	17	17	13	13	13	13	13	22	19
Low °C	11	11	17	10	9	12	10	12	20	15	19	21	14	15	15	10	12	13	13	13	21	16
Chill °C (?)	10	11	18	9	10	11	9	14	20	20	21	21	16	17	17	12	12	11	11	12	22	19
Sunrise	-	7:28	-	-	7:28	-	-	7:09	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:54	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:31	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:57	-	-	6:07	-	-	5:23	-	-	5:22	-	-	5:44	-	-	5:49	-	-	5:20	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 W	1.0 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 W	2.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	3.0 W	0.4 SSE	1.4 SSE	2.5 SSE	0.1 NE	2.1 SE	2.5 S	2.5 SSE	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.4 SW	3.5 ESE	3.0 ESE	2.1 SSE	1.9 SE
Period (s)	12	13	13	12	12	12	13	14	17	15	12	13	8	10	10	14	13	13	10	10	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.6 SW	-	0.2 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.7 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 N	0.1 NE	0.2 NNE	-	-	1.4 SSW	0.6 ENE	0.6 ENE	-	-	0.1 S	1.3 S	0.7 SSW	0.2 NNE	0.1 NE
Period (s)	-	16	-	21	19	18	16	8	9	11	-	-	10	8	8	-	-	20	8	16	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.3 NE	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.1 SSE	2.5 S	-	2.5 SSE	-	-	-	4.0 ESE	4.5 ESE	4.5 ESE	4.0 ESE	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	12	-	13	-	-	-	10	10	10	10	-	-	-

	Thu	Friday 17								Saturday 18								Sunday 19
	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	8PM	0AM	3AM	5AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Kekerengu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Bluecliffs Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Anson Bay Norfolk Island	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Anson Bay Norfolk Island	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	6	7	5	5	7	7
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.8 SSW	3.5 WSW	3.5 WSW	2.5 W	2.4 W	1.9 S	3.5 W	3.0 W	2.0 SSW	2.5 SW	2.4 SW	1.8 SSW	2.4 W	2.0 W	2.0 W	2.5 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W
Period(s) (?)	9	12	12	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	14	13	14	15	14	14
Energy(?)	1054	4001	3335	1956	1660	1359	3562	3296	1359	2039	1945	1103	2085	1474	1462	3126	5601	6455	3282	3710	6739	6395
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)		10:38PM 2.05								9:31PM 2.77					1:43PM 2.64			11:59PM 2.15
Low Tide / height (m)				4:09AM 0.50		11:14AM 0.22		5:49PM 0.04				2:19AM 0.24	6:14AM 0.01							5:32AM 0.44	6:07AM 0.16
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	clear	mod. rain	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	clear	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	1	-	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	3	4	1	1
Temp. °C	13	10	11	11	12	18	13	13	21	15	14	21	10	11	11	10	11	10	11	12	10	13
Chill °C (?)	12	9	10	11	12	18	12	12	21	14	13	21	8	10	11	10	9	8	9	11	8	12
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 S	3.5 WSW	3.5 WSW	2.5 W	2.4 W	1.9 S	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	2.0 SSW	2.5 SW	2.4 SW	1.8 SSW	2.4 W	2.0 W	2.0 W	2.5 W	4.0 W	4.0 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	4.0 W	4.0 W
Period (s)	9	12	12	12	12	13	14	15	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	14	13	14	15	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 E	-	0.1 N	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.6 ESE	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.4 ESE	-	-	0.3 ESE	0.8 WSW	0.5 WSW	0.5 WSW	1.1 W	-	1.5 WSW	1.0 N	1.1 N	0.9 NNE	0.6 NNE
Period (s)	11	-	10	10	10	13	10	10	11	-	-	14	14	18	18	16	-	16	8	8	8	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.8 SSW	-	-	-	-	-	3.5 W	3.0 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	9	-	-	-	-	-	12	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 16					Friday 17
	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	2AM	4AM	5AM	5AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Kekerengu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Bluecliffs Southland	Bluecliffs Southland	Anson Bay Norfolk Island	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Anson Bay Norfolk Island	Beatons Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Colac Bay Southland	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island
Rating	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	6	7	5	5	7	7
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.4 S	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	3.5 W	3.5 W	1.4 SSW	1.6 SW	1.5 SW	1.6 SSW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	1.6 SSW	2.5 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.2 W	2.2 W	2.2 WSW	2.2 WSW
Period(s) (?)	9	12	12	12	12	7	13	13	10	11	11	10	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	13	13
Energy(?)	377	4887	4655	3200	5939	331	760	699	648	2059	2343	577	2452	1280	1155	1945	2335	2084	1419	1419	2665	2627
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	on	cross	off	off	glass	on	on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	on	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)					10:03PM 3.27												10:53AM 2.14
Low Tide / height (m)									1:36AM 0.28
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	light rain	some clouds	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	4	-	1	3	2
High °C	13	12	11	11	11	14	9	9	21	17	17	21	9	9	10	12	13	15	14	15	15	15
Chill °C (?)	12	10	9	9	9	12	7	7	21	16	16	21	6	6	7	10	11	13	12	14	13	13
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.4 S	-	-	-	3.0 W	1.4 SSW	1.6 SW	1.5 SW	1.6 SSW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	1.6 SSW	2.5 WSW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	2.2 W	2.2 W	2.2 WSW	2.2 WSW
Period (s)	9	-	-	-	12	7	13	13	10	11	11	10	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 E	-	-	-	-	0.5 ESE	-	-	0.5 E	-	1.1 SW	0.5 E	-	0.1 S	0.1 S	-	0.1 N	-	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	-	-
Period (s)	11	-	-	-	-	14	-	-	12	-	14	11	-	10	10	-	10	-	10	10	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	3.5 W	3.5 W	0.8 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 N	0.7 N	0.7 N	1.7 NW	1.7 NW	-	-	3.0 NW	3.0 NW
Period (s)	-	12	12	12	12	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	4	6	6	-	-	8	8

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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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