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

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Fri	Saturday 04			Sunday 05			Monday 06			Tuesday 07			Wednesday 08			Thursday 09			Friday 10
	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	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Okarito Beach West Coast South Island	Porridge Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Karioitahi Raglan and West Waikato	Baylys Beach Northland	Scott Point Northland	Aropaonui Hawkes Bay	Tuamotu Island Gisborne and Mahia	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Wainui Beach - Stockroute Gisborne and Mahia	Tora Point Wairarapa	Papatowai Catlins	Anaura Bay East Cape	Kaka Point Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Baylys Beach Northland	Herangi Beach Northland	Herangi Beach Northland	Herangi Beach Northland
Rating	4	3	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 WSW	1.6 WNW	2.3 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.6 W	1.6 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.8 SW	1.9 SW	1.2 E	1.8 ENE	0.9 SSW	2.3 ENE	2.5 ENE	1.3 SW	2.0 ENE	0.9 SSW	1.5 SW	1.0 SW	1.4 SW	1.1 SW	1.6 SW
Period(s) (?)	12	7	13	13	13	13	13	15	14	10	10	14	11	8	14	11	16	15	15	15	16	14
Energy(?)	884	476	1712	1969	884	1059	899	1421	1463	295	907	571	1663	1794	1049	991	649	1288	803	1177	1116	1161
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	glass	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	off	off	off	glass	off	cross	cross	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)	2:06AM 2.09	8:10AM 1.63		1:47AM 1.94		1:31PM 3.05	1:55AM 2.00		3:42PM 1.91	3:53AM 1.85		4:24PM 1.80	3:36AM 1.70		3:35PM 2.64	3:47AM 2.27		4:18PM 2.15	3:39AM 2.00		4:11PM 2.11
Low Tide / height (m)			2:47PM 0.17	7:42PM 0.36	7:57AM 0.39		7:50PM 0.30	9:31AM 0.39		9:51PM 0.55	10:12AM 0.51		9:31PM 0.60	9:17AM 0.73		9:37PM 0.82	10:08AM 0.86		9:15PM 0.78	9:58AM 0.88		10:44PM 1.26
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	heavy rain	heavy rain	cloudy	heavy rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	risk thund- der	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	56	15	-	13	-	-	-	-	9	-	2	-	-	1	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
High °C	16	15	12	14	17	18	16	19	19	15	18	15	17	21	18	18	14	12	17	19	19	18
Low °C	14	15	12	13	14	17	15	19	19	13	16	14	15	15	15	17	12	11	16	18	18	17
Chill °C (?)	15	15	11	13	17	18	15	18	18	15	17	13	16	21	18	18	12	10	17	19	19	18
Sunrise	-	7:58	-	-	7:54	-	-	7:41	-	-	7:26	-	-	7:39	-	-	8:07	-	-	7:47	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:32	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:17	-	-	7:19	-	-	7:19	-	-	7:16	-	-	7:13	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.7 WSW	1.6 WNW	2.3 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.6 W	1.6 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.8 SW	1.9 SW	1.2 E	1.2 E	0.9 SSW	1.4 E	2.2 ENE	1.6 ENE	2.0 ENE	1.2 E	1.5 SW	1.2 WSW	1.4 SW	1.1 SW	1.6 SW
Period (s)	12	7	13	13	13	13	13	15	14	10	10	14	8	8	9	11	10	15	12	15	16	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 N	0.9 WSW	-	0.7 N	0.6 N	0.7 W	0.4 WSW	-	0.8 NE	0.2 S	0.3 SSE	0.3 S	0.9 E	0.7 ENE	1.3 SW	0.2 NNE	0.9 SSW	1.4 ENE	1.0 SW	1.0 N	1.0 SW	0.8 N
Period (s)	10	12	-	6	5	16	16	-	11	11	11	9	11	12	14	11	16	10	15	11	13	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.2 NNE	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 ENE	0.7 ENE	-	-	1.8 ENE	1.5 E	2.3 ENE	2.5 ENE	-	1.4 N	0.4 SW	0.9 SW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	5	-	-	-	-	-	3	4	-	-	10	6	11	8	-	6	4	4	-	-	-	-

	Fri	Saturday 04								Sunday 05								Monday 06
	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Anaura Bay East Cape	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Okarito Beach West Coast South Island	Frentzes Southland	Beatons Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Karioitahi Raglan and West Waikato	Back Beach Taranaki
Rating	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.3 W	1.3 S	1.3 SSE	2.0 W	2.0 W	1.7 W	1.6 W	1.2 SW	2.2 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.6 W	1.7 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.4 SW	1.8 SW	1.6 WSW	1.2 WSW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	15	14	13	14	14	14	13	14	14	14	14	13	15	14	14
Energy(?)	1431	544	764	1257	1180	814	629	1195	3058	3170	3456	3768	3093	1011	1069	1257	1091	1060	1313	1561	1042	529
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	low	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)						12:57PM 3.15	1:07PM 2.10				2:40AM 2.03				1:31PM 3.05
Low Tide / height (m)	8:01PM 0.21		2:26AM 0.21		7:24AM 0.33				8:37PM 0.31				7:57AM 0.39				7:37PM 0.36			6:51AM 0.36
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	mod. rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	7	5	1	7	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	15	14	12	15	15	16	14	12	11	10	10	10	12	19	19	17	17	17	17	17	17	19
Chill °C (?)	14	13	11	15	15	16	13	11	10	8	8	8	10	19	19	17	17	17	16	16	16	19
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	8:03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:06	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:37	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:20	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.3 W	1.3 S	1.3 SSE	2.0 W	2.0 W	1.7 W	1.6 W	1.2 SW	2.2 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.6 W	1.7 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.4 SW	1.8 SW	1.6 WSW	1.2 WSW
Period (s)	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	15	14	13	14	14	14	13	14	14	14	14	13	15	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.8 NE	0.8 ENE	1.2 NNW	1.0 NNW	0.1 N	0.2 W	1.1 SW	1.7 W	-	-	-	0.9 NNE	0.6 N	0.6 N	0.9 N	1.1 N	1.0 N	1.1 SW	-	-	0.7 NNE
Period (s)	-	5	10	6	6	15	15	15	13	-	-	-	6	5	5	6	6	7	16	-	-	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.9 NNE	0.9 NE	-	-	-	0.5 N	-	-	-	-	-	1.0 NE	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	0.7 ENE	-
Period (s)	-	5	10	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	3	4	4	-

	Friday 03				Saturday 04
	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Anaura Bay East Cape	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Breakwater West Coast South Island	Okarito Beach West Coast South Island	Frentzes Southland	Beatons Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Porridge Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland	Karioitahi Raglan and West Waikato	Back Beach Taranaki
Rating	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.2 W	1.5 S	1.4 SSE	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.0 W	0.8 W	0.9 WSW	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 WSW	2.0 W	1.0 W	0.9 WSW	1.0 W	1.4 W	1.4 W	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 WSW
Period(s) (?)	12	13	13	13	12	10	9	12	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	13
Energy(?)	1301	813	786	819	807	220	239	344	1966	1763	1577	1452	1238	344	329	344	544	544	198	219	235	222
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	glass	cross	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross
High Tide / height (m)						12:40AM 3.18		2:06AM 2.09										12:52PM 2.83
Low Tide / height (m)													7:24AM 0.33
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	clear	mod. rain	heavy rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	9	12	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	2	1	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	17	15	14	14	15	14	13	12	12	12	12	11	15	17	16	17	17	17	21	21	19	18
Chill °C (?)	16	13	13	12	13	13	11	9	9	9	9	8	15	17	16	17	17	16	21	21	19	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.2 W	1.5 S	1.4 SSE	1.6 WSW	1.6 WSW	1.0 W	0.8 W	0.5 SW	-	-	-	-	2.0 W	1.0 W	1.2 WNW	1.0 W	1.4 W	1.4 W	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 WSW
Period (s)	12	13	13	13	12	10	9	14	-	-	-	-	12	12	6	12	12	12	11	11	11	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.4 ESE	0.1 N	0.1 W	0.1 N	0.2 WSW	0.6 W	0.1 S	-	-	-	-	1.2 NNW	0.8 WNW	0.9 WSW	0.8 WNW	-	-	0.4 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	-
Period (s)	-	10	15	18	10	14	11	11	-	-	-	-	6	5	12	5	-	-	15	14	14	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.0 NE	0.8 ENE	1.2 NNE	1.3 NNE	-	0.4 NNE	0.9 WSW	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.5 WSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 ENE	0.3 E	-	0.5 N
Period (s)	-	4	10	5	5	-	4	12	12	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	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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