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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	Mon	Tuesday 17			Wednesday 18			Thursday 19			Friday 20			Saturday 21			Sunday 22			Monday 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	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Port Robinson Canterbury	All Day Bay Otago	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Kaka Point Catlins	Dinner Plates Catlins	Anaura Bay East Cape	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	Porridge Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland	Mukerau Beach Northland	Nicks Point Southland	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Baylys Beach Northland	Baylys Beach Northland
Rating	4	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	2	4	7	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.2 E	2.1 ESE	2.5 SE	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.7 SSW	0.9 ESE	0.8 SE	0.5 ESE	1.0 E	1.6 E	2.1 W	4.5 WSW	3.5 SW	1.4 S	2.1 SW	2.4 SW	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.6 W	1.8 SW	1.9 SW
Period(s) (?)	11	11	11	11	10	16	12	11	11	13	11	8	13	13	6	14	13	9	13	13	13	14
Energy(?)	2423	1320	2123	955	1846	1959	308	166	127	538	653	987	6245	4858	238	1761	2596	1742	2643	926	1089	1363
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	cross- off	cross	off	on	off	cross- on	glass	cross	glass	cross- on	cross- on	off	cross- on	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	glass
High Tide / height (m)		5:37AM 1.39	5:42PM 1.37		6:08AM 1.51	6:27PM 1.39		5:03AM 1.80	5:03PM 1.78		5:42AM 2.42	5:45PM 1.78		6:23AM 2.41	6:45PM 2.41			6:47PM 2.12		11:18AM 1.59
Low Tide / height (m)	10:55PM 0.69	11:58AM 0.25		11:50PM 0.19	12:26PM 0.22		12:30AM 0.18	11:17AM 0.21		11:41PM 0.15	11:54AM 0.71		10:08PM 0.12	12:39PM 0.74		10:52PM 0.21	10:11AM 0.23		11:41PM 0.33	5:12AM 0.14	5:39PM 0.09	11:31PM 0.43
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	heavy rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	15	15	14	11	15	15	18	20	20	17	20	15	12	13	16	16	19	14	13	16	20	19
Low °C	13	14	14	11	13	14	15	19	20	14	18	14	9	10	16	15	18	14	10	15	20	17
Chill °C (?)	14	13	12	9	14	14	18	20	20	17	20	13	9	11	16	15	19	11	11	16	20	19
Sunrise	-	6:48	-	-	6:58	-	-	6:39	-	-	6:52	-	-	7:03	-	-	7:05	-	-	7:05	-	-
Sunset	-	-	8:45	-	-	8:53	-	-	8:24	-	-	8:45	-	-	8:01	-	-	8:51	-	-	8:10	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.2 E	2.1 ESE	2.5 SE	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.7 SSW	0.9 ESE	0.8 SE	0.6 S	1.0 E	1.6 E	1.0 WSW	-	3.5 SW	0.5 E	2.1 SW	2.4 SW	-	3.0 WSW	1.6 W	1.8 SW	1.9 SW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	10	16	12	11	7	13	11	13	-	13	9	14	13	-	13	13	13	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.3 SE	0.5 ESE	0.4 SE	1.1 SW	1.0 SSW	1.2 ESE	0.6 ENE	0.8 ENE	0.5 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.6 S	0.2 N	-	0.8 E	0.5 S	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	-	-	0.2 NNW	0.1 NW	-
Period (s)	10	14	12	11	18	9	8	11	11	11	5	11	-	11	10	7	16	-	-	8	8	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	2.3 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 S	-	2.1 W	4.5 WSW	-	1.4 S	-	-	3.5 WSW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	8	8	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	8	13	-	6	-	-	9	-	-	-	-

	Mon	Tuesday 17								Wednesday 18								Thursday 19
	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	Airport Rights Wellington	Kekerengu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Port Robinson Canterbury	Otago Peninsula - Long Beach Otago	Dunedin - Blue Tops Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Kaka Point Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Beatons Southland	Dinner Plates Catlins	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Beatons Southland
Rating	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.3 SW	2.1 SSW	2.1 SSW	1.7 ESE	2.5 ESE	2.5 SE	2.1 SE	1.7 E	2.2 SE	2.1 SW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.9 SW	1.5 WSW	1.4 SSW	1.5 SW	1.4 NE	1.4 NE	1.6 W
Period(s) (?)	9	8	8	8	8	8	10	11	11	10	11	10	17	17	16	16	16	16	15	10	10	14
Energy(?)	3120	3545	2395	1834	1468	1320	1146	1757	2467	1286	1468	1069	3210	1592	1410	2217	1134	1175	1159	640	682	1059
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	glass	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	glass
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-flow	high	low	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-flow	high	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)				5:24AM 1.50								4:09AM 1.83							3:06AM 2.25		8:14AM 1.54
Low Tide / height (m)		11:18PM 0.23				11:41AM 0.25			9:54PM 0.15	10:14PM 0.17			8:31AM 0.26	10:33AM 0.74			7:54PM 0.08	10:01PM 0.13
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	some clouds
Rain (mm)	3	2	2	1	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	13	14	15	15	16	14	12	11	14	11	11	12	15	15	14	13	12	13	15	20	16
Chill °C (?)	13	12	12	14	15	16	12	10	9	13	9	10	11	14	14	14	12	11	12	15	20	16
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:56	7:03	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:59	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 SSW	2.4 SSW	1.8 E	1.6 SSW	1.6 SE	1.5 SE	1.7 ESE	2.5 ESE	2.5 SE	2.1 SE	1.7 SE	2.2 SE	2.1 SW	1.9 SE	1.8 SE	1.9 SW	1.5 WSW	1.4 SSW	1.5 SW	1.4 NE	1.4 NE	0.1 SE
Period (s)	9	9	11	8	10	10	10	11	11	10	9	10	17	9	9	16	16	16	15	10	10	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.2 SE	2.0 E	1.8 SSW	1.5 E	1.4 SSW	1.3 S	1.1 S	0.2 S	0.2 SSW	0.1 S	1.7 E	0.4 SSW	1.3 SE	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.5 ESE	0.2 SSE	1.0 SSE	1.2 ESE	0.9 ESE	0.9 ESE	-
Period (s)	10	11	8	11	8	8	8	14	11	21	11	19	9	17	16	9	9	8	8	11	12	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	3.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.3 SW	2.1 SSW	2.1 SSW	1.6 SSW	0.2 SSW	2.3 SSE	1.8 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.9 SSW	-	1.6 W
Period (s)	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	11	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	14

	Monday 16				Tuesday 17
	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	Airport Rights Wellington	Kekerengu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Port Robinson Canterbury	Otago Peninsula - Long Beach Otago	Dunedin - Blue Tops Otago	All Day Bay Otago	Cannibal Bay Catlins	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Kaka Point Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Beatons Southland	Dinner Plates Catlins	Stewart Island - Saber Reef Southland	Anaura Bay East Cape	Anaura Bay East Cape	Beatons Southland
Rating	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	4.0 SSW	2.5 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	2.4 E	2.2 E	2.5 E	2.5 ESE	2.5 E	1.8 E	2.2 E	2.5 ESE	1.8 ESE	2.3 ESE	2.3 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.2 WSW	2.1 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	1.1 SW
Period(s) (?)	9	12	12	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	13	12	12	12	11	12	12	12	12	11
Energy(?)	2928	3457	3309	2728	2763	2423	2647	2032	2137	1178	1786	2084	1188	1821	1828	1453	436	1691	1058	515	485	435
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)									3:33AM 1.81
Low Tide / height (m)					11:04PM 0.22								7:55AM 0.34		9:56AM 0.79
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	1	-	2	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	12	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	23	24	13
Chill °C (?)	14	13	11	11	11	11	10	10	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	8	11	10	10	23	24	12
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:54	7:03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	8:23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 SE	2.5 E	3.0 E	2.5 E	2.4 E	2.2 E	2.5 E	2.5 ESE	2.5 E	1.8 E	2.2 E	2.5 ESE	1.3 WSW	2.3 ESE	2.3 ESE	1.2 SW	1.2 WSW	2.1 ESE	1.2 WSW	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	1.1 SW
Period (s)	10	12	12	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	11	11	12	11	12	12	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 ESE	1.3 SE	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	1.3 SE	1.3 SE	1.5 SE	0.3 ESE	0.4 SSW	1.6 SE	0.6 SW	0.5 SE	0.5 SW	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SW	0.4 SW	0.7 SW	0.4 ESE	0.7 E	0.6 E	0.4 SW
Period (s)	12	10	15	15	10	10	10	14	12	7	12	13	15	13	13	15	15	11	13	8	8	22
Wind waves (m) & direction	4.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.3 SSW	2.1 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.7 SW	0.8 SW	1.3 SE	1.7 SSE	1.8 ESE	1.6 SSE	1.6 SSE	1.8 ESE	0.6 SE	1.6 SE	1.8 ESE	0.5 NNE	0.6 NNE	0.6 SE
Period (s)	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	12	12	5	6	7	13	7	7	12	4	7	12	4	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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