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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Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Wed	Thursday 08			Friday 09			Saturday 10			Sunday 11			Monday 12			Tuesday 13			Wednesday 14
	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	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	North Broulee NSW - Far South	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Woodpecker Bay West Coast South Island	Beatons Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Haast Beach West Coast South Island	The Box Northland	Scott Point Northland	Scott Point Northland	Saltwater NSW - Port Macquarie	Shag Beach Otago	Lyall Bay Wellington	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Papatowai Catlins	Scott Point Northland	Bluecliffs Southland	Nicks Point Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Kaka Point Catlins
Rating	3	4	3	4	2	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	2.1 NE	1.4 WSW	1.3 WSW	2.5 WSW	1.3 WSW	3.0 WNW	1.6 SW	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	1.9 S	2.3 SSW	2.1 S	1.2 S	3.0 SW	2.1 SW	0.9 SW	2.2 W	2.1 SW	2.2 SW	1.5 SSW
Period(s) (?)	10	12	7	13	13	16	15	8	12	11	14	8	12	14	17	10	12	10	10	12	14	14
Energy(?)	366	784	390	810	630	3330	1387	1483	1238	942	821	537	1398	1781	917	1837	1221	190	1075	1270	1850	908
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross	on	on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross	off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	glass	off	off
High Tide / height (m)			3:08PM 2.79		5:17AM 1.93	5:34PM 1.90		6:05AM 1.83		9:23PM 1.64	9:50AM 1.62			6:15AM 2.49	6:45PM 2.13		8:46AM 1.63		9:29PM 1.65	7:29AM 2.56		7:37PM 2.78
Low Tide / height (m)	11:46PM 0.32	8:57AM 0.30		12:36AM 0.45	11:27AM 0.42		11:53PM 0.40	12:19PM 0.52	3:12PM 0.40	3:38AM 0.45		4:06PM 0.46	12:41AM 0.75	12:32PM 1.10		1:05AM 1.40		3:16PM 0.66	3:43AM 0.72		3:15PM 0.81	1:57AM 1.10
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	heavy rain	light rain	some clouds	heavy rain	heavy rain	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	1	-	-	55	3	-	43	36	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	7	1
High °C	15	19	33	16	18	15	13	17	21	20	21	23	11	17	19	13	22	18	14	16	13	11
Low °C	13	15	30	14	17	15	12	15	21	19	21	22	10	16	18	10	21	17	13	13	11	9
Chill °C (?)	14	19	33	16	18	13	12	16	21	20	21	23	7	17	19	11	22	18	12	16	13	9
Sunrise	-	6:07	-	-	6:09	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:26	-	-	6:01	-	-	6:28	-	-	6:05	-	-
Sunset	-	-	8:19	-	-	9:42	-	-	8:45	-	-	7:59	-	-	8:37	-	-	9:40	-	-	9:34	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	0.1 NE	1.4 WSW	1.3 WSW	-	1.4 NW	0.8 WSW	1.6 SW	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	0.9 ENE	0.5 NE	2.1 S	1.2 S	0.9 SSE	2.1 SW	0.9 SW	0.1 SW	2.1 SW	2.2 SW	1.5 SSW
Period (s)	10	12	14	13	13	-	8	14	12	11	14	8	9	14	17	10	12	10	19	12	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.4 N	0.3 WSW	-	1.3 WSW	0.2 N	1.0 SW	1.0 SW	0.5 N	0.1 S	-	0.4 NW	0.8 SSW	-	0.5 N	0.4 WSW	-	0.3 SE	0.3 SE	0.1 SE
Period (s)	-	-	-	12	18	-	15	13	16	15	11	12	-	7	10	-	10	11	-	9	9	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.9 W	-	2.1 NE	1.1 NW	0.5 NW	2.5 WSW	-	3.0 WNW	-	-	-	1.9 S	2.3 SSW	-	0.7 ESE	3.0 SW	-	0.4 WSW	2.2 W	-	-	0.4 ENE
Period (s)	5	-	7	6	5	16	-	8	-	-	-	8	12	-	3	10	-	3	10	-	-	3

	Wed	Thursday 08								Friday 09								Saturday 10
	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	Colac Bay Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Woodpecker Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland
Rating	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 W	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	2.1 WSW	2.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	1.6 W	2.5 W	1.3 WSW	2.2 WSW	1.8 WSW	3.5 WNW	1.6 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	11	11	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	13	13	8	8	15	14	12	9	12
Energy(?)	351	244	229	748	784	907	1326	1416	1051	930	1083	2304	1618	586	758	586	1164	1258	1992	1171	2707	1062
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)			2:49AM 2.71	5:51AM 2.37				4:44PM 2.04	7:30PM 1.82							4:07PM 3.01
Low Tide / height (m)						10:37AM 0.32					1:49AM 0.25							11:53PM 0.40
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	rain shwrs	light rain	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	some clouds	heavy rain	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	1	-	2	2	-	-	-	1	6	-	24	-
Temp. °C	15	15	15	14	15	19	16	18	19	17	15	14	16	17	19	18	15	12	11	17	15	22
Chill °C (?)	14	14	14	13	15	19	16	18	19	16	14	12	16	17	19	18	15	11	9	16	15	22
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:14	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.1 S	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.1 NW	0.9 WSW	1.7 W	0.6 WSW	0.9 SW	2.0 W	2.2 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.6 SW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	7	13	7	12	8	8	14	12	14	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	0.4 NNW	0.4 NNW	0.5 WSW	-	-	0.9 SW	0.1 SW	0.7 NE	0.4 ENE	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 WSW	0.7 NW	1.0 WSW	0.5 W	0.8 SW	1.3 WSW	-	0.7 WSW	0.4 NNE	0.8 SW
Period (s)	8	13	13	13	-	-	15	20	5	5	18	18	18	6	13	17	15	15	-	16	13	16
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.1 NE	0.5 WNW	-	2.1 WSW	2.0 WSW	1.2 W	-	1.6 W	2.5 W	-	-	-	3.5 WNW	-
Period (s)	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	3	-	12	12	7	-	8	8	-	-	-	9	-

	Wednesday 07				Thursday 08
	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	Colac Bay Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Nicks Point Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Shingles West Coast South Island	Woodpecker Bay West Coast South Island	Cobden Beach - The Channel West Coast South Island	Bluecliffs Southland	Beatons Southland	Beatons Southland	Anawhata Road (Oaonui) Taranaki	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Shipwrecks Bay-Peaks Northland
Rating	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 W	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.3 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.6 SSW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.1 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	10	11	11	10	15	12	12	7	12	12
Energy(?)	359	213	213	338	375	366	423	477	243	243	426	426	475	227	223	203	298	907	954	319	634	305
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross	cross- on	glass	glass	glass	on	cross- on	off
High Tide / height (m)																				2:08PM 3.15	3:55PM 1.98
Low Tide / height (m)		8:41PM 0.16													9:04AM 0.31
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	light rain	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
High °C	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	17	18	18	20	19	16	18	14	20
Chill °C (?)	15	14	15	14	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	15	17	18	18	20	19	16	17	14	20
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	9:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.1 S	0.8 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.3 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.8 WSW	0.7 SW	1.8 WSW	1.8 WSW	0.7 SW	1.4 WSW	1.1 SW
Period (s)	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	10	11	11	10	12	12	12	11	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	0.4 NNW	0.4 NNW	-	-	-	-	0.1 NW	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.6 N	0.4 NNW	0.4 N	0.4 NNW	0.6 SSW	-	-	0.2 NNW	0.5 N	0.1 NW
Period (s)	8	13	13	-	-	-	-	7	9	9	9	9	13	13	13	13	15	-	-	14	12	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 W	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.9 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.5 WSW	-	0.9 SSW
Period (s)	10	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	5

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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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