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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	Tuesday 26			Wednesday 27			Thursday 28			Friday 29			Saturday 30			Sunday 31			Monday 01			Tue
	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	Beatons Southland	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Papatea Bay East Cape	Tokomaru Bay East Cape	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Blackhead Wairarapa	Anaura Bay East Cape	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Papatowai Catlins	Porridge Southland	Beatons Southland	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Lennox Head NSW - North Coast	Anna Bay-Morna Point NSW - Newcastle	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Bluecliffs Southland	Papatowai Catlins	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Castlepoint - Slippery Wairarapa
Rating	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	3	3	5	5	4	7	5	4	4	4	6	5	5	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.9 WSW	4.0 NE	4.5 ENE	2.5 E	2.3 ENE	2.4 ENE	0.3 SW	2.5 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.3 S	3.0 S	3.5 S	1.8 SSW	2.2 S	5.0 WSW	4.5 SW	4.0 W	2.1 SSW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	18	18	11	11	11	11	11	12	7	14	13	10	12	13	7	12	12	11	13	12
Energy(?)	2178	1046	1208	906	4368	4775	1857	1319	1279	22	908	5879	3048	357	2290	4401	478	1342	7625	4355	4872	1191
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- on	off	cross	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		4:16PM 2.11	2:11AM 2.06		1:36PM 1.90	1:12AM 2.70		12:36PM 3.15	1:48AM 2.55		1:04PM 2.57	1:18AM 2.49	11:58AM 2.20		11:39PM 1.52	11:17AM 1.34		11:56PM 1.34		1:05PM 1.51	11:13PM 1.51
Low Tide / height (m)			8:05PM 0.27	8:25AM 0.27		7:06PM 0.35	7:26AM 0.38		7:43PM 0.49	6:59AM 0.49		7:17PM 0.65	5:49AM 0.84	5:33PM 0.40		5:08AM 0.30	5:54PM 0.37		5:54AM 0.49			6:30AM 0.33
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	light rain	heavy rain	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	4	19	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	6	2	1	4	4	-
High °C	11	10	10	15	14	14	14	16	15	8	9	6	9	15	13	14	6	8	7	7	7	11
Low °C	8	10	8	11	13	13	12	14	14	8	6	6	7	13	10	11	5	6	6	5	5	8
Chill °C (?)	11	9	9	14	12	12	13	15	13	5	5	2	6	13	11	13	1	5	4	4	2	8
Sunrise	7:31	-	-	6:50	-	-	6:37	-	-	7:15	-	-	7:22	-	-	6:11	-	-	7:20	-	-	6:37
Sunset	-	6:01	-	-	5:43	-	-	5:45	-	-	6:07	-	-	5:30	-	-	5:58	-	-	6:10	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.9 WSW	4.0 NE	0.3 S	2.5 E	2.3 ENE	2.4 ENE	1.3 ENE	1.0 ENE	3.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	1.3 S	0.5 E	3.5 S	0.5 ENE	2.2 S	2.3 SSW	0.2 ENE	0.2 WSW	0.1 S
Period (s)	13	13	18	18	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	14	13	10	11	13	10	12	12	10	24	24
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.2 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.8 WSW	-	0.2 S	0.4 SSW	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.3 SW	-	1.5 W	1.2 W	0.3 E	-	0.2 E	0.4 SSW	0.2 ENE	-	0.2 SSW	0.2 WSW	-
Period (s)	18	20	13	14	-	16	10	10	10	12	-	13	12	10	-	11	16	10	-	24	24	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.5 ESE	-	4.5 ENE	-	-	-	0.3 W	2.5 WSW	-	-	0.5 WSW	3.0 S	-	1.8 SSW	-	5.0 WSW	4.5 SW	4.0 W	2.1 SSW
Period (s)	-	-	-	3	-	11	-	-	-	2	7	-	-	4	12	-	7	-	12	11	13	12

	Tuesday 26					Wednesday 27								Thursday 28								Fri
	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Dinner Plates Catlins	Beatons Southland	Porridge Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Back Beach Taranaki	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	The Ledge Northland	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Cray Bay Hawkes Bay	Tokomaru Bay East Cape	Three Points East Cape	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Blackhead Wairarapa
Rating	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WSW	1.9 SSW	2.4 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.3 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	3.5 E	3.5 NE	4.0 ENE	3.5 NE	3.5 ENE	3.5 ENE	2.4 E	2.4 ENE	2.3 NE	2.1 ENE
Period(s) (?)	13	18	17	16	17	18	17	18	16	17	17	16	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Energy(?)	2178	3185	4304	3217	3043	1208	1169	1059	1064	1069	1238	1109	3990	3600	3317	4283	3397	3073	1495	1379	1200	1062
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	off	off	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	high	high
High Tide / height (m)			1:57PM 2.05				12:38AM 2.83			11:52AM 2.82				9:36PM 1.70				9:29AM 1.46			7:40PM 1.64	9:17PM 1.36
Low Tide / height (m)	7:49AM 0.17	10:03AM 0.24			7:12PM 0.35				6:52AM 0.25											4:15PM 0.30
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	8	11	12	11	8	9	9	11	9	15	17	15	12	14	14	12	14	16	17	14	12	13
Chill °C (?)	6	10	12	11	7	8	8	10	9	14	17	15	10	14	14	12	14	16	17	12	11	12
Sunrise	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:35	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:42	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WSW	1.9 SSW	2.4 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.3 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.5 WSW	1.5 WSW	3.5 E	3.5 NE	4.0 ENE	2.5 ENE	3.5 ENE	3.5 ENE	2.4 E	2.4 ENE	2.3 NE	2.1 ENE
Period (s)	13	18	17	16	17	18	17	14	16	17	17	16	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.2 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.3 WSW	-	0.3 N	1.1 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.7 N	0.8 WSW	-	-	2.5 ENE	1.7 E	-	0.3 S	0.3 S	0.3 S	0.3 S	0.5 N	0.1 S	0.2 S
Period (s)	18	13	17	-	11	13	13	18	11	12	-	-	11	10	-	10	10	10	10	9	13	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	3.5 NE	-	-	-	0.5 WNW	-	0.6 NW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	3	-	4

	Tuesday 26																	Wednesday 27
	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM
Best forecast wave conditions in New Zealand	Beatons Southland	Dinner Plates Catlins	Beatons Southland	Porridge Southland	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Back Beach Taranaki	Tauranga Bay West Coast South Island	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	The Ledge Northland	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Cray Bay Hawkes Bay	Tokomaru Bay East Cape	Three Points East Cape	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Blackhead Wairarapa
Rating	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WSW	1.2 SSW	1.9 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	3.0 NE	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	0.7 NE	1.1 NE	1.2 NE	0.3 S	2.5 ENE	0.4 SSW	0.4 SSW
Period(s) (?)	13	19	13	18	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	10	7	7	5	7	7	15	9	17	13
Energy(?)	2055	1646	2178	2255	2085	845	963	686	1046	500	606	606	1961	279	287	55	123	162	54	1012	158	102
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	on	on	off	on	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)							12:23PM 2.78								8:55PM 1.74
Low Tide / height (m)												5:29PM 0.21
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
High °C	8	10	8	9	9	10	10	14	10	15	14	13	13	11	12	12	12	12	11	12	9	9
Chill °C (?)	6	8	6	7	8	9	9	14	9	14	13	12	10	9	10	10	11	10	10	9	7	8
Sunrise	-	7:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WSW	1.2 SSW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	3.0 NE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 S	0.3 NE	0.3 NE	0.3 S	-	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW
Period (s)	13	19	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	10	10	10	15	9	9	15	-	10	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.1 WSW	1.0 SW	1.2 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.6 W	0.7 WSW	0.5 W	0.8 WSW	0.3 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WSW	-	-	-	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.3 NE	-	0.4 SSW	0.2 E
Period (s)	19	12	18	18	19	21	20	21	20	21	21	21	-	-	-	9	16	16	6	-	17	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 E	0.3 E	-	1.9 E	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	0.7 NE	1.1 NE	1.2 NE	0.7 ENE	2.5 ENE	0.6 NE	0.8 NE
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	8	7	7	5	7	7	4	9	4	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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