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	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury	Anaura Bay East Cape	Dunedin - Bobs Beach Otago	Bluecliffs Southland	Wainui Reef Wanganui-Manawatu	Beatons Southland	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Arrawarra NSW - North Coast	Anna Bay-Morna Point NSW - Newcastle	Tora Point Wairarapa	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough	Papatowai Catlins	Gnarlies Wairarapa	Dunedin - Cob Cottage Otago	Mangamaunu Kaikoura and Marlborough
Rating	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	3	6	5	4	8	4	4	4	4	9	5	5	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.9 WSW	4.0 ENE	3.0 ENE	3.0 E	1.8 NE	2.2 ENE	0.2 SSW	1.0 SW	3.5 W	3.0 WSW	1.7 S	4.0 S	3.0 S	2.3 SSW	1.6 S	5.0 SW	3.5 SSW	1.9 S	2.3 SSW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	18	18	11	10	11	8	10	12	8	11	12	10	13	12	8	10	12	13	11	12
Energy(?)	2178	1046	1208	906	5071	1926	2123	530	1051	14	189	4062	2287	620	7308	2826	841	513	7149	4102	870	1480
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross	off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross- off	off	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	10:43AM 1.59	1:04PM 2.57	1:26AM 2.93	11:26AM 1.55		11:39PM 1.52		12:16PM 1.55	12:28AM 1.52			6:34PM 1.57	11:42AM 1.63
Low Tide / height (m)			8:05PM 0.27	7:32AM 0.36		7:06PM 0.35	7:26AM 0.38		7:43PM 0.49	4:32AM 0.24		7:27PM 0.95	5:13AM 0.29	5:33PM 0.40		5:55AM 0.35		6:25PM 0.49	5:54AM 0.49		1:07AM 0.77	5:13AM 0.49
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	rain shwrs	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	1	4	1	-	-	-	-	4	2	2	-	8	-
High °C	11	10	10	15	14	12	14	15	15	8	9	11	9	15	11	14	8	8	7	13	4	11
Low °C	8	10	8	11	13	9	12	13	14	8	7	9	7	13	8	11	6	6	5	12	3	8
Chill °C (?)	11	9	9	14	12	10	13	13	13	5	6	8	6	13	9	13	4	5	2	10	-1	10
Sunrise	7:31	-	-	6:50	-	-	6:37	-	-	7:15	-	-	7:22	-	-	6:11	-	-	7:13	-	-	6:50
Sunset	-	6:01	-	-	5:43	-	-	5:54	-	-	6:15	-	-	5:30	-	-	5:51	-	-	5:52	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.9 NNE	3.0 ENE	3.0 E	1.8 NE	2.2 ENE	0.9 ENE	1.0 SW	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	0.4 ESE	2.5 SSE	3.0 S	0.6 ENE	1.6 S	0.3 ENE	3.5 SSW	0.1 S	0.6 N
Period (s)	13	13	18	18	12	10	11	8	10	12	8	11	12	10	13	12	10	10	10	13	24	6
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.2 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.8 WSW	-	0.4 E	0.4 SSW	0.5 NE	0.2 S	0.8 ENE	0.4 WSW	-	-	-	0.4 E	0.2 E	0.3 SSW	0.2 ENE	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	18	20	13	14	-	13	10	12	10	8	12	-	-	-	11	11	16	10	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.5 ESE	4.0 ENE	-	-	0.7 NNW	0.7 N	0.6 W	0.4 WNW	3.5 W	-	1.7 S	4.0 S	-	2.3 SSW	-	5.0 SW	0.7 NW	1.9 S	2.3 SSW
Period (s)	-	-	-	3	11	-	-	4	4	3	3	11	-	10	13	-	8	-	12	4	11	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	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	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	Papatea Bay East Cape	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Back Beach Taranaki	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury
Rating	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WSW	1.9 SSW	2.4 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.3 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.5 WSW	4.0 NE	1.5 WSW	1.4 WSW	4.0 ENE	4.0 ENE	4.0 ENE	3.5 NE	2.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	2.3 E	2.1 ENE	2.3 W	2.3 NE
Period(s) (?)	13	18	17	18	17	18	17	18	16	11	17	16	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12
Energy(?)	2178	3185	4304	3002	3043	1208	1169	1029	1064	4026	1238	1016	3751	3881	3533	3141	1842	1587	1253	1037	1300	1406
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	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	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)			1:57PM 2.05				12:38AM 2.83			9:18AM 1.65				9:36PM 1.70				10:06AM 1.68
Low Tide / height (m)	7:49AM 0.17	10:03AM 0.24			7:12PM 0.35				6:52AM 0.25							3:52AM 0.20				3:04PM 0.22
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	some clouds	clear	light rain	light rain	light rain	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	8	11	12	9	8	9	9	11	9	12	17	13	14	14	14	14	12	16	17	14	10	11
Chill °C (?)	6	10	12	9	7	8	8	10	9	10	17	12	13	14	14	14	10	15	17	12	8	10
Sunrise	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:43	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:42	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WSW	1.9 SSW	2.4 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.3 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.5 WSW	-	1.5 WSW	1.4 WSW	4.0 ENE	4.0 ENE	4.0 ENE	3.5 NE	2.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	2.3 E	2.1 ENE	-	2.3 NE
Period (s)	13	18	17	18	17	18	17	14	16	-	17	16	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	-	12
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 N	0.8 N	0.3 S	0.2 S	-	0.1 S
Period (s)	18	13	17	-	11	13	13	18	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	10	10	9	-	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4.0 NE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 WSW	0.8 WSW	-	0.8 WNW	2.3 W	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	4	-	4	11	-

	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	Smoothwater Bay West Coast South Island	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	Papatea Bay East Cape	Raglan-Indicators Raglan and West Waikato	Back Beach Taranaki	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Papatea Bay East Cape	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Whangamata Bar Coromandel	Blacks Reef Gisborne and Mahia	Akito River Mouth and Reef Wairarapa	Beatons Southland	Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay Canterbury
Rating	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WSW	1.2 SSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.4 NE	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	1.7 NE	1.8 NE	2.3 ENE	2.5 ENE	0.3 S	0.4 SSW	2.0 WSW	0.4 SSW
Period(s) (?)	13	19	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	7	13	13	7	7	7	8	8	8	15	13	16	17
Energy(?)	2055	1646	2178	2096	2085	845	963	686	1046	186	606	732	249	279	313	405	683	828	61	106	1919	158
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	on	on	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)							12:23PM 2.78								8:55PM 1.74						2:11AM 2.06
Low Tide / height (m)												5:40PM 0.48								1:58AM 0.18
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	8	10	8	8	9	10	10	14	10	15	14	13	11	11	12	12	13	13	11	9	6	9
Chill °C (?)	6	8	6	8	8	9	9	14	9	14	13	12	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	7	3	7
Sunrise	-	7:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WSW	1.2 SSW	1.9 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.7 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.1 NE	1.1 WSW	1.1 WSW	0.2 E	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	-	-	0.3 S	0.4 SSW	2.0 WSW	0.5 SSW
Period (s)	13	19	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	10	13	13	10	10	10	10	-	-	15	13	16	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.1 WSW	1.0 SW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	0.6 W	0.7 WSW	0.5 W	0.8 WSW	0.1 NE	0.4 WSW	0.6 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 S	0.2 E	-	0.4 SSW
Period (s)	19	12	18	19	19	21	20	21	20	10	21	21	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	10	-	17
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.7 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 NE	0.3 ESE	-	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	1.7 NE	1.8 NE	2.3 ENE	2.5 ENE	0.7 NE	0.8 NE	-	0.6 NE
Period (s)	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	3	-	7	7	7	8	8	8	4	5	-	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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