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St Clair DunedinAround 3:00 PM GMT+12

Strong wind — difficult conditions · Low confidence

4.7–4.7 ft · Offshore waves · not face height

Strong wind: 11.4 kt · cross-shore

Cautions
  • Strong wind or gusts up to 27.8 kt can make the session difficult; being first in the list does not make conditions good.
Why this spot?
  • This is the best time in the forecast, though wind may make it choppy.

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Dunedin Coast surf forecast
SpotBreaking surfOutlookBest next 4hWindTideHourly timeline
St Clair DunedinS offshore model swell · 3.3 ft @ 7s
UnavailableStrong wind — difficult conditionsLow confidenceAround 3:00 PMWSW 11.9 ktcross-shoreUnavailableunavailable

Dunedin Coast

1 spots

St Clair Dunedin

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Offshore swell: S 3.3 ft @ 7s

Strong wind — difficult conditionsLow confidenceWhen to goAround 3:00 PM
WindWSW 11.9 ktcross-shoreTideUnavailableunavailable
Hourly timeline
UUnavailable12.2Unavailable
UUnavailable11.9Unavailable
UUnavailable11.7Unavailable
UUnavailable11.4Unavailable
Open hourly forecast

Seven-day outlook

DaySurfBest periodWhereWind
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 4.5–12.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 2.5–10.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0.5–7.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 2–13.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 10–14 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 12.5–18.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 4–15.5 kt varying direction
Forecast sources 2/6 current

Coastal waves, offshore swell, and surf height describe different conditions. Source availability does not measure forecast accuracy.

Report or official forecast

MetService New Zealand Surf Forecasts

The checked MetService public marine/surf response exposes an HTML application shell but no stable named-spot payload, timestamp schema, units, or update contract; no forecast is scraped.
UnavailableNo source time

Wave observation

New Zealand Regional Wave Buoy Pages

South Island Waves advertises South Island coverage, but its checked public list returned no active observations and no Dunedin station response could be verified. Canterbury and northern buoys are not substituted for St Clair.
UnavailableNo source time

Tide prediction

NIWA Tide Forecasting API

NIWA tide requests require an API key; no credential bypass is attempted and no station, datum, timezone, or current value is available.
UnavailableNo source time

Tide prediction

LINZ Tide Predictions and Sea-Level Data

LINZ is retained as an official tide-table reference, but no spot-specific station, distance, chart datum, timezone, and current response is connected.
UnavailableNo source time

Forecast model

Open-Meteo Marine API

1 of 1 configured model points available
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