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Kaikoura Coast · New Zealand

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Where to surf

MangamaunuAround 1:00 PM GMT+12

Looks good · Low confidence

5.4–5.4 ft · Offshore waves · not face height

Wind: 7.0 kt · offshore

Why this spot?
  • Wind blowing out to sea should help the waves stay clean.

Kaikoura Coast spots

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Kaikoura Coast

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Kaikoura Coast surf forecast
SpotBreaking surfOutlookBest next 4hWindTideHourly timeline
MangamaunuS offshore model swell · 4.5 ft @ 7s
UnavailableLooks goodLow confidenceAround 1:00 PMWSW 7 ktoffshoreUnavailableunavailable

Kaikoura Coast

1 spots

Mangamaunu

Unavailable

Offshore swell: S 4.5 ft @ 7s

Looks goodLow confidenceWhen to goAround 1:00 PM
WindWSW 7 ktoffshoreTideUnavailableunavailable
Hourly timeline
UUnavailable7.1Unavailable
UUnavailable7Unavailable
UUnavailable7.5Unavailable
UUnavailable7Unavailable
Open hourly forecast

Seven-day outlook

DaySurfBest periodWhereWind
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 5.5–12 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 1–6.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0–4.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0.5–3 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 1.5–10 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 1.5–7.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 1.5–8 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 identifies a Kaikoura buoy, but its checked public list and buoy-data response were empty. The Banks Peninsula buoy is 150+ km south and is not substituted for Mangamaunu.
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
Current