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Wellington South Coast · New Zealand

Today

Where to surf

Lyall Bay5:00 PM–6:00 PM GMT+12

Strong wind — difficult conditions · Low confidence

7.7–7.8 ft · Offshore waves · not face height

Strong wind: 17.3 kt · onshore

Cautions
  • Strong wind or gusts up to 38.1 kt can make the session difficult; being first in the list does not make conditions good.
  • Strong wind or gusts up to 36.9 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.

Wellington South Coast spots

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Wellington South Coast surf forecast
SpotBreaking surfOutlookBest remainingWindTideHourly timeline
Lyall BayS offshore model swell · 4.6 ft @ 8s
UnavailableStrong wind — difficult conditionsLow confidence5:00 PM–6:00 PMS 17.9 ktonshoreUnavailableunavailable

Wellington South Coast

1 spots

Lyall Bay

Unavailable

Offshore swell: S 4.6 ft @ 8s

Strong wind — difficult conditionsLow confidenceWhen to go5:00 PM–6:00 PM
WindS 17.9 ktonshoreTideUnavailableunavailable
Hourly timeline
UUnavailable7.5Unavailable
UUnavailable3.3Unavailable
UUnavailable19.1Unavailable
UUnavailable21.4Unavailable
UUnavailable19.8Unavailable
UUnavailable19.1Unavailable
UUnavailable17.8Unavailable
UUnavailable17Unavailable
UUnavailable18.1Unavailable
UUnavailable18.2Unavailable
UUnavailable17Unavailable
UUnavailable17.5Unavailable
UUnavailable17.9Unavailable
UUnavailable17.9Unavailable
UUnavailable17.4Unavailable
UUnavailable17.9Unavailable
UUnavailable17.8Unavailable
UUnavailable17.3Unavailable
UUnavailable17.3Unavailable
UUnavailable17.5Unavailable
UUnavailable16.6Unavailable
UUnavailable16.4Unavailable
UUnavailable16.2Unavailable
UUnavailable15.8Unavailable
Open hourly forecast

Seven-day outlook

DaySurfBest periodWhereWind
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 3.5–21.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 3.5–15 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0.5–13 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 1–18.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 6–26 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 2–12.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 1–5 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 lists a Lyall Bay device identity, but its checked public list and device response returned no current observation. Wellington Harbour WRIBO and Tory East Head are not substituted for the open south coast.
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