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New Zealand Weather & Tides

Official Weather | Local Weather | Tides

Below is the latest available current weather conditions and brief forecasts for the main New Zealand centers and also the Christmas/Cassidy area. Weather forecasts are best obtained straight from their source, in New Zealand this is the NZ Met Service. Below is direct links to the Met Service's forecasts by region.

Short Forecasts for all
New Zealand

Coastal Marine Forecasts

Recreational Marine Forecasts

Short Forecast	Abel	Cook	Puysegur	Christchurch
Extended Forecast	Brett	Foveaux	Raglan	Coromandel
Situation Statement	Castlepoint	Grey	Rangitata	Hawkes Bay
High Seas Forecasts	Chalmers	Kaipara	Stephens	Kapiti Coast
Pacific	Chatham Islands	Milford	Recreational Marine Forecasts	Lake Rotorua
Subtropic	Colville	Plenty	Auckland	Lake Taupo
Southern	Conway	Portland	Bay of Islands	Mana
Forties			Bay of Plenty	Wellington

The Met Service is not the only source for New Zealand weather information. Below is a list of direct links to other services.

Service	Comments
TVNZ (One Weather)	Excellent coverage of all cities and towns in New Zealand. Video clips and fly bys add that little bit extra that make this the best New Zealand weather site.
Stuff Weather	A wealth of weather information that covers most parts of New Zealand (tides, actual and predicted wind strength) and five day forecasts.
Intellicast Auckland Christchurch Wellington	Much improved service with all sorts of information and a special note to sailors is a large amount of wind information.
MetVUW	Run by the school of earth sciences at Victoria University in Wellington this site has excellent satellite and radar images, upper air data, forecast charts, current and ocean weather for all of New Zealand not just Wellington.
Yahoo!Xtra	Nicely presented Met Service derived weather information.

Local Weather | Offical Weather | Tides

Local weather stations are usually run by amateur weather enthusiasts though a number of businesses also run stations. They contain weather measuring instruments unique to that station and upload in real or near real time to the internet. Perfect for checking the current wind speed and direction in different parts of a city or in different regions of New Zealand. Remember to check the date and time of any forecast before you rely on it.

If you are staying in a New Zealand hotel you can also check the weather at the destination you're staying in."

Northland	Coromandel	Wellington	Dunedin
Brynderwyn	Cooks Beach	Lower Hutt	Dunedin City
Auckland	Tapu	Mana	Opoho
Albany	Waikato	Silverstream	Port Otago
Ardmore	Cambridge	Stokes Valley	Otago
Grahams Beach	Hamilton	Trentham	Arrowtown
Grey Lynn	Matamata	Wainuiomata	Omarama
Manukua Heads	Bay of Plenty	Whitby	Southland
Massey / Waitakere	Taupo	Worser Bay	Gore
Mission Bay	Tauranga	Nelson	Invercargill
Pukekohe	Te Puke	Nelson City	Makarewa
South Head	Turangi	Christchurch	Bluff
St Heliers	Whakatane	Christchurch City	Bluff Port
Waiuku	Hawkes Bay	Hillmorton	Stewart Island
	Puketapu	Westlake
	Wairarapa
	Carterton

Tides | Local Weather | Offical Weather

Service	Comments
Land Information New Zealand	Exports tide prediction tables for the 16 major ports in both PDF (Requires Adobe Acrobat to read) and CSV formast. Also covers a huge number of secondary port and areas with pretty comprehensive data.
NIWA Tide Forecaster	NIWA's handy tide forecaster allows you to forecast high and low tides anywhere in open coastal and ocean waters around New Zealand for up to 28 days. It also claims to predict historical tides back to 1830.
OceanFun Unlimited Tide Graph	This is the quickest and simplest site that displays New Zealand tide information more than a day ahead. It covers 15 areas 3 months in advance. Easy to use, recommended.

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