LINZ tide predictions for the beaches, harbours and towns people search for, with bite times worked out for each place and an honest outlook for the day from an open weather model.
Reports current for Thursday, 8 October 2026 · national pulse 3.0/5
Every one of our 16 benchmark New Zealand waters has a live read this morning. They are all sitting in the middle of the scale today. Water runs 15 °C to 16 °C. Pressure is holding steady on most of them, so the day comes down to water temperature and wind.
The Waitematā Harbour and the inner Hauraki Gulf at the city’s edge, launched from council ramps such as Westhaven and Ōkahu Bay, with the tide taken from LINZ’s Auckland standard port.
An east Auckland suburb with all-tide council ramps at Half Moon Bay, set nets banned on the Tāmaki River and shellfish closures nearby.
A point on the Manukau Harbour’s Waitākere shore with a restored 200-metre wharf, inside the set-net ban that MPI applies across the harbour entrance.
A North Shore suburb with council ramps from Torpedo Bay to Narrow Neck and shellfish gathering banned at Cheltenham Beach.
A bay on Auckland’s south-eastern coast with an all-tide concrete ramp beside the jetty and regional parks on both sides.
Auckland’s big west-coast harbour, launched from council ramps from Māngere Bridge to the Manukau Heads, with a bar the harbourmaster warns can be dangerous.
Seasons written for the southern year, tactics in local terms, and the waters we cover for each species.
112 places around the North and South Islands, each with the LINZ tide times for the week, the moon and sun, and the windows either side of the tide change.
Coastal waters →Written for New Zealand, on the questions anglers here actually search for.
Seasons that are open today, worked out from the rule each agency publishes and checked against two years it published. Not a list someone typed in last spring. A species with no published closure is not listed, which is not the same as open.
Closes 31 Oct 2026.
Closes 31 Oct 2026.
Closes 31 Oct 2026.
Closes 31 Oct 2026.
Closes 31 Oct 2026.
The whole Northland scallop fishery, from Tauroa Point around North Cape to Cape Rodney, has been closed to recreational and commercial scallop fishing since 1 April 2022, until further notice.
Auckland closed seasons → · Northland closed seasons → · Bay of Plenty closed seasons → · Waikato closed seasons → · Canterbury closed seasons → · Wellington closed seasons → · Hawke's Bay closed seasons → · Marlborough closed seasons → · Southland closed seasons → · Taranaki closed seasons → · Tasman closed seasons → · West Coast closed seasons → · Manawatū-Whanganui closed seasons → · Otago closed seasons → · Gisborne closed seasons → · Nelson closed seasons →
Tide times come from Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), the agency that predicts New Zealand’s tides. Where LINZ only publishes differences for a place, we apply them with LINZ’s own method and say so.
Sunrise, sunset and the moon’s transits are calculated for each place’s coordinates, and the daily outlook is generated from an open weather model. A model is called a model.
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112 waters across 16 regions, with full coverage rolling out from here.