112 waters across 16 regions, 0 of them tied to a and 112 with a modelled tide curve. Every number on those pages is in the table below with its source. Reviewed 2026-10-07.
| Figure | Source | Kind | Refreshed |
|---|---|---|---|
| High and low tide times and heights | Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) daily tide predictions for the place’s port, in New Zealand time; heights above chart datum. CC BY 4.0 | Predicted | Per year, as LINZ publishes them |
| Tide times at secondary ports | LINZ’s prediction for the standard port, with the mean time differences, mean sea levels and range ratio that LINZ publishes in the New Zealand Nautical Almanac 2026–27, by LINZ’s own method; where LINZ publishes no low-water difference or no heights, they are not shown | Computed here | Per request |
| Air temperature, high and low | Open-Meteo daily forecast at the place’s coordinates, in degrees Celsius | Model | Every 30 minutes |
| Wind speed, gusts and direction | Open-Meteo current and daily, in kilometres per hour | Model | Every 30 minutes |
| Cloud cover and rain probability | Open-Meteo current and daily | Model | Every 30 minutes |
| Barometric pressure and its trend | Open-Meteo hourly mean sea-level pressure, read across the previous hours | Model | Every 30 minutes |
| Sunrise and sunset | Open-Meteo daily, in New Zealand time | Model | Every 30 minutes |
| Moon phase and illumination | Astronomical calculation from the date, on this site | Computed here | Per request |
| Bite times (solunar majors and minors) | The moon’s upper and lower transit, rise and set, calculated on this site for the place’s coordinates in New Zealand time; checked against the US Naval Observatory for three places on 6 October 2026, within five minutes | Computed here | Per request |
| Seasonal sea temperature | A monthly curve for the place’s stretch of coast, from NOAA’s 1991–2020 sea-surface temperature averages at one open-sea point per coast; an estimate, labelled as such, and warmer in winter and cooler in summer than a shallow harbour | Computed here | Fixed per month |
| The activity score out of five | Our scoring rules applied to the readings above | Computed here | Per report |
| The species and their seasons | The coast’s species list from MPI’s national recreational fishing surveys and Fisheries Assessment Plenary, with monthly patterns from the surveys’ fishing trips by month | Computed here | Per report |
| Daily limits, minimum sizes and closures | The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) page for the place’s fishing area, read on the date printed in the rules section; closed seasons computed from the rule in the regulations and checked against two published years | Measured | Re-read when MPI changes its rules |
| Names and coordinates of places | The New Zealand Gazetteer (NZ Geographic Board), with macrons as it writes them; the region from OpenStreetMap’s boundaries, checked by hand | Measured | Fixed; re-read when the inventory grows |
| Fishing licence prices | Fish & Game New Zealand and the Department of Conservation (Taupō), read on the date stamped on the licence page | Measured | Re-read each licence year |
New Zealand has one licence page for the whole country: fishing licence, with each price and the agency page it was read from, and the date.
They are LINZ’s predictions, the agency that predicts New Zealand’s tides, used under CC BY 4.0. LINZ says its online predictions are not the official tide tables for navigation under Maritime Rules Part 25, and every page says so. Where LINZ publishes only differences for a place, we apply them with LINZ’s own method; checked on Raglan, which has both, the method came within 13 minutes and 0.2 m over a week.
LINZ marks some secondary ports “Data Approximate” in its secondary ports table. Where a nearby port on the same coast has full data, the page uses it; where none does, the page keeps the approximate port and says so.
Not in the sea: MPI says no licence is needed to fish in the sea around New Zealand, but its limits and closures apply. Rivers and lakes need a Fish & Game licence, and the Taupō District a DOC licence; the licence page has both.
The daily conditions block is generated by our own scoring engine from that morning’s forecast and the tide: arithmetic on real data, not a language model improvising. The written guide on each page was drafted with AI from the official pages it lists and checked against them, overseen by the site’s founder; the editorial policy explains how.