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Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, looking southeast (ISS020-E-36315)
Māhia. Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Māhia

Surf town · New Zealand

Score a trip to Māhia

Surf, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 1 place

1 place to stay within 2 km.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 1 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 19 surf spots

Surf · this week

  • Pines · about 1h 30m by car · stays in Gisborne

    46 out of 100
  • Stockroute · about 1h 25m by car · stays in Gisborne

    46 out of 100
  • Wairoa River Barr · about 1h 15m by car · stays in Wairoa

    43 out of 100
  • Wainui Beach · about 1h 25m by car · stays in Gisborne

    42 out of 100
  • Table Cape Reefs · about 15 min by car

    36 out of 100
  • Big River · about 1h 15m by car · stays in Gisborne

    34 out of 100
  • Rolling Stones · about 15 min by car

    32 out of 100
  • Mahanga · about 15 min by car

    31 out of 100
All 19 surf spots
  • Gizzy Pipe · about 1h 25m by car · stays in Gisborne

    30 out of 100
  • Sponge bay · about 1h 25m by car · stays in Gisborne

    30 out of 100
  • The pipe (midway beach) · about 1h 25m by car · stays in Gisborne

    30 out of 100
  • Roberts rd · about 1h 25m by car · stays in Gisborne

    29 out of 100
  • Table cape · about 15 min by car

    28 out of 100
  • Boat harbours · about 20 min by car

    27 out of 100
  • Waikokopu bay · about 15 min by car

    26 out of 100
  • Cliffs · about 1h 25m by car · stays in Gisborne

    20 out of 100
  • Mahia reef · about 5 min by car

    13 out of 100
  • Blacks reef · about 15 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score
  • Spit · about 10 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Māhia.

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 50 km from Māhia.

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Photos of Māhia

ISS016-E-5126 - View of the North Island of New Zealand
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Mahia ocean waves (Unsplash)
Photo: Mathyas Kurmann mathyaskurmann, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

About Māhia

where it is, what is near

Māhia is a town in Hawke's Bay Region, New Zealand.

From Māhia you can reach 19 surf spots.

The nearest is Mahia reef, a surf spot 0.5 km from the centre.

Overture lists 1 place to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Gisborne Airport (GIS), 49 km away.

In Hawke's Bay Region · North Island · New Zealand

  • 1 place to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Gisborne Airport (GIS), 49 km, Hawke's Bay Airport (NPE), 98 km, Whakatāne Airport (WHK), 156 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).