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Okains Bay. Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Okains Bay

Surf town · New Zealand

Score a trip to Okains Bay

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: 5 surf spots

Surf · this week

  • Hickory Bay · about 20 min by car

    47

  • Magnet Bay · about 50 min by car · stays in Te Oka

    43

  • Raupo Bay · about 15 min by car

    28

  • Stony Beach · about 10 min by car

    27

  • Tumble Down Bay · about 30 min by car · stays in Akaroa · Not for intermediates

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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 Okains Bay.

Map

the town and every place near it

Okains Bay on Google Maps

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 30 km from Okains Bay.

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Photos of Okains Bay

St John the Evangelist Okains Bay 2025 MRD 03
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
A group of California quail
Photo: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Industrial abstract..
Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

About Okains Bay

where it is, what is near

Okains Bay is a town in Canterbury Region, New Zealand.

From Okains Bay you can reach 5 surf spots.

The nearest is Stony Beach, a surf spot 5 km from the centre.

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

The nearest airport is Christchurch International Airport (CHC), 48 km away.

In Canterbury Region · South Island · New Zealand

  • 1 place to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Christchurch International Airport (CHC), 48 km, Timaru Airport (TIU), 159 km, Hokitika Airfield (HKK), 200 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).