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Ōpunake

Surf and ski town · New Zealand

Score a trip to Ōpunake

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Beds: 0 places

0 places 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).

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Spots near here: 18 places in 2 sports

Surf · this week

  • Back Beach · about 1h 15m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    52 out of 100
  • Green Meadows · about 15 min by car

    47 out of 100
  • op · about 10 min by car

    47 out of 100
  • Puniho road · about 5 min by car

    47 out of 100
  • Kumera Patch · about 1h by car · stays in New Plymouth

    44 out of 100
  • Mikotai · about 1h 20m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    44 out of 100
  • Rocky Pt · about 50 min by car

    44 out of 100
  • Arawahata Road · about 15 min by car

    43 out of 100
All 17 surf spots
  • Stent Road · about 45 min by car

    43 out of 100
  • The groyne · about 1h 25m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    41 out of 100
  • Waiwakaiho River Mouth Reef, Waisys · about 1h 25m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    41 out of 100
  • Bog Works · about 1h 25m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    35 out of 100
  • Fitzroy Beach · about 1h 25m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    35 out of 100
  • Boulders bay · about 1h 25m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    30 out of 100
  • Belt Road · about 1h 20m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    26 out of 100
  • Break water · about 1h 20m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    24 out of 100
  • Aquatic centre · about 1h 20m by car · stays in New Plymouth

    23 out of 100

Ski · this week

At Manganui: We don't know the avalanche risk here. Check the NZ Avalanche Advisory.

  • Manganui · 41 min by car · Closed for the season

    –, 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 Ōpunake.

Map

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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 Ōpunake.

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About Ōpunake

where it is, what is near

Ōpunake is a town in Taranaki Region, New Zealand.

From Ōpunake you can reach 17 surf spots and 1 ski resort.

The nearest is Puniho road, a surf spot 2.9 km from the centre.

The nearest airport is New Plymouth Airport (NPL), 54 km away.

In Taranaki Region · North Island · New Zealand

  • 0 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: New Plymouth Airport (NPL), 54 km, Wanganui Airport (WAG), 114 km, Palmerston North Airport (PMR), 178 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).