Online services

Cam-Era is a network of computer-controlled cameras that monitor the New Zealand environment for research and resource management. These are also useful for surfers and swimmers.

NIWA's Tide forecaster provides tidal data for any point in New Zealand.

DataHub is an interface that provides access to New Zealand's National Climate Database.

This is the home for NIWA's UV and ozone research, including maps and graphs showing daily predictions and measurements for UV levels across New Zealand.

HIRDS is a simple online tool that can estimate the magnitude and frequency of high intensity rainfall at any point in New Zealand.

The condition of many NZ lakes is under threat from land-use changes and the invasion of alien aquatic plants.

NIWA run a computer model which simulates wave heights across the Canterbury continental shelf and along the coast.

This system combines daily sea-level data from NIWA, regional councils, port companies, Antarctica NZ, Bureau of Meteorology and territorial authorities.

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla. This is a result of about half a century of marine taxonomic and biodiversity research in the New Zealand region, the South West Pacific and the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

The New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database (NZFFD) contains over 50,000 freshwater fish observations from across New Zealand from 1901 to the present.

The New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database (Database) brings together all known information about tsunamis that occurred prior to written records.

NIWA Weather is NIWA's public facing weather forecasting website. You'll find 2-day, hour-by-hour forecasts for locations across Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as forecast videos by our in-house meteorologists, animations showing rain forecasts, tide forecasts and NIWA's daily UV index.