Online services

NIWA provides online access to major climate and environmental monitoring systems and forecasting tools.

Cam-era

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 forecast

NIWA is developing a suite of sophisticated, high-resolution online weather forecasting and information products, collectively called NiwaForecast, which will help New Zealanders plan their weather-dependent business and leisure activities.

Satellite Data Services

NIWA provides live satellite data for sea surface temperature and chlorophyll analysis for use by New Zealand's fishing industry.

Tide forecaster

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

Coastal and Marine Data Portal

NIWA's Coastal and Marine Data Portal provides project specific marine data.

CliFlo

CliFlo is the web system that provides access to New Zealand's National Climate Database.

UV and ozone

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.

eHarvest

E-harvest helps to ensure the safe harvest of mussels and oysters. This website disseminates the relevant mussel and oyster harvest area status reports.

HIRDS

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

Historic Weather Events Catalog

This is a catalog of major weather events in New Zealand over the last 200 years. The information has been collated from newspaper reports, journals, books and databases kindly provided by various organisations and individuals. 

LakeSPI

 LakeSPI provides a quick and cost-effective bio-assessment tool for monitoring and reporting on the ecological condition of lakes. 

NIWA Hydro Web Portal

NIWA's Hydro Web Portal provides river flow and water quality monitoring data from NIWA’s Benchmark river monitoring network.

Canterbury Wave Conditions

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

Sea levels

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

NIWA Invertebrate Collection

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.

NZ Freshwater Fish Database

The New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database (NZFFD) records the occurrence of fish in fresh waters of New Zealand.

New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database

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

NiwaWeather

NIWA Weather forecasts and rainfall maps for New Zealand towns and cities.

SolarView

This calculator estimates the solar energy that can be collected by a solar capture device (solar panel) at a given address, panel direction and roof slope.

Terms & Conditions

Registration Required
To access NIWA’s Satellite Imagery Services you must either be a registered user or provide us with credit card details for a one-off transaction. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and Bankcard. Normally we expect to bill users once a month to a credit card account, but we are prepared to send monthly invoices to major customers instead. Provided all the required information, including credit card details, is submitted via the registration page, you may access any of our products immediately.

Urban Runoff Quality Information System (URQIS)

NIWA's Urban Runoff Quality Information System (URQIS) provides planners, engineers and researchers with information about the quality of stormwater from different locations and landuses and under different flow conditions.

UV Index

Plots of today's UV index are available in graphical form for Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Lauder and Invercargill.