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Hurunui River at No.2 Hut Bridge

15.5m³/s

Sat, 17 Oct, 11:00 pm · 30 min ago

Steady

ClearingClearing: 3 d since the last peak

3 h change: -0.49 m³/s
Steady for: 15 h
7-day peak: 209
Thu, 15 Oct, 1:20 am
30-day median: 14.1
30-day range: 7.04 – 209
Highest gauged: 489 m³/s
Stage: 1.17 m
Recession: halves in 5 h
median of 5 past rises, toward 7.12

Flow

m³/s · New Zealand time

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Recent rises

detected from hourly means

Peak	From	To	Rise	Settled
Thu, 15 Oct, 12:00 am	7.12	202	28.3×	8 h
Sun, 27 Sept, 11:00 am	12.2	86.5	7.1×	9 h
Tue, 22 Sept, 8:00 am	17.8	34.0	1.9×	7 h
Sun, 20 Sept, 12:00 am	15.8	75.2	4.8×	11 h
Thu, 17 Sept, 10:00 am	15.5	42.4	2.7×	12 h

Along the Hurunui

Downstream

Hurunui Esk Head

17.3 m³/s

JBNZ river guide

Hurunui River, sections that cite this gauge are marked

Sections

Hurunui River

SH70 bridge to the sea

Shingle, willows; fast and mean above SH70 · 16 km · 11.9 m/km

Launch Railway bridge at the mouth

No current information, history not known. Please give information to JBNZ if you boat it.

This row sits under the Hurunui in the sheet, but SH70 does not cross the Hurunui, so it may describe another river.

Sea to SH7 Class 1

Shingle, braided, gorge · 49 km · 4.1 m/km

35 cumecs at Mandamus. Hurunui Mandamus now 61.1 m³/s, above the minimum.

Launch SH1

SH7 to Mandamus Class 2

Boulders, shingle, braided · 20 km · 6 m/km

40 cumecs at Mandamus. Hurunui Mandamus now 61.1 m³/s, above the minimum.

Launch Balmoral bridge, south side, at times into the Waitohi

Mandamus River to Lake Sumner Class 3

Rocks, boulders, gorgy, rapids · 40 km · 6 m/km

100 to 140 cumecs at Mandamus. Hurunui Mandamus now 61.1 m³/s, below the minimum.

Launch The Peaks, ask permission

Requires high flow conditions.

Lake Sumner to No. 3 Hut Class 3

Shingle, braided · 16 km · 7.2 m/km

Launch Loch Katrine

Requires high flow conditions. Seldom boated.

From the Jet Boating New Zealand Canterbury river information sheet of July 2024, transcribed by hand on 17 October 2026. Uplifting is whether the 5-knot limit is lifted for the section. JBNZ can update the sheet at any time; flo checked it 4.9 h ago. Open the PDF.

Weather

at Hurunui No.2 Hut · Open-Meteo

10pm

Clear

7.1°

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0 NW

1am

Fog

4.4°

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6 W

4am

Fog

4.4°

–

8 NW

7am

Fog

3.7°

–

9 NW

10am

Clear

12.9°

–

7 NW

1pm

Clear

18.5°

–

9 NW

4pm

Clear

18.8°

–

10 NW

7pm

Clear

15.1°

–

8 NW

10pm

Partly cloudy

8.2°

–

7 NW

1am

Fog

7.2°

–

9 NW

4am

Fog

6.8°

–

9 NW

7am

Fog

6.9°

–

9 NW

Sat Clear 7.1°/ 5.1° dry

Sun Fog 19.2°/ 3.7° dry

Mon Fog 18.4°/ 6.7° dry

Tue Fog 16.7°/ 6.2° dry