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Rakaia River at Fishing Reserve

1.58m

Sun, 18 Oct, 12:10 am · 24 min ago

Steady

3 h change: 0 mm
7-day peak: 2.03
Thu, 15 Oct, 10:10 am
30-day median: 1.40
30-day range: 0.67 – 2.52

Stage

m · New Zealand time

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Recent rises

detected from hourly means

Peak	From	To	Rise	Settled
Thu, 15 Oct, 9:00 am	0.94	2.02	+1082 mm	36 h
Sun, 4 Oct, 11:00 am	0.99	1.90	+909 mm	3.4 d
Wed, 30 Sept, 7:00 pm	1.61	2.51	+898 mm	10 h
Sat, 26 Sept, 4:00 am	1.37	1.97	+598 mm	5.3 d
Wed, 23 Sept, 2:00 am	1.43	1.95	+516 mm	24 h
Sun, 20 Sept, 11:00 am	1.40	1.90	+502 mm	47 h

Along the Rakaia

Upstream

Rakaia SH1

1.23 m

JBNZ river guide

Rakaia River, sections that cite this gauge are marked

Sections

Rakaia River

Excluding the Hydra Waters above the sign, and Glenariffe Stream.

Sea to the Wilberforce Class 1

Braided, shingle · 96 km · 4.1 m/km

Always boatable.

Launch SH1; Gorge bridge; Rakaia Huts (fee payable, please pay it)

Hazard: old bridge piles are now in all the main stems between the SH1 and rail bridges, visible or just below the surface.

Wilberforce to Jagged Stream Class 3 Closed April to June

Boulders, braided · 32 km · 7.8 m/km

Launch Lake Coleridge power station outfall

Please stop in the backwater before the Hydra Waters.

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 6 h ago. Open the PDF.

Tide at the mouth

Rakaia mouth and lagoon

Next high

Sun 9:44 am

Next window · ±2 h of high

Sun 7:44 am – 11:44 am

low Sun 3:26 am 0.8 m at Lyttelton
high Sun 9:44 am 2.2 m at Lyttelton
low Sun 4:05 pm 0.8 m at Lyttelton
high Sun 10:09 pm 2.0 m at Lyttelton
low Mon 4:14 am 0.8 m at Lyttelton
high Mon 10:31 am 2.2 m at Lyttelton

Last high seen at the gauge Sat 10:00 pm (1.68 m, 2.6 h ago). Lyttelton less 75 min, measured at the gauge over 14 tides. Lagoon access depends on the mouth's state as much as the tide. Predictions: LINZ, Lyttelton, CC BY 4.0.

Weather

at Rakaia Fishing Res · Open-Meteo

11pm

Clear

6.6°

–

4 NW

2am

Clear

5.8°

–

5 NW

5am

Clear

5.8°

–

7 N

8am

Clear

7.5°

–

10 N

11am

Clear

13.5°

–

14 NE

2pm

Clear

15.9°

–

13 E

5pm

Clear

16.2°

–

15 NE

8pm

Clear

11.5°

–

18 NE

11pm

Clear

9.7°

–

15 N

2am

Clear

9.0°

–

14 N

5am

Fog

7.4°

–

11 N

8am

Fog

11.5°

–

16 SW

Sat Clear 6.6°/ 6.6° dry

Sun Partly cloudy 16.2°/ 5.4° dry

Mon Fog 17.4°/ 7.4° dry

Tue Overcast 18.1°/ 10.9° dry

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