The report · Wellington - Worser Bay · Kite · December · 6 pages
Wellington, New Zealand
Wellington - Worser Bay
71% of December days clear 12 kt for three daylight hours or more.
Hour-by-hour & month-by-month wind
Rideable-day share by month, all three sports
Share of days with three or more daylight hours over each sport's threshold, counted from the record at 12 kt, Windsurf 13 kt and Wing 12 kt.
Blue fill scales with the share. Selected month outlined. Threshold per row: Kite 12 kt · Windsurf 13 kt · Wing 12 kt.
Where the wind sits, December
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 5% of daylight hours under 4 kt.
When in the day, December
Share of days over 12 kt at each daylight hour.
Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.
December's own records
The month's own figures from nine Decembers in the record, 2017 to 2026. Not the year's average.
What the percentage hides. A month at 80% can be twenty-four steady days or three windy weeks broken by a dead front.
Full stays, schools & kit
Stays
Lessons
Kit
Price band $ to $$$ only where sourced; none shown means none held. Contact details and brands stocked join this table when the operator directory is connected.
Launch and tide notes
No tide information found for the bay. Hours per tide state unknown until tide data arrives.
Tide data not yet available for this spot. The record holds wind, air and waves, not tide. Until a tide source is connected, the tables above stay empty rather than estimated. What the guide says about tide is on the next page, in words.
Ships, the waterski lane & the headland
Every hazard on the spot page, repeated here in full. Read this before you get wet.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Launch from the sand by the boating club and rig on the grass behind it. In a northerly the wind may not reach the shore, and a local wing guide says you may need to paddle out to the wind line. No written source describing the rocks along the shore was found: look at the launch from the beach first.
The harbour entrance lies just outside the bay. Every vessel under 500 gross tonnage must not impede a vessel of 500 gross tonnage or more, and the entrance channel is a narrow channel. A waterski access lane runs 200 metres out from the southern end of the bay, marked by orange posts with black horizontal bands: keep out of it while it is in use for waterskiing. A local windsurf guide warns that past the headland a rider is in line with Cook Strait, and that a rider in trouble there should swim or will drift out.
Getting there, packing & best months
No current guide or school names Worser Bay as a kite launch, so no kite sizes are given. The record’s mean over the season’s rideable hours, August to December, is 16 to 17 kt.
Best months, Kite. Record.
Sources, and their limits
Where each section of this report comes from. Record is measured. Modelled is computed by a formula because no measurement exists yet; it looks like data and is not. Written is WindChaser's editorial copy, compiled from the sources below.
The record
Hourly wind, 2017 to 2026, from ECMWF IFS HRES via Open-Meteo: a 9 km grid, read at the cell 1.6 km from the spot. It knows the wind over the cell, not the gust on the sand in front of you, and it knows the bearing, not the coastline: "side-onshore" is a rider's reading of the bearing. Each month is counted over nine to ten years.
What we could not source for Wellington - Worser Bay
A crowd count, beyond the club’s racing and event dates. A water quality grade newer than Greater Wellington’s 2023/24 report: LAWA’s own grade page refused scripted reads, and no grade since the 2026 Moa Point incident was read. A first-hand reading of the local vibe. A water temperature measured at the bay: the figure is from Queens Wharf, in the inner harbour. Tide tables and per-launch tide windows. A station check on the wind record. A surveyed launch point. A current guide or school naming Worser Bay as a windsurf or kite launch (LAWA’s activity list tags kite surfing only). A written source for the rocks along the shore. A licensed photograph of riding at the bay.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Compiled by WindChaser, 27 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by KillerCapitalKiwi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Report generated 22 Oct 2026 from record version 2026.10; a report and its spot page are rendered from the same data and cannot disagree.