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The New Brighton Duke Festival of Surfing
13 Mar 2020 to 15 Mar 2020

The “I Love New Brighton” Annual Event is our local festival day that celebrates everything we love about New Brighton - south, north, central and beyond!!

A Winters Day

  • New Brighton
  • New Brighton Pier
  • Surf History
  • New Brighton Beach
  • New Brighton Pier

Welcome to New Brighton Beach

This is the Christchurch Beach with the most services close by see New Brighton Mall. Just across the road is a small outdoor shopping mall with supermarket. modern library, plenty of car parking, bus services, cash flow machines, back packer accommodation, childrens pools, new playground, bars and cafes along with a Pier that reaches out above the waves.
Also soon to have a multimillion Salt Water heated pool completed in 2019.

Christchurch New Brighton is an eastern suburb with an 18 kilometre sandy beach compiling of South New Brighton, New Brighton and North New Brighton on toward the Spencer Park Beach at the Waimakariri River Mouth .
Walk and cycle tracks can take you from New Brighton to the river mouth.

A Christchurch icon and holds a lot of memories for most people living in the city especially for those that remember the Saturday shopping in the New Brighton mall (see history of New Brighton shopping) part of early Christchurch culture.

See the rebuilt New Brighton Pier or the famous Whale Pool that has been relocated to the new playground that sits just a little north of New Brighton Library.

New Brighton Beach (web cam) has a Surf Life Saving Club and has surf patrol volunteers monitoring the beach during certain times of the year. Remember to swim between the flags.

Surf at this beach can be varible, mostly due to summer on shore winds, however it can still produce a nice swell and is a good learner location. Just watch out for swimmers and fishing lines near the Pier.

New Brighton Pier
New Brighton Pier
Surf History
Surf History
New Brighton Beach
New Brighton Beach
New Brighton Pier
New Brighton Pier

As it Was


Gala day at the beach 1927

1966 Parking as it was and pretty much the same nowdays

1960 - 1965

Photo Lorina Adkins believed to be 1965 - 1970

Location of NEW BRIGHTON BEACH