As the sun rises on Friday morning many Bay of Plenty residents will be taking part in ANZAC day dawn services.

With a continuation of a cloudy northwest feed of air across New Zealand on Friday, the country will be split between some cloudier and wetter weather conditions in the west and generally clearer skies and drier conditions in the east.

The MetService is predicting a cloudy but fine ANZAC Day.

People in the Eastern Bay are set to see some showers today with cloud moving across the city tomorrow.

The MetService is predicting more showers on Saturday with finer weather on Sunday.

Daily highs in the Eastern Bay are expected to sit around the 20 degree mark with overnight lows between 7 to 13 degrees.

MetService meteorologist John Law says for ANZAC day New Zealand is going to find itself still in a northwest flow.

'Meaning, if you are off to the dawn services in the west of the country plan for the chance of some rain while the east of the country looks to be staying dry.

'Looking ahead through the rest of ANZAC day and into the weekend, a front is forecast to move northwards across the country through Friday before weakening away across the north of New Zealand on Saturday.”

A ridge of higher pressure builds in behind the front, bringing fine weather across much of the country during the weekend.

'We should see the return of some fine and sunny weather on Saturday as one front clears from the north, but another system waiting in the wings for the start of next week should be heralded by showers returning to western shores late on Sunday.”