An early weather outlook shows residents in the Bay of Plenty can look forward to a mostly-fine Easter weekend.

According to WeatherWatch.co.nz, Easter 2018 is looking fairly decent for most regions with mostly light winds and warm days.

In the Bay of Plenty the weather looks predominantly fine, other than some rain on Saturday.

'Easter is well known for having rough weather, situated at that rough halfway mark between the longest day of the year in late December and the shortest day in late June," says WeatherWatch.co.nz

'However Easter 2018 is shaping up pretty positive for most if not all regions.”

'Good Friday shows a few showers possible first thing around Hawke's Bay, Gisborne and Northland - and potentially very early in the Auckland region.

'It's dry everywhere else with mostly light winds nationwide thanks to a large high centred over central New Zealand.”

"A cold front in the Southern Ocean on Saturday is bringing some rain to the lower South Island, namely the West Coast.

'It fizzles out by the time it reaches about Westport later in the day.

'Most other regions are dry but a few spits are possible briefly in Southland and Otago and a few light showers may also hug Coromandel Peninsula to the east and Bay of Plenty.

'Winds are light in the North Island with a westerly flow over the South Island.”

Easter Sunday is showing cloud and a few light showers in the western side of both islands, says WeatherWatch.co.nz

'Mostly the West Coast and the south west corner of the North Island but even then it will be mostly dry there - and dry elsewhere. Winds are light in most places on Sunday.”

Rain retuns to the West Coast with heavy falls on Easter Monday.

'A few showers may affect the North Island's west coast. Most other places are dry with fairly light winds.”