Worldwide Tides

Tide tables

High and low water, sunrise, sunset and the moon, for the Pacific coast of North America and beyond.

United States

NOAA publishes predictions for every coastal state. These are the ones we cover in depth.

  1. Washington

    43 locations

    The Pacific beaches, the Strait, Hood Canal, the San Juans and Puget Sound.

    1. Low12:14 am0.1 ft
    2. High7:17 am6.6 ft
    3. Low12:09 pm4.3 ft
    4. High6:23 pm8.5 ft
  2. Oregon

    26 locations

    The whole coast from Astoria to Brookings, with king tides and razor clamming lows.

    1. Low12:59 am-0.1 ft
    2. High7:19 am5.7 ft
    3. Low12:23 pm4.0 ft
    4. High6:40 pm8.2 ft
  3. California

    69 locations

    The whole coast, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one, in three sections.

    1. High6:30 am3.6 ft
    2. Low9:41 am3.4 ft
    3. High4:00 pm5.3 ft
    4. Low11:56 pm-0.2 ft
  4. Hawaii

    37 locations

    A small range, but on a reef coast a foot decides whether a break works. Check the tide before choosing where to paddle out.

    1. Low1:55 am0.33 ft
    2. High10:28 am2.14 ft
    3. Low6:40 pm0.35 ft
    4. High11:22 pm0.67 ft
  5. Texas

    27 locations

    The Gulf coast, where the tide comes once a day rather than twice and the passes do the work.

    1. Low3:32 pm0.0 ft
  6. Louisiana

    27 locations

    Marsh, bayou and pass. The range is small here; which way the tide is running is what matters.

    1. High3:32 am1.65 ft
    2. Low3:30 pm0.12 ft
  7. Mississippi

    14 locations

    The Sound, the mainland shore and four barrier islands, each with a gauge of its own.

    1. High3:35 am2.9 ft
    2. Low3:18 pm0.1 ft
  8. Alabama

    10 locations

    Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Fort Morgan and Dauphin Island, and the jubilee shore of Mobile Bay.

    1. High1:12 am2.08 ft
    2. Low2:00 pm0.01 ft
  9. Florida

    83 locations

    Two tidal worlds in one state: the Atlantic side runs three to five feet, the Gulf side barely two.

    1. High1:59 am2.45 ft
    2. Low9:50 am0.40 ft
    3. High4:40 pm1.36 ft
    4. Low8:23 pm1.02 ft
  10. Georgia

    24 locations

    Barrier islands and tidal creeks, with the biggest range on the American Atlantic south of Maine.

    1. High1:40 am6.7 ft
    2. Low8:05 am0.9 ft
    3. High2:12 pm7.9 ft
    4. Low9:00 pm1.5 ft
  11. South Carolina

    24 locations

    The Grand Strand, the Charleston islands and the Lowcountry marsh, with a six-foot range throughout.

    1. High1:34 am5.1 ft
    2. Low7:39 am0.7 ft
    3. High2:13 pm6.2 ft
    4. Low8:46 pm1.2 ft
  12. North Carolina

    35 locations

    The Outer Banks, the Crystal Coast and Cape Fear — with Pamlico Sound behind, where the wind matters more than the moon.

    1. High12:43 am3.3 ft
    2. Low6:59 am1.0 ft
    3. High1:21 pm4.2 ft
    4. Low8:16 pm1.2 ft
  13. Virginia

    21 locations

    The Atlantic front at Virginia Beach, the Eastern Shore seaside, and the Chesapeake, where the tide arrives hours apart.

    1. High1:03 am3.4 ft
    2. Low7:14 am0.7 ft
    3. High1:41 pm4.4 ft
    4. Low8:31 pm0.9 ft
  14. Maryland

    19 locations

    Ocean City on the Atlantic, and the whole Chesapeake behind it, where the tide arrives five hours apart end to end.

    1. Low5:53 am0.91 ft
    2. High10:37 am1.19 ft
    3. Low4:58 pm0.36 ft
  15. Delaware

    16 locations

    Rehoboth and the Atlantic beaches, and the bay shore where the horseshoe crabs spawn on the spring high tides.

    1. High1:10 am3.4 ft
    2. Low7:15 am0.6 ft
    3. High1:54 pm4.7 ft
    4. Low8:29 pm1.0 ft
  16. New Jersey

    28 locations

    The whole shore from Sandy Hook to Cape May, the bays behind the islands, and the Delaware Bay side.

    1. High1:04 am3.6 ft
    2. Low6:57 am0.8 ft
    3. High1:29 pm4.9 ft
    4. Low8:19 pm0.8 ft
  17. New York

    26 locations

    Montauk to Coney Island, and Long Island Sound, where the tide fills from both ends and the range nearly triples.

    1. High2:33 am1.92 ft
    2. Low9:12 am0.53 ft
    3. High3:15 pm2.58 ft
    4. Low10:18 pm0.30 ft
  18. Connecticut

    22 locations

    The whole Long Island Sound shore, where the range climbs from under three feet in the east to seven in the west.

    1. High2:44 am2.3 ft
    2. Low9:18 am0.6 ft
    3. High3:22 pm2.9 ft
    4. Low10:20 pm0.4 ft
  19. Rhode Island

    22 locations

    South County beaches and their salt ponds, Block Island, and Narragansett Bay up to the hurricane barrier.

    1. High1:27 am3.4 ft
    2. Low6:24 am0.5 ft
    3. High1:56 pm3.9 ft
    4. Low9:12 pm0.8 ft
  20. Massachusetts

    35 locations

    Cape Ann to the islands. On Cape Cod the bay side runs ten feet and the sound side two, fifteen miles apart.

    1. High5:00 am8.9 ft
    2. Low10:56 am0.9 ft
    3. High5:16 pm10.2 ft
    4. Low11:44 pm0.1 ft
  21. New Hampshire

    10 locations

    Eighteen miles of coast, a nine-foot range, and the Piscataqua running four knots through the middle of it.

    1. High4:54 am7.9 ft
    2. Low11:07 am1.0 ft
    3. High5:09 pm9.1 ft
  22. Maine

    30 locations

    Kittery to Calais, where the range climbs from nine feet to twenty — the largest tide in the United States.

    1. High4:16 am10.0 ft
    2. Low10:19 am1.3 ft
    3. High4:34 pm11.3 ft
    4. Low11:10 pm0.4 ft

Canada — Pacific

Predictions from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, in metres above Chart Datum.

  1. British Columbia

    31 locations

    Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the mainland coast, from Victoria to Prince Rupert.

    1. Low12:22 am0.8 m
    2. High7:06 am2.7 m
    3. Low12:10 pm1.9 m
    4. High6:18 pm3.2 m

Canada — Atlantic

The Bay of Fundy has the largest tides in the world: past fifty feet at Burntcoat Head.

  1. Nova Scotia

    44 locations

    The largest tide on Earth in Minas Basin, and an ordinary six feet on the Atlantic shore sixty miles away.

    1. High1:16 am1.5 m
    2. Low8:19 am0.6 m
    3. High1:27 pm1.7 m
    4. Low9:00 pm0.3 m
  2. New Brunswick

    32 locations

    Hopewell Rocks and the upper Fundy at forty feet, the Reversing Falls, the Petitcodiac bore, and warm sand on the Strait.

    1. High5:30 am12.0 m
    2. Low11:58 am2.0 m
    3. High5:57 pm12.3 m
  3. Prince Edward Island

    30 locations

    Two seas that keep different time, meeting off East Point, over the warmest salt water north of the Carolinas.

    1. Low7:07 am0.2 m
    2. High2:00 pm0.4 m
    3. Low3:47 pm0.4 m
    4. High11:31 pm1.0 m

Latin America

NOAA still publishes for many ports south of the border, a legacy of its printed tide tables.

  1. Guatemala

    6 locations

    Black sand and turtle hatcheries on the Pacific, the Río Dulce gorge on the Caribbean.

    1. Low1:00 am0.5 ft
    2. High7:12 am5.8 ft
    3. Low1:36 pm0.5 ft
    4. High7:41 pm5.2 ft
  2. El Salvador

    4 locations

    Volcanic sand and the right points of the Costa del Bálsamo.

    1. Low1:03 am0.5 ft
    2. High7:13 am6.4 ft
    3. Low1:39 pm0.5 ft
    4. High7:42 pm5.7 ft
  3. Honduras

    4 locations

    The Bay Islands and the reef, plus the mainland Caribbean shore.

    1. Low5:46 am0.40 ft
    2. High12:52 pm1.17 ft
    3. Low4:19 pm1.02 ft
    4. High11:36 pm2.04 ft
  4. Nicaragua

    9 locations

    Point breaks and crescent bays on the Pacific, the Corn Islands and Bluefields on the Caribbean.

    1. Low12:58 am0.6 ft
    2. High7:12 am7.3 ft
    3. Low1:34 pm0.6 ft
    4. High7:41 pm6.5 ft
  5. Costa Rica

    19 locations

    The Pacific surf coast from Guanacaste to the Osa, and the Caribbean south of Limón.

    1. Low12:50 am1.0 ft
    2. High7:08 am8.6 ft
    3. Low1:30 pm0.8 ft
    4. High7:47 pm7.7 ft
  6. Panama

    17 locations

    Twelve feet of range on the Pacific side, barely two on the Caribbean. Two different coasts entirely.

    1. Low1:22 am-0.32 ft
    2. High7:20 am0.44 ft
    3. Low11:07 am0.24 ft
    4. High6:20 pm1.64 ft
  7. Ecuador

    16 locations

    The Manabí and Santa Elena coasts, and the Galápagos, where the tide decides when the lava tunnels are passable.

    1. Low2:10 am1.4 ft
    2. High8:15 am5.6 ft
    3. Low2:41 pm0.8 ft
    4. High9:13 pm5.6 ft