New York Tide Charts

Rockaway Beach tides

Predicted from Beach Channel (bridge), NOAA station 8517137, right here. Heights in feet above MLLW. Also covers Jacob Riis Park, Fort Tilden, Breezy Point and Rockaway Park.

Water level now

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Next tide

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Highs and lows

  1. 4:40 amHigh tide4.7 ft
  2. 11:02 amLow tide1.3 ft
  3. 4:55 pmHigh tide5.3 ft
  4. 11:39 pmLow tide0.6 ft

Sun and moon

Sunrise
7:11 am
Sunset
6:07 pm
Daylight
10 hr 56 min
Moonrise
3:50 pm
Moonset
2:06 am
Moon
Waxing gibbous 78%

The lowest daylight water is 1.3 ft at 11:02 am.

About Rockaway Beach

Serving as a premier urban surf destination, this peninsula covers Jacob Riis Park, Fort Tilden, Breezy Point, and Rockaway Park. It is famous for hosting NYC’s primary legal Atlantic surfing breaks, alongside opportunities for bodyboarding and walking the paved 5.5-mile Rockaway Boardwalk. Surfers live by the tide charts in the Rockaways; timing a session with an incoming tide pushing over the nearshore sandbars near Fort Tilden and Breezy Point ensures the most consistent, powerful, and clean wave shapes for riding.

This week

  1. Wed

    21 Oct

    5.3 ft

    4:55 pm

    0.6 ft

    11:39 pm

  2. Thu

    22 Oct

    5.5 ft

    5:49 pm

    0.9 ft

    11:55 am

  3. Fri

    23 Oct

    5.7 ft

    6:39 pm

    0.3 ft

    12:24 am

  4. Sat

    24 Oct

    6.1 ft

    7:05 am

    0.0 ft

    1:07 am

  5. Sun

    25 Oct

    6.5 ft

    7:48 am

    -0.2 ft

    1:49 am

  6. Mon

    26 Oct

    6.8 ft

    8:31 am

    -0.3 ft

    3:09 pm

  7. Tue

    27 Oct

    6.9 ft

    9:15 am

    -0.3 ft

    3:57 pm

  8. Wed

    28 Oct

    6.9 ft

    10:02 am

    -0.2 ft

    4:03 am

  9. Thu

    29 Oct

    6.6 ft

    10:52 am

    -0.1 ft

    4:51 am

  10. Fri

    30 Oct

    6.3 ft

    11:49 am

    0.2 ft

    5:42 am

The highest water of each day, and when it arrives.

King tides in 256 days

Water reaches 7.1 ft at 9:11 pm on Sunday 4 July, the highest of this run. See every king tide through 2030

Along the coast

The nearest New York locations north and south of here, in order along the coast. Each dot sits at its true latitude; where places crowd together the writing is nudged clear and joined back to its dot by a line. The region page lists them all.

October 2026

Date Tides Sunrise Sunset
1Thu
Low 5:54 am 0.4 ftHigh 12:02 pm 6.3 ftLow 6:44 pm 0.7 ft
6:50 am6:39 pm
2Fri
High 12:41 am 5.1 ftLow 6:48 am 0.6 ftHigh 1:04 pm 6.1 ftLow 7:49 pm 0.9 ft
6:51 am6:37 pm
3Sat
High 1:46 am 4.9 ftLow 7:53 am 0.9 ftHigh 2:09 pm 5.9 ftLow 9:02 pm 1.0 ft
6:52 am6:35 pm
4Sun
High 2:53 am 4.9 ftLow 9:07 am 1.0 ftHigh 3:15 pm 5.8 ftLow 10:13 pm 0.8 ft
6:53 am6:34 pm
5Mon
High 3:58 am 5.1 ftLow 10:19 am 0.8 ftHigh 4:19 pm 5.9 ftLow 11:14 pm 0.5 ft
6:54 am6:32 pm
6Tue
High 5:01 am 5.4 ftLow 11:22 am 0.6 ftHigh 5:19 pm 6.0 ft
6:55 am6:30 pm
7Wed
Low 12:06 am 0.1 ftHigh 5:59 am 5.8 ftLow 12:17 pm 0.3 ftHigh 6:15 pm 6.1 ft
6:56 am6:29 pm
8Thu
Low 12:53 am -0.1 ftHigh 6:51 am 6.1 ftLow 1:07 pm 0.1 ftHigh 7:06 pm 6.2 ft
6:57 am6:27 pm
9Fri
Low 1:36 am -0.3 ftHigh 7:38 am 6.4 ftLow 1:54 pm 0.0 ftHigh 7:52 pm 6.2 ft
6:58 am6:26 pm
10Sat
Low 2:17 am -0.3 ftHigh 8:20 am 6.6 ftLow 2:39 pm -0.1 ftHigh 8:35 pm 6.1 ft
6:59 am6:24 pm
11Sun
Low 2:57 am -0.2 ftHigh 9:00 am 6.6 ftLow 3:22 pm -0.1 ftHigh 9:16 pm 5.9 ft
7:00 am6:22 pm
12Mon
Low 3:35 am 0.0 ftHigh 9:38 am 6.5 ftLow 4:03 pm 0.1 ftHigh 9:56 pm 5.6 ft
7:02 am6:21 pm
13Tue
Low 4:12 am 0.3 ftHigh 10:16 am 6.3 ftLow 4:43 pm 0.3 ftHigh 10:35 pm 5.3 ft
7:03 am6:19 pm
14Wed
Low 4:48 am 0.6 ftHigh 10:54 am 5.9 ftLow 5:23 pm 0.6 ftHigh 11:16 pm 5.0 ft
7:04 am6:18 pm
15Thu
Low 5:24 am 0.9 ftHigh 11:34 am 5.6 ftLow 6:04 pm 0.9 ft
7:05 am6:16 pm
16Fri
High 12:01 am 4.6 ftLow 6:01 am 1.2 ftHigh 12:20 pm 5.3 ftLow 6:50 pm 1.2 ft
7:06 am6:15 pm
17Sat
High 12:53 am 4.4 ftLow 6:44 am 1.5 ftHigh 1:11 pm 5.0 ftLow 7:45 pm 1.4 ft
7:07 am6:13 pm
18Sun
High 1:50 am 4.3 ftLow 7:39 am 1.7 ftHigh 2:07 pm 4.9 ftLow 8:50 pm 1.5 ft
7:08 am6:12 pm
19Mon
High 2:48 am 4.3 ftLow 8:50 am 1.8 ftHigh 3:04 pm 5.0 ftLow 9:55 pm 1.3 ft
7:09 am6:10 pm
20Tue
High 3:45 am 4.4 ftLow 10:01 am 1.6 ftHigh 4:00 pm 5.1 ftLow 10:51 pm 1.0 ft
7:10 am6:09 pm
21Wed
High 4:40 am 4.7 ftLow 11:02 am 1.3 ftHigh 4:55 pm 5.3 ftLow 11:39 pm 0.6 ft
7:11 am6:07 pm
22Thu
High 5:32 am 5.2 ftLow 11:55 am 0.9 ftHigh 5:49 pm 5.5 ft
7:12 am6:06 pm
23Fri
Low 12:24 am 0.3 ftHigh 6:20 am 5.6 ftLow 12:44 pm 0.5 ftHigh 6:39 pm 5.7 ft
7:13 am6:05 pm
24Sat
Low 1:07 am 0.0 ftHigh 7:05 am 6.1 ftLow 1:33 pm 0.1 ftHigh 7:27 pm 5.9 ft
7:15 am6:03 pm
25Sun
Low 1:49 am -0.2 ftHigh 7:48 am 6.5 ftLow 2:20 pm -0.2 ftHigh 8:13 pm 6.0 ft
7:16 am6:02 pm
26Mon
Low 2:32 am -0.3 ftHigh 8:31 am 6.8 ftLow 3:09 pm -0.3 ftHigh 8:59 pm 5.9 ft
7:17 am6:01 pm
27Tue
Low 3:17 am -0.3 ftHigh 9:15 am 6.9 ftLow 3:57 pm -0.3 ftHigh 9:45 pm 5.8 ft
7:18 am5:59 pm
28Wed
Low 4:03 am -0.2 ftHigh 10:02 am 6.9 ftLow 4:47 pm -0.2 ftHigh 10:35 pm 5.6 ft
7:19 am5:58 pm
29Thu
Low 4:51 am -0.1 ftHigh 10:52 am 6.6 ftLow 5:39 pm 0.1 ftHigh 11:30 pm 5.3 ft
7:20 am5:57 pm
30Fri
Low 5:42 am 0.2 ftHigh 11:49 am 6.3 ftLow 6:35 pm 0.3 ft
7:21 am5:55 pm
31Sat
High 12:31 am 5.1 ftLow 6:38 am 0.4 ftHigh 12:51 pm 6.0 ftLow 7:36 pm 0.5 ft
7:23 am5:54 pm

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