Tides

Official NOAA Tide Tables

Please fill out the form below to view tide tables from the NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS). All fields are required.


Tide Site      * or

(Date Format: 20101115 ; 1 year maximum ; Year Range: 1900-2037)





Data Units   Feet          Meters

Time Zone  LST**        UTC

Datum         MLLW***  STND




* Tide station site drop-down list ordered from south to north in California. Active or historic tide station (data collection site where harmonic predictions are made) names are captilized, tide prediction points are lower case.

** The LST (Local Standard Time) option returns tide tables in California time vs. UTC (Universal Time Coordinate)

*** Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) is an average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Epoch ; Station Datum (STND) is a fixed base elevation at a tide station to which all water level measurements are referred.




Tides by County

Tide tables and graphs generated by the University of South Carolina

Del Norte:


Humboldt:

Mendocino:

Sonoma:

Marin:

Contra-Costa:

Alameda:

San Francisco:

San Mateo:

Santa Cruz:

Monterey:

San Luis Obispo:

Santa Barbara:


Regional Information

West Coast Tide Sites (used in above tables and graphs)

NOAA California Tide Sites

NOS CO-OPS Water Level Stations