Florida Tide Charts

Q: Where do the Florida tide predictions come from?

Every value comes from NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). Florida has 20 harmonic prediction stations in this directory, and each page requests the predictions from api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov in your browser when it loads, so the numbers are NOAA's own rather than a copy we maintain.

Q: Which Florida station has the biggest tides?

Among the stations listed here, Fernandina Beach has the largest published mean range at 6.02 feet, while Marathon has the smallest at 0.71 feet. Mean range is NOAA's long-term average difference between mean high water and mean low water; spring tides swing wider than it and neap tides narrower.

Q: Why is high tide at different times along the Florida coast?

The tide is a long wave moving along the coast and into every bay and river, and it takes real time to travel. Two towns on the same shoreline can see high water an hour or more apart, and the delay grows up estuaries and behind inlets. That is why this page links a separate chart per NOAA station instead of pretending one table covers the whole state.

Q: Can I use these pages for boating in Florida?

No. These are planning pages for beach walks, fishing and tidepooling. Mariners should use official NOAA charts and products at tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov. Whether any specific flat, bar or crossing is safe on foot is a local conditions question for the authority that manages that shoreline, not something a tide table can answer.

Seven day tide tables and today's tide curve for 20 NOAA harmonic prediction stations on the Florida coast, live from NOAA CO-OPS.

20 NOAA stations with a tide chart page in Florida

Station pages

Biggest mean range

6.02 ft

Source

NOAA CO-OPS

Florida tides at a glance

NOAA harmonic stations

tide chart pages

one per NOAA harmonic station

6.02 ft

largest mean range

Fernandina Beach (station 8720030)

0.71 ft

smallest mean range

Marathon (station 8723970)

Mixed / Semi Diurnal / Diurnal

tide types here

NOAA station classification

Florida runs every tide regime the country has: modest semidiurnal tides on the Atlantic side, mixed tides in the Keys, and diurnal or mixed tides on the Gulf side where some days bring only one high and one low. Range and timing can differ more between two Florida coasts than between two states elsewhere.

Pick your coast

Florida tide chart pages

Each page below reads NOAA’s harmonic predictions live for one station: today’s curve, a 7 day high/low table with sun and moon times, and the week’s best low tide windows. Mean range and tide type come from NOAA’s published station datums, and they are worth a glance before you pick: two towns an hour apart can live on very different tides.

Tide chart	NOAA station	Mean range	Tide type
Fernandina Beach	Fernandina Beach (8720030)	6.02 ft	Mixed
Mayport	Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock) (8720218)	4.53 ft	Mixed
Jacksonville Beach	Jacksonville Beach (8720291)	5.07 ft	Mixed
St. Augustine Beach	St. Augustine Beach (8720587)	4.61 ft	Mixed
New Smyrna Beach	New Smyrna Beach (8721164)	2.43 ft	Mixed
Cocoa Beach	COCOA BEACH, ATLANTIC OCEAN (8721649)	3.46 ft	Semi Diurnal
Fort Pierce	Binney Dock (8722213)	2.02 ft	Mixed
Palm Beach	Lake Worth Pier, Atlantic Ocean (8722670)	2.72 ft	Mixed
Fort Lauderdale	FT. LAUDERDALE, ANDREWS AVENUE BRIDGE (8722937)	2.05 ft	Mixed
Miami (Virginia Key)	Virginia Key (8723214)	2.04 ft	Mixed
Marathon (Vaca Key)	Vaca Key, Florida Bay (8723970)	0.71 ft	Diurnal
Key West	Key West (8724580)	1.28 ft	Mixed
Naples	Naples (8725110)	2.01 ft	Mixed
Fort Myers	Fort Myers (8725520)	0.94 ft	Mixed
St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg (8726520)	1.59 ft	Mixed
Clearwater Beach	Clearwater Beach (8726724)	1.89 ft	Mixed
Cedar Key	Cedar Key (8727520)	2.83 ft	Mixed
Apalachicola	Apalachicola (8728690)	1.11 ft	Diurnal
Panama City Beach	Panama City Beach (8729210)	1.25 ft	Diurnal
Pensacola	Pensacola (8729840)	1.2 ft	Diurnal

Mean range is NOAA’s published difference between mean high water and mean low water at each station, in feet.

Local knowledge

How tides behave on the Florida coast

Flats fishing built an entire culture on reading these tides, from bonefish flats in the Keys to redfish country around Cedar Key. Tidepooling is best on the Atlantic rock ledges at low water, and Gulf beachcombers watch for the negative winter lows that expose huge sand flats.

The spread inside the state is real: NOAA’s mean range runs from 0.71 feet at Marathon to 6.02 feet at Fernandina Beach. Use the station nearest the shoreline you actually plan to stand on, and expect timing to drift further up rivers, estuaries and back bays.

Tide pool at low water crowded with purple and orange sea stars and green anemones — A tide pool exposed at low water. The daytime lows and minus tides flagged on each Florida station page are the windows when shoreline like this is reachable. “Tide pools in santa cruz” by Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0

A white tide staff marked in feet standing in harbor water, with a Tide Level sign and NOAA ships docked behind it — A tide staff and NOAA ships in Juneau, Alaska. Every prediction on the Florida pages traces back to water level measurements like these, analyzed by NOAA CO-OPS into harmonic constants. “NOAA Tide Level Juneau 28” by Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 4.0

A person digging for clams with a long-handled tool on a wet sand flat exposed at low tide — Clam digging on a flat exposed at low water. Where Florida allows shellfishing, the tide table is the first tool; the state’s harvest rules and closures are the second. “Clam digging” by Martyne Reesman, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, CC BY-SA 2.0

A full moon rising over calm water beyond a stone breakwater with people watching from it — Full and new moons bring the biggest tides of the month to the Florida coast: spring tides, when the highs run highest and the minus tides show up. “Full Moon rising over Brisbane River-1” by Sheba_Also 43,000 photos, CC BY-SA 2.0

Common questions

Florida tides FAQ

Where do the Florida tide predictions come from?

Which Florida station has the biggest tides?

Why is high tide at different times along the Florida coast?

Can I use these pages for boating in Florida?

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Tide charts in other states

Station facts are from NOAA CO-OPS (tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov), US government work in the public domain, attributed as NOS requests. Tide values are read live on each station page and reproduced as published. These pages are for beach, fishing and tidepool planning, not navigation. National hub: US tide charts →
Hero image: “Brewster Flats Tidal Flats on Cape Cod Bay East Brewster Massachusetts” by EgorovaSvetlana, CC BY-SA 4.0