Florida Tide Charts

High tide arrives at a different time at each station. A1A highway bridge reaches 2.63 ft at 11:37 am; Adams Key, south end, Biscayne Bay reaches 2.03 ft at 12:04 pm; Alafia River North reaches 3.48 ft at 3:21 am. The table above lists the next high and the next low for all 574 Florida stations.

Chester, Bells River, where high and low water differ by 6.7 ft today. The smallest of the 566 Florida stations with a range today is Melbourne Causeway at 0.2 ft. Range varies along a coast because the shape of a bay or estuary amplifies or damps the same ocean tide.

Yes, at Alligator Point, St. James Island, Aripeka, Hammock Creek, Bayport and 48 others. The lowest is -0.68 ft at 1:08 am. A minus tide is water below mean lower low water, the zero point for US predictions, and it exposes ground that is normally covered.

Not all alike. 453 are mixed semidiurnal, 97 are diurnal and 24 are semidiurnal. Each station page classifies itself from its own predictions rather than from a regional rule, because the pattern changes along a single coast.

NOAA states roughly ten minutes on timing and half a foot on height for a reference station in ordinary weather. 206 of the 574 stations here are reference stations; the rest are subordinate, with times and heights derived from one by a published offset, so expect a little more spread. Weather is the bigger factor either way. A storm surge or a strong onshore wind can raise real water well above the prediction, which is astronomy only.