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This page provides a graph of the tide height over one day for any one of about 180 different places around NZ. Use TideSpy for Australia, USA, and Pacific Islands.

To display a tide graph for your desired location:

  1. Use one of the following to choose a location for your tides:
    • Click the map near the location and choose from the menu or,
    • Choose from the alphabetical list under the map, or
    • Use the map link near the top of this page for a bigger map.

  2. Click a date on the calendar to see tides for any other day.
  3. Hover the mouse over the graph for the time and height of the nearest high or low tide.
  4. Click anywhere on the curve to see the tide height and time displayed in the title bar. When the graph is first displayed, the current tide is shown. A black line on the graph indicates the current time.
  5. Important: Double-check that the correct place and date are shown at the top of the graph before relying on the figures obtained.

Any time you return to this page, the last-chosen place will be shown.

When clicking on the map, the list shows nearby places in order of distance from the place that was clicked.

"Nearby places" means those places that are close in a straight line distance. Tide figures for "nearby places" may be quite different.

Times are corrected for daylight saving where approriate.
This graph is not intended for navigational or engineering purposes.
Heights may be less accurate for places where specific height information is not available.

If you would like more information or are having problems with this page, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).


Click here to see Copyright and Disclaimer notices
 

A larger map and tide graphic can be found on our TideSpy map here.

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What we're about

This page is intended for fishers, fishermen, surfers, kayakers, canoers, boaties, muckers about in boats, pirates, port authorities, beachcombers, lifesavers, sailors and sailers of yachts, captains of nuclear wessels and all maner of folk who interact with the sea, ocean, estuaries, islands, and atolls, and who wish to know about tide predictions, tide forcasts, tide tables, and who are also interested in swell forecasts, weather forecasts, and next week's lotto numbers.

Lighthouse keepers may also wish to know the height of water in their basements - which we can supply in metres (or meters) or feet. Drowning is excluded since it's entirely possible to drown at low tide, high tide, or anytime in between with equal effect.

In case you are wondering, this little blurb is to add the keywords to improve the targeting and indexing by certain bots and engines that scan this web page. The tide graph doesn't have much text and the bots aren't clever at figuring out what this page is about.

Ok, Who else? Coastguards, lifeboat operators, and people who like to have weddings and get married on the beach (we get a lot of those). Chandlers who get away from their Nautical almanacs, fish finders, their sails and compasses, their radars and shackles, their marine charts and datums, and all of that boating paraphernalia that they sell, might use tide charts too if they ever get to sail, or canoe, or drown. Boatbuilders, with their fibreglass, outboard motors and rudders. Barnacles and anti-fouling paint, propellers and masts, mainbraces and booms, mainsails and spinnakers, keels and wheels. My apologies to any sea-farers (or ferries) that I may have forgotten.

Did I mention marriage and weddings on the beach, with brides and grooms, bridesmaids, and the best man. Tide tables are also useful for getting across stretches of water that flood at high tide and get you stranded in a cave, or on the rocks. Up the creek without a paddle I believe is the correct term, with certain embellishments.

The following links may be of interest; they are mostly sites that link to this page...