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Not for navigation. All tide times and heights are predictions for leisure use.

Tide gauges

Tide predictions use Environment Agency tide gauge data from the real-time data API (Beta) and the Hydrology data API, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Scottish tide predictions use tide gauge data from SEPA, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. Contains SEPA data © Scottish Environment Protection Agency and database right, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Regional coastal monitoring data are made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 by the National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes (coastalmonitoring.org). They must not be used for navigation, and neither may our posters and calendars.

  • Data courtesy of the Channel Coastal Observatory. Copyright: New Forest District Council (Swanage, Lymington, Sandown, Brighton, Arun, Hastings, Deal and Herne Bay tide gauges).
  • Data courtesy of the Southwest Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme. Copyright: Teignbridge District Council (Port Isaac, Exmouth, West Bay and Second Severn Crossing tide gauges).
  • Data courtesy of the Northeast Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme. Copyright: Scarborough Borough Council (Scarborough and Whitby tide gauges).
  • Data courtesy of Vale of Glamorgan Council. Copyright: Vale of Glamorgan Council (Penarth tide gauge).

Beach predictions

Beach predictions use the FES2022 Tide product, funded by CNES, produced by LEGOS, NOVELTIS and CLS and made freely available by AVISO. The data has been modified: we combine it with UK gauge records to predict tides at the beach.

Reference: CNES (2024). FES2022 (Finite Element Solution) Ocean Tide. DOI 10.24400/527896/A01-2024.004. Licence: AVISO licence (Issue 20), see the FES2022 product page.

Maps

Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. openstreetmap.org/copyright.

The map picker uses © OpenMapTiles and © OpenStreetMap contributors. openmaptiles.org.

Type

Cormorant Garamond, DM Sans and Barlow Condensed, all under the SIL Open Font License.