Tide station · California

Pillar Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay tides

Times are local (America/Los_Angeles, GMT-8). Predicted tides, not live water levels. Not for navigation.

Right now

Rising

Next high 2:04 AM, 5.4 ft (1.64 m), in 24 min.

Today · Fri, Nov 13

  • High2:04 AM5.4 ft 1.64 m
  • Low5:50 AM4.8 ft 1.47 m
  • High11:46 AM6.8 ft 2.07 m
  • Low7:33 PM1.5 ft 0.45 m

NOAA prediction + 1.5 ft Quiver sea-level adjustment

Next 7 days

NOAA prediction + 1.5 ft Quiver sea-level adjustment

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Feet · orange dots are highs, black dots are lows
High and low tides for the next seven days
DayTides (local time, height)
Fri, Nov 13
  • H 2:04 AM · 5.4 ft
  • L 5:50 AM · 4.8 ft
  • H 11:46 AM · 6.8 ft
  • L 7:33 PM · 1.5 ft
Sat, Nov 14
  • H 3:07 AM · 5.3 ft
  • L 6:36 AM · 5.0 ft
  • H 12:27 PM · 6.5 ft
  • L 8:20 PM · 1.7 ft
Sun, Nov 15
  • H 4:11 AM · 5.4 ft
  • L 7:41 AM · 5.0 ft
  • H 1:15 PM · 6.2 ft
  • L 9:12 PM · 1.9 ft
Mon, Nov 16
  • H 4:56 AM · 5.6 ft
  • L 9:30 AM · 4.9 ft
  • H 2:18 PM · 5.8 ft
  • L 10:04 PM · 2.1 ft
Tue, Nov 17
  • H 5:27 AM · 5.8 ft
  • L 10:58 AM · 4.5 ft
  • H 3:45 PM · 5.5 ft
  • L 10:50 PM · 2.3 ft
Wed, Nov 18
  • H 5:54 AM · 6.1 ft
  • L 11:59 AM · 3.9 ft
  • H 5:09 PM · 5.4 ft
  • L 11:32 PM · 2.6 ft
Thu, Nov 19
  • H 6:20 AM · 6.5 ft
  • L 12:50 PM · 3.2 ft
  • H 6:24 PM · 5.4 ft

Quiver adds this from water levels measured against NOAA’s California tables this season; NOAA’s own table reads 1.5 ft lower.

About this station

Pillar Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay is a NOAA reference station in California, with its own harmonic constants. Heights are feet above mean lower low water (MLLW), plus Quiver's +1.5 ft sea-level adjustment.

Tide type: Mixed, mostly semidiurnal: two highs and two lows a day, one pair noticeably bigger than the other.

This week the biggest swing between high and low is 5.3 ft; the average swing is 2.5 ft.

Closest Quiver spot: Surfers Beach / Princeton Jetty (El Granada), 1 km away.

Station facts

Station ID
9414131
Source
NOAA CO-OPS
Type
Reference station
Coordinates
37.5025, -122.4822
Datum
MLLW + 1.5 ft Quiver sea-level adjustment
Tide type
Mixed, mostly semidiurnal
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles

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Tide predictions from NOAA CO-OPS (tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov).

Licence: U.S. public domain (NOAA). Predictions are astronomical tides only: wind, swell and pressure move real water. Not for navigation.