When is high tide in Florida?

Most coasts get two high tides and two low tides in every tidal day of 24 hours and 50 minutes, so the high tides come about 12 hours and 25 minutes apart, and the water takes a little over six hours to go from high to low. That two-a-day pattern is typical of the Atlantic coast. NOAA notes that some areas of the Gulf of Mexico have only one high and one low tide a day.

For the exact times, use NOAA's tide predictions at tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.html. Pick Florida, then the station nearest your beach or boat ramp, and it gives the times and heights of the high and low tides for today and tomorrow. Around the new moon and the full moon the tides run a little higher and a little lower than usual; people call the highest of them king tides.

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