🏖️ Isle of Wight Beach & Tide Guide

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Alum Bay ^* 🐾

Shingle & sand, coloured sand cliffs behind — time and height interpolated between neighbouring real tide stations, approximate, for casual planning only.

🏖️ Needles Landmark Attraction at the top (chairlift, shops, café, toilets, paid parking). Getting down to the beach itself is by the Needles chairlift (paid, seasonal) or on foot down a long flight of wooden steps through the chine (free) — reportedly around 185 steps, though I couldn't independently confirm that exact figure; expect a genuinely long flight with rest landings along the way, not suitable for prams or limited mobility. One of the best beach-level viewpoints of the Needles on the whole Island.

🐾 Dogs allowed, must be kept on a lead.

🅿️ Nearest parking: Needles Landmark Attraction car park — Paid Apr-Oct, free otherwise.

Tide Chart — Next Week Estimated

Tide Times — Next Week Estimated

Estimated — projected from real data, not yet real UKHO readings, see how this works. ^† Cowes-area double high water shown together in one column. ^‡ Only 3 tides that day — expected, see why.

Weather — Next Week

Local to Totland Bay, the nearest real tide/weather reference point to this beach — see data sources.

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