I'm not a company — this is a personal project. I live on the Isle of Wight and got fed up with tide times being scattered across different sites, none of which showed everything (weather and tides, for every beach) in one place. I built this for my own family's use and I'm sharing it publicly in case it's useful to anyone else.
This site is not affiliated with the UK Hydrographic Office, the Met Office, or Open-Meteo. It simply displays data pulled from their public services and APIs.
Days 1–7 are real Admiralty predictions for the 9 stations listed above.
Beaches that aren't one of those 9 exact stations show a time and height interpolated between their two nearest real neighbouring stations, based on the actual measured difference between those two stations on each day — not an independent prediction for that exact spot. These are marked with a * wherever they appear in the tide tables.
Cowes has a genuine double high water on most days (a real, well-documented Solent phenomenon). It's shown as measured for Cowes itself; nearby beaches (East Cowes, Osborne Bay, Hamstead, Newtown Bay, Thorness Bay, Gurnard, Egypt Point) show the same effect fading with distance from Cowes, rather than the full, undiminished double tide. On any day this occurs, the tide table shows the first of the pair (marked †) to keep a consistent 4-tide layout — the second high is close in time and height to the first, not a separate low-water cycle.
Bembridge Harbour is a similarly restricted, local reading — a small harbour with a near-drying low water, not representative of the open coast around it. Only St Helens beach uses it directly. Bembridge, Whitecliff Bay, Seagrove Bay, and Priory Bay instead use the nearby Foreland (Lifeboat Slip) station, which better represents the open coast there.
Days 8–14 are not real predictions at all — they're a projection based on the pattern in the real 7-day data (the same tidal interval and spring/neap trend, carried forward). These are always clearly marked "Estimated" wherever they appear.
Most days show 4 tide events (High/Low/High/Low), but you'll sometimes see only 3. This is expected, not missing data: the real tidal cycle is about 12 hours 25 minutes between successive high (or low) waters, so 4 events span roughly 24 hours 50 minutes — a little more than a calendar day. Because of this, the timing of all four daily tides drifts about 50 minutes later each day, and roughly every couple of weeks that drift pushes what would be the 4th tide of the day past midnight, so it counts toward the following day instead, leaving that day with only 3. These days are marked ‡ in the tide tables.
All times are rounded to the nearest minute.
Adjusted or estimated tide figures — anything calculated from a time or height difference to a nearby station, or projected beyond the real 7-day window — should not be used for navigation. In an emergency, use the Coastguard (999, ask for Coastguard) or the Met Office's official warnings, not this site.
Forecasts, especially further out, can be wrong. Treat the 14-day view as a rough guide for planning, not a guarantee — particularly for the later days.
The beach guide page (sandy/shingle/rocky type, and which beaches have organised lifeguard cover) is compiled from public tourism and geological sources, not an official safety survey. Some beaches have an individually-sourced description; others are classified from the general character of that stretch of coast where no specific source was found — the guide marks the difference clearly. Lifeguard season dates and hours shift year to year and can go out of date — always check current signage on the day.
This site is provided as-is, in the hope it's useful, with no guarantee of accuracy and no liability accepted for any loss or inconvenience arising from its use.
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