Tanapag Harbor, Saipan Island, GU tide times

NOAA tide prediction station 1633227, 15.2267° N, 145.7370° E. Heights in feet above MLLW.

Today at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan Island, GU

Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Tanapag Harbor, Saipan Island, GU load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 1633227 is at tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov. Everything else on this page is measured and does not change from day to day.

What the tide does at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan Island, GU

Across the 1403 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 2.03 ft above MLLW and low water 0.66 ft — a mean range of 1.38 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 2.1 ft.

On 92% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 28 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 0.24 ft on average. Successive high waters are 12h 29m apart on average.

The largest daily swing of 2027 is 3.23 ft on 5 July 2027 and the smallest is 0.34 ft on 3 February 2027 , a factor of 9.5 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.

Mean daily tidal range by month at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan Island, GU in 2027, from 1.86 ft in March to 2.34 ft in June. JFMAMJJASOND
Mean daily range by month, 2027. Tallest bar 2.34 ft.

Measured figures

Mean high water2.03 ft above MLLW
Mean low water0.66 ft above MLLW
Mean range1.38 ft
Mean great diurnal range2.1 ft
Largest daily range in 20273.23 ft on 5 July 2027
Smallest daily range in 20270.34 ft on 3 February 2027
Highest predicted tide2.45 ft at 11:43 PM on 7 June 2027
Lowest predicted tide-0.82 ft at 2:44 PM on 5 July 2027
Average gap between high waters12h 29m
Tidal patternsemidiurnal (1.92 high waters a day)
Position15.2267° N, 145.7370° E
NOAA station id1633227

Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 1633227 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 1403 tides), not from a regional average or an estimate.

What MLLW means here

Every height on this page is feet above MLLW — mean lower low water, the chart datum NOAA publishes tide predictions against. It is the average of the lower of each day's low waters, taken over a 19-year period, so zero here is neither the sea bed nor the average sea level: it is a level the water drops below regularly. At Tanapag Harbor, Saipan Island, GU, 176 of the 701 low waters predicted for 2027 — 25% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -0.82 ft on 5 July 2027.

Practically: a chart showing 6 ft of water here means about 6 ft at a mean lower low water and about 8.1 ft at a mean higher high. Add the predicted height for the moment you care about to the charted depth.

Where these predictions come from

This is a reference station: NOAA computes its predictions directly, from a harmonic analysis of water levels measured at this location, rather than by offsetting another station's table.

Daylight at this latitude

Tanapag Harbor, Saipan Island, GU sits at 15.2267° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 13h 02m of daylight on 22 June 2027; the shortest is 11h 13m on 22 December 2027 — a difference of 1h 49m.

Day lengths are computed with NOAA's published solar algorithm from the station's latitude and longitude. Clock times for sunrise and sunset are deliberately not printed here: they depend on the station's UTC offset, and this site takes that offset from NOAA's own answers rather than from a timezone table — so it is the live panel above, which has them, that shows the times.

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