Vaca Key, USCG Station, Florida Bay, FL tide times
NOAA tide prediction station 8723970, 24.7110° N, 81.1065° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.
Today at Vaca Key, USCG Station, Florida Bay, FL
Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Vaca Key, USCG Station, Florida Bay, FL load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 8723970 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 Vaca Key, USCG Station, Florida Bay, FL
Across the 1081 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 0.87 ft above MLLW and low water 0.17 ft — a mean range of 0.69 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 0.93 ft.
On 49% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 173 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 0.23 ft on average. Successive high waters are 16h 13m apart on average.
The largest daily swing of 2027 is 1.45 ft on 5 June 2027 and the smallest is 0.31 ft on 27 May 2027 , a factor of 4.7 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.
Measured figures
| Mean high water | 0.87 ft above MLLW |
|---|---|
| Mean low water | 0.17 ft above MLLW |
| Mean range | 0.69 ft |
| Mean great diurnal range | 0.93 ft |
| Largest daily range in 2027 | 1.45 ft on 5 June 2027 |
| Smallest daily range in 2027 | 0.31 ft on 27 May 2027 |
| Highest predicted tide | 1.5 ft at 1:40 AM on 31 October 2027 |
| Lowest predicted tide | -0.58 ft at 10:38 PM on 13 March 2027 |
| Average gap between high waters | 16h 13m |
| Tidal pattern | diurnal (1.48 high waters a day) |
| Position | 24.7110° N, 81.1065° W |
| NOAA station id | 8723970 |
Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 8723970 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 1081 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 Vaca Key, USCG Station, Florida Bay, FL, 181 of the 541 low waters predicted for 2027 — 33% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -0.58 ft on 13 March 2027.
Practically: a chart showing 6 ft of water here means about 6 ft at a mean lower low water and about 6.9 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
Vaca Key, USCG Station, Florida Bay, FL sits at 24.7110° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 13h 40m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 10h 36m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 3h 04m.
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.
Nearest other stations
- Boot Key Harbor bridge, Boot Key, FL 0.9 km (0.5 miles)
- Knight Key Channel, Knight Key, Florida Bay, FL 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
- Pigeon Key, south side, Hawk Channel, FL 5.0 km (3.1 miles)
- Pigeon Key, north side, Florida Bay, FL 5.1 km (3.2 miles)
- Vaca Key-Fat Deer Key bridge, FL 8.0 km (5.0 miles)
- Key Colony Beach, FL 9.1 km (5.7 miles)
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