Old Port Tampa, FL tide times
NOAA tide prediction station 8726607, 27.8578° N, 82.5528° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.
Today at Old Port Tampa, FL
Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Old Port Tampa, FL load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 8726607 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 Old Port Tampa, FL
Across the 1321 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 2.14 ft above MLLW and low water 0.51 ft — a mean range of 1.63 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 2.46 ft.
On 81% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 68 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 0.76 ft on average. Successive high waters are 13h 16m apart on average.
The largest daily swing of 2027 is 3.79 ft on 5 June 2027 and the smallest is 1.25 ft on 22 June 2027 , a factor of 3.0 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.
Measured figures
| Mean high water | 2.14 ft above MLLW |
|---|---|
| Mean low water | 0.51 ft above MLLW |
| Mean range | 1.63 ft |
| Mean great diurnal range | 2.46 ft |
| Largest daily range in 2027 | 3.79 ft on 5 June 2027 |
| Smallest daily range in 2027 | 1.25 ft on 22 June 2027 |
| Highest predicted tide | 3.28 ft at 2:37 PM on 4 July 2027 |
| Lowest predicted tide | -1.12 ft at 8:35 AM on 21 January 2027 |
| Average gap between high waters | 13h 16m |
| Tidal pattern | mixed (1.81 high waters a day) |
| Position | 27.8578° N, 82.5528° W |
| NOAA station id | 8726607 |
Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 8726607 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 1321 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 Old Port Tampa, FL, 188 of the 661 low waters predicted for 2027 — 28% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -1.12 ft on 21 January 2027.
Practically: a chart showing 6 ft of water here means about 6 ft at a mean lower low water and about 8.5 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.
1 nearby station takes its predictions from this one by applying a time and height offset: Gadsden Point.
Daylight at this latitude
Old Port Tampa, FL sits at 27.8578° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 13h 54m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 10h 22m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 3h 32m.
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
- Gandy Bridge, Old Tampa Bay, FL 4.2 km (2.6 miles)
- Long Shoal, MacDill AFB, FL 7.2 km (4.5 miles)
- Gadsden Point, FL 7.8 km (4.8 miles)
- Ballast Point, FL 8.0 km (5.0 miles)
- Davis Island, Hillsborough Bay, FL 11 km (7.1 miles)
- Tampa, Hooker Point, Hillsborough Bay, FL 13 km (7.8 miles)
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