Clearwater Beach, FL tide times

NOAA tide prediction station 8726724, 27.9783° N, 82.8317° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.

Today at Clearwater Beach, FL

Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Clearwater Beach, FL load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 8726724 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 Clearwater Beach, FL

Across the 1349 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 2.39 ft above MLLW and low water 0.53 ft — a mean range of 1.85 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 2.71 ft.

On 85% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 53 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 0.8 ft on average. Successive high waters are 12h 59m apart on average.

The largest daily swing of 2027 is 4.37 ft on 4 July 2027 and the smallest is 0.64 ft on 28 May 2027 , a factor of 6.8 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.

Mean daily tidal range by month at Clearwater Beach, FL in 2027, from 2.57 ft in September to 2.88 ft in July. JFMAMJJASOND
Mean daily range by month, 2027. Tallest bar 2.88 ft.

Measured figures

Mean high water2.39 ft above MLLW
Mean low water0.53 ft above MLLW
Mean range1.85 ft
Mean great diurnal range2.71 ft
Largest daily range in 20274.37 ft on 4 July 2027
Smallest daily range in 20270.64 ft on 28 May 2027
Highest predicted tide3.7 ft at 11:50 AM on 2 August 2027
Lowest predicted tide-1.33 ft at 5:05 AM on 21 January 2027
Average gap between high waters12h 59m
Tidal patternmixed (1.85 high waters a day)
Position27.9783° N, 82.8317° W
NOAA station id8726724

Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 8726724 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 1349 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 Clearwater Beach, FL, 181 of the 675 low waters predicted for 2027 — 27% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -1.33 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 8.7 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.

21 nearby stations take their predictions from this one by applying a time and height offset: Indian Rocks Beach (Coastal), Indian Rocks Beach (inside), Clearwater, Dunedin, St. Joseph Sound, Honeymoon Island, Ozona, Indian Bluff Island, Spring Bayou, Tarpon Springs, and 13 more.

Daylight at this latitude

Clearwater Beach, FL sits at 27.9783° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 13h 55m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 10h 22m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 3h 33m.

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

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