Pilots Station East, SW Pass, LA tide times
NOAA tide prediction station 8760922, 28.9322° N, 89.4075° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.
Today at Pilots Station East, SW Pass, LA
Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Pilots Station East, SW Pass, LA load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 8760922 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 Pilots Station East, SW Pass, LA
Across the 762 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 1.18 ft above MLLW and low water -0.01 ft — a mean range of 1.2 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 1.27 ft.
On 6% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 328 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 0.14 ft on average. Successive high waters are 23h 00m apart on average.
The largest daily swing of 2027 is 2.48 ft on 3 July 2027 and the smallest is 0.11 ft on 22 February 2027 , a factor of 22.5 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.
Measured figures
| Mean high water | 1.18 ft above MLLW |
|---|---|
| Mean low water | -0.01 ft above MLLW |
| Mean range | 1.2 ft |
| Mean great diurnal range | 1.27 ft |
| Largest daily range in 2027 | 2.48 ft on 3 July 2027 |
| Smallest daily range in 2027 | 0.11 ft on 22 February 2027 |
| Highest predicted tide | 1.87 ft at 8:08 AM on 3 July 2027 |
| Lowest predicted tide | -0.98 ft at 5:07 AM on 20 January 2027 |
| Average gap between high waters | 23h 00m |
| Tidal pattern | diurnal (1.04 high waters a day) |
| Position | 28.9322° N, 89.4075° W |
| NOAA station id | 8760922 |
Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 8760922 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 762 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 Pilots Station East, SW Pass, LA, 200 of the 381 low waters predicted for 2027 — 52% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -0.98 ft on 20 January 2027.
Practically: a chart showing 6 ft of water here means about 6 ft at a mean lower low water and about 7.3 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
Pilots Station East, SW Pass, LA sits at 28.9322° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 13h 59m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 10h 18m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 3h 41m.
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
- SW Pass, LA 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
- Southwest Pass, LA 2.0 km (1.3 miles)
- Joseph Bayou, LA 19 km (12 miles)
- Port Eads, South Pass, LA 26 km (16 miles)
- South Pass, LA 27 km (17 miles)
- Pilottown, LA 31 km (19 miles)
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