Lighthouse Point, LA tide times
NOAA tide prediction station 8765568, 29.5233° N, 92.0433° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.
Today at Lighthouse Point, LA
Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Lighthouse Point, LA load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 8765568 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 Lighthouse Point, LA
Across the 1057 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 1.83 ft above MLLW and low water 0.39 ft — a mean range of 1.44 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 1.97 ft.
On 46% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 186 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 0.21 ft on average. Successive high waters are 16h 35m apart on average.
The largest daily swing of 2027 is 3.37 ft on 3 July 2027 and the smallest is 0.05 ft on 26 February 2027 — on that day the water barely moves at all.
Measured figures
| Mean high water | 1.83 ft above MLLW |
|---|---|
| Mean low water | 0.39 ft above MLLW |
| Mean range | 1.44 ft |
| Mean great diurnal range | 1.97 ft |
| Largest daily range in 2027 | 3.37 ft on 3 July 2027 |
| Smallest daily range in 2027 | 0.05 ft on 26 February 2027 |
| Highest predicted tide | 2.82 ft at 5:52 PM on 30 October 2027 |
| Lowest predicted tide | -1.7 ft at 6:33 AM on 21 January 2027 |
| Average gap between high waters | 16h 35m |
| Tidal pattern | diurnal (1.45 high waters a day) |
| Position | 29.5233° N, 92.0433° W |
| NOAA station id | 8765568 |
Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 8765568 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 1057 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 Lighthouse Point, LA, 195 of the 529 low waters predicted for 2027 — 37% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -1.7 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 8.0 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 subordinate station. NOAA does not run a separate harmonic analysis here; it takes the predictions for GALVESTON, Galveston Channel, TX, 267 km (166 miles) away and shifts them. High water arrives 1 h 16 min earlier than the reference station and low water 2 h 17 min earlier than it. Heights are the reference station's multiplied by 1.4 at high water and 1.4 at low water.
Those constants are NOAA's own, published for station 8765568 (reference 8771450). They are why a subordinate station's table is never simply its neighbour's.
Daylight at this latitude
Lighthouse Point, LA sits at 29.5233° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 14h 02m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 10h 15m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 3h 47m.
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
- Southwest Pass, Vermilion Bay, LA 6.4 km (3.9 miles)
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- Freshwater Bayou, LA 25 km (15 miles)
- Freshwater Canal Locks, LA 26 km (16 miles)
- Cypremort Point, LA 26 km (16 miles)
- South Point, Marsh Island, LA 27 km (17 miles)
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