James Island, WA tide times

NOAA tide prediction station 9442388, 47.9067° N, 124.6470° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.

Today at James Island, WA

Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for James Island, WA load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 9442388 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 James Island, WA

Across the 1411 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 7.44 ft above MLLW and low water 1.4 ft — a mean range of 6.04 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 8.05 ft.

On 93% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 25 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 1.48 ft on average. Successive high waters are 12h 25m apart on average.

The largest daily swing of 2027 is 11.96 ft on 22 January 2027 and the smallest is 2.3 ft on 5 November 2027 , a factor of 5.2 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.

Mean daily tidal range by month at James Island, WA in 2027, from 7.6 ft in September to 8.47 ft in July. JFMAMJJASOND
Mean daily range by month, 2027. Tallest bar 8.47 ft.

Measured figures

Mean high water7.44 ft above MLLW
Mean low water1.4 ft above MLLW
Mean range6.04 ft
Mean great diurnal range8.05 ft
Largest daily range in 202711.96 ft on 22 January 2027
Smallest daily range in 20272.3 ft on 5 November 2027
Highest predicted tide10.21 ft at 11:37 AM on 22 January 2027
Lowest predicted tide-2.74 ft at 8:12 AM on 5 July 2027
Average gap between high waters12h 25m
Tidal patternsemidiurnal (1.93 high waters a day)
Position47.9067° N, 124.6470° W
NOAA station id9442388

Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 9442388 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 1411 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 James Island, WA, 176 of the 706 low waters predicted for 2027 — 25% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -2.74 ft on 5 July 2027.

Practically: a chart showing 6 ft of water here means about 6 ft at a mean lower low water and about 14.1 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 Toke Point, WA, 143 km (89 miles) away and shifts them. High water arrives 39 min earlier than the reference station and low water 32 min earlier than it. Heights are the reference station's multiplied by 0.92 at high water and 0.96 at low water.

Those constants are NOAA's own, published for station 9442388 (reference 9440910). They are why a subordinate station's table is never simply its neighbour's.

Daylight at this latitude

James Island, WA sits at 47.9067° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 16h 02m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 8h 23m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 7h 39m.

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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