Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal, WA tide times

NOAA tide prediction station 9446807, 47.0983° N, 122.8950° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.

Today at Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal, WA

Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal, WA load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 9446807 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 Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal, WA

Across the 1411 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 13.42 ft above MLLW and low water 3.29 ft — a mean range of 10.13 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 13.94 ft.

On 93% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 24 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 1.79 ft on average. Successive high waters are 12h 25m apart on average.

The largest daily swing of 2027 is 19.36 ft on 5 July 2027 and the smallest is 6.27 ft on 27 June 2027 , a factor of 3.1 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.

Mean daily tidal range by month at Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal, WA in 2027, from 12.93 ft in March to 14.73 ft in July. JFMAMJJASOND
Mean daily range by month, 2027. Tallest bar 14.73 ft.

Measured figures

Mean high water13.42 ft above MLLW
Mean low water3.29 ft above MLLW
Mean range10.13 ft
Mean great diurnal range13.94 ft
Largest daily range in 202719.36 ft on 5 July 2027
Smallest daily range in 20276.27 ft on 27 June 2027
Highest predicted tide16.34 ft at 7:54 AM on 25 January 2027
Lowest predicted tide-3.98 ft at 12:39 PM on 4 July 2027
Average gap between high waters12h 25m
Tidal patternsemidiurnal (1.93 high waters a day)
Position47.0983° N, 122.8950° W
NOAA station id9446807

Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 9446807 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 Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal, WA, 165 of the 705 low waters predicted for 2027 — 23% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -3.98 ft on 4 July 2027.

Practically: a chart showing 6 ft of water here means about 6 ft at a mean lower low water and about 19.9 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

Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal, WA sits at 47.0983° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 15h 55m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 8h 30m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 7h 25m.

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.

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