Pikmiktalik River entrance, AK tide times

NOAA tide prediction station 9468011, 63.2800° N, 162.6020° W. Heights in feet above MLLW.

Today at Pikmiktalik River entrance, AK

Today's predicted high and low waters, sunrise and sunset for Pikmiktalik River entrance, AK load here from NOAA. Without JavaScript they cannot be shown: NOAA's own table for station 9468011 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 Pikmiktalik River entrance, AK

Across the 933 high and low waters NOAA predicts here for 2027, high water averages 3.06 ft above MLLW and low water 0.52 ft — a mean range of 2.54 ft. Taking each day's higher high and lower low, which is the swing someone standing on the shore actually sees, the average is 3.16 ft.

On 30% of days in 2027 there are two high waters and on the remaining 246 days only one. Where there are two, they differ in height by 1.34 ft on average. Successive high waters are 18h 47m apart on average.

The largest daily swing of 2027 is 5.16 ft on 4 July 2027 and the smallest is 0.97 ft on 2 October 2027 , a factor of 5.3 between the biggest spring tide and the smallest neap.

Mean daily tidal range by month at Pikmiktalik River entrance, AK in 2027, from 2.56 ft in March to 3.81 ft in July. JFMAMJJASOND
Mean daily range by month, 2027. Tallest bar 3.81 ft.

Measured figures

Mean high water3.06 ft above MLLW
Mean low water0.52 ft above MLLW
Mean range2.54 ft
Mean great diurnal range3.16 ft
Largest daily range in 20275.16 ft on 4 July 2027
Smallest daily range in 20270.97 ft on 2 October 2027
Highest predicted tide5.26 ft at 9:37 AM on 4 July 2027
Lowest predicted tide-0.57 ft at 8:21 AM on 15 December 2027
Average gap between high waters18h 47m
Tidal patterndiurnal (1.28 high waters a day)
Position63.2800° N, 162.6020° W
NOAA station id9468011

Every figure above is computed from NOAA's published predictions for station 9468011 for the whole of 2027 (365 days, 933 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 Pikmiktalik River entrance, AK, 79 of the 466 low waters predicted for 2027 — 17% of them — fall below zero, the lowest being -0.57 ft on 15 December 2027.

Practically: a chart showing 6 ft of water here means about 6 ft at a mean lower low water and about 9.2 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 Unalakleet, AK, 111 km (69 miles) away and shifts them. High water arrives 1 h 13 min earlier than the reference station and low water 1 h 13 min earlier than it. Heights are the reference station's multiplied by 1.08 at high water and 1.08 at low water.

Those constants are NOAA's own, published for station 9468011 (reference 9468333). They are why a subordinate station's table is never simply its neighbour's.

Daylight at this latitude

Pikmiktalik River entrance, AK sits at 63.2800° N. The longest day of 2027 here is 20h 30m of daylight on 21 June 2027; the shortest is 4h 35m on 21 December 2027 — a difference of 15h 55m.

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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