Gold Coast, QLD tide times

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived.

Model-derived from a global ocean grid. Useful indication; expect about ±45 minutes on average vs. a local harmonic gauge, individual stations vary widely. See /methodology for per-region detail. Not for navigation.

Conditions as of 14:00 local time. Refreshes daily.

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived. · Not for navigation.

The angler tradition for major/minor fishing windows: major ≈3-hour windows around moon transit and opposition; minor ≈2-hour windows around moonrise and moonset. Times are Australia/Sydney local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Sun 17 May (range 1.9m). Next neap on Fri 22 May.

Spring tides cluster around new and full moons (biggest swings). Neap tides land on quarter moons (smallest swings). See the spring tide and neap tide glossary entries for the why.

The Gold Coast is the long open Pacific-facing strip running south from Southport to Coolangatta, fifty-odd kilometres of beach and surf and the river-mouth at the Gold Coast Seaway. The tide signature reads close to the Sydney pattern — semidiurnal, two highs and two lows about twelve and a half hours apart, mean range about 1.3 metres at the Seaway, climbing toward 1.8 on spring tides. That's a modest swing, but for the open beach, the Seaway entrance, and the inner-river reaches up the Coomera and the Nerang, the timing matters. The Seaway runs hard on the change of tide — currents through the rock-walled entrance can exceed three knots, and the tidal pool either side of the Seaway is the local benchmark for slack-water timing. The wide beaches at Surfers Paradise and Burleigh widen by 10–15 metres at low water; the dawn beach-walk crowd reads the table to time their out-and-back. Surfers at Snapper Rocks and Kirra read the same table for the way low water reshapes the inside section. Predictions on this page come from Open-Meteo Marine, gridded ocean-model output. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Maritime Safety Queensland service run the authoritative gauges.