Acre (Akko) 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 07:00 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 Asia/Jerusalem local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Last spring tide on Sat 16 May (range 0.4m). Next neap on Wed 20 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.

Acre (Akko in Hebrew, Akka in Arabic) is one of the oldest continuously inhabited ports on the eastern Mediterranean coast, located at the northern end of Haifa Bay. The Old City of Akko occupies a small peninsula that juts into the bay; its sea walls and fortifications have been built, destroyed, and rebuilt from the Phoenician period through the Crusades to the Ottoman era. The city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site; the Crusader-era underground city beneath the current street level is one of the most remarkable medieval archaeological sites in the Middle East. The coastal character of Akko is defined by its sea walls. The fortified walls face west and north into the Mediterranean; the stone and mortar of the Ottoman-era walls (18th–19th century) sit at sea level, and wave action during winter NW storms directly strikes the wall face. The Mediterranean tide at Akko is the same as at Haifa: astronomical range 15–30 cm, entirely dominated by weather-driven water-level variation. The harbour inside the walls — the Crusader harbour, now a small-boat marina — is on the south side of the peninsula and is sheltered from the dominant NW swell. The fishing harbour at Akko (on the inner, bay-facing side of the Old City) is one of the oldest functioning fishing ports in the eastern Mediterranean. Small artisanal fishing boats still operate from the inner harbour; the daily fish auction and market is in the covered harbour building adjacent to the sea wall. The inner harbour is sheltered and the depth does not change significantly with the 15–30 cm tidal range. The sea wall promenade at the northern face of the Old City is a dramatic walking route: the wall runs along the waterline and in rough weather the spray reaches the path. The promenade is accessible at all tidal states given the negligible range; the only practical consideration is wave height during NW winter storms, when the exposed northern face is splashed and occasionally dangerous. The water off the Akko coast north of the Old City (toward the Akko beaches and the Nahariya coast further north) is clearer than the inner Haifa Bay; the bay axis opens northward and the circulation brings cleaner open Mediterranean water from the north. Snorkelling from the Akko coastal beaches north of the old city wall — particularly off the rocky sections between the sandy beaches — is productive in summer when visibility reaches 5–8 m. IOLR monitors sea level at Haifa. Predictions here: Open-Meteo Marine, ±45 min / ±0.2–0.3 m. The Akko Old City at dusk, when the crowd of daytime tour groups has reduced and the Mediterranean light turns the Ottoman-era walls amber, is one of the finer urban walking experiences on the Israeli coast. The Al-Jazzar Mosque (1781), the Crusader underground halls (Templars' tunnel), and the Khan Al-Umdan caravanserai are all within the compact Old City walled area; the sea wall promenade at the northern face connects them to the fishing harbour on the south side in a 30-minute walking loop. The harbour fish market in the early afternoon (when the day boats return) gives access to the freshest Eastern Mediterranean catch: sea bream, sea bass, grey mullet, and the occasional swordfish from deeper water. The mixed Jewish-Arab character of the Akko Old City — the Arab neighbourhood within the walls alongside the Jewish immigration-era districts outside — gives the city a cultural complexity that is unusual in the Israeli coastal context. The Old City market mixes Arab produce vendors, tourist souvenir stalls, and the daily commerce of the resident Arab community; the fish harbour gives access to the working waterfront. The city's complicated history, spanning Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, Crusader, Ottoman, and British periods, is layered into the same compact peninsula; the sea wall that defines the western edge of the peninsula has been rebuilt by at least four different administrations over 2,500 years.