Tel Aviv-Yafo 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 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.

Tel Aviv-Yafo wraps the central Israeli Mediterranean coast at the foot of the coastal plain that runs from the Lebanese border in the north south to the Gaza line. The modern city was founded in 1909 on the sand dunes immediately north of the ancient port of Jaffa (Yafo), and the two amalgamated under the joint name in 1950. Tel Aviv beach runs continuously for about fourteen kilometres from the Reading Beach at the Yarkon river mouth in the north south past Hilton, Gordon, Frishman, and Bograshov to the working port of Jaffa and the Bat Yam line beyond. The tide here is the small Eastern Mediterranean signal characteristic of the Levantine basin: mean range at the Tel Aviv coast is about 0.3 metres, with spring tides reaching close to 0.5 metres and neaps dropping near flat. The astronomical signal is genuinely tiny because the Mediterranean connects to the Atlantic only through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar and the Eastern Mediterranean is the far end of an already weak tidal system. What matters more on a day-to-day basis is meteorological tide. Westerly storms in winter can lift water levels 30 to 50 centimetres above predicted on sustained events and build the surf at Hilton Beach, the Bograshov breaks, and the Maravi point break further south. The defining cultural and historical feature is the Jaffa fishing port, one of the oldest continuously operating ports in the world. Phoenician traders worked the harbour three thousand years ago, the cedar of Lebanon used in the construction of the First and Second Temples passed through Jaffa according to the biblical Books of Chronicles and Ezra, the prophet Jonah departed for Tarshish from Jaffa in the Book of Jonah, and the Saint Peter Church above the working port marks the early-Christian pilgrimage tradition that traces to the Acts of the Apostles. The harbour itself is small by modern standards but the working fishing fleet still ties up at the Jaffa harbour each morning and the catch is auctioned at the dockside. The long Tel Aviv beach corridor narrows by a few metres at high water and widens at low; the Tayelet boardwalk runs continuously from the Tel Aviv port at the northern edge to Jaffa. Sailing fleets out of the Tel Aviv marina, the working ferry industry along the coast, the night-fishing scene at Reading Beach, and the surf calendar at Hilton, Bograshov, and Maravi all read the wider weather pattern more than the tide table. The Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research institute (IOLR) publishes the authoritative water-level data; Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page.