Scheveningen, South Holland 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 06:00 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 Europe/Amsterdam local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Tue 19 May (range 2.4m). Last neap on Sat 16 May. 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.

Scheveningen sits on the open North Sea coast on the western edge of The Hague, with the long sand-and-dune shoreline running south past the Hook of Holland to the Maasvlakte and the Delta Works, and north past Wassenaar and Katwijk to the IJmuiden lock and Zandvoort. The harbour itself is one of the busiest small fishing and recreational ports on the Dutch coast, separated from the open beach by a pair of stone breakwaters that frame the harbour entrance. The tide here runs the southern North Sea signature: cleanly semidiurnal, two highs and two lows of comparable size each day, twelve and a half hours apart. Mean range at Scheveningen is about 1.7 metres, climbing past 2.0 metres on spring tides and dropping near 1.2 on neaps. Inside Rotterdam Europoort just to the south the propagating tide reaches the harbour about 30 to 60 minutes behind the open coast, with the working pilots on the New Waterway timing approaches by the slack on the rising flood. Beach walkers reading for the wide-sand windows at the bottom of the cycle, kitesurfers at the breakwater wing, swimmers on the long stretch from Scheveningen Strand south to Kijkduin, and the local fishing fleet leaving the inner harbour for the open North Sea each read the table for different reasons. Lowest spring lows around new and full moons open the inner-shelf sandbanks for hours either side. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page; for authoritative Dutch tide data, Rijkswaterstaat operates the Scheveningen gauge as part of the national network and publishes the official tide tables. Storm-surge events in winter from North Sea low-pressure systems can lift levels well above predicted, and the Maeslantkering storm-surge barrier at the New Waterway is designed to close when forecast water exceeds 3 metres above NAP at Hoek van Holland.