Domburg 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 3.6m). 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.

Domburg sits on the northwest coast of Walcheren island, open to the North Sea with a broad, exposed sandy beach running north and south from the small town centre. It is the main beach resort on the Zeeland coast — one of the few stretches of open North Sea beach in the Dutch south, largely sheltered from the Westerschelde tidal currents that dominate further south. The dune ridge behind the beach has been reinforced and shaped by centuries of coastal management; the seaward face is dynamic, shifting with storm events and seasonal sand transport. The mean tidal range at Domburg is approximately 3.5 m — marginally less than Vlissingen's 3.8 m because Domburg is on the open North Sea coast rather than inside the Westerschelde funnel. Spring tides reach around 4.2 m. The beach width change between low and high water is extreme by Mediterranean standards: at low tide on a spring cycle, the exposed beach and foreshore can stretch 300–400 m from the dune toe; at high water on a spring tide with onshore swell, waves run directly to the base of the dunes. For beach users this is practical: arriving 2–3 hours before high tide gives firm, damp sand for walking, then transitioning to beach use as the tide turns. Setting up too close to the water at low tide means a long walk back as the flood advances. Domburg has been a North Sea beach resort since the late 19th century — Jan Toorop and Piet Mondrian both worked here, drawn by the coastal light. The town itself is small, oriented around beach access and summer tourism: beach pavilions, surf rental, kitesurf instruction, beach volleyball. The North Sea surf is inconsistent but real — groundswell from Atlantic depressions arrives most cleanly in autumn and winter; summer swell is smaller but warmer water (peaking around 18–19 °C in August). Rijkswaterstaat operates the official tide gauge network for the Netherlands; waterinfo.rws.nl gives real-time water level and tide predictions for the Zeeland coast. Open-Meteo Marine model uncertainty (±45 min, ±0.2–0.3 m) is proportionally small relative to the 3.5 m range at Domburg.