Veere 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.

Last spring tide on Sat 16 May (range 3.9m). 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.

Veere is a small fortified town on the north coast of Walcheren island, overlooking what was once a tidal inlet and is now the Veerse Meer — an inland lake created when the Delta Works closure dam (the Veersegatdam) was built in 1961 as one of the first completed elements of the Delta programme. Before the dam, the Veerse Gat was an open tidal channel; after closure, the former harbour became landlocked, and the Veerse Meer has since been managed as a freshwater and later brackish recreational lake. This transformation defines the tidal reality at Veere today: the Veerse Meer itself has no meaningful tidal signal. Water levels in the lake are managed by Rijkswaterstaat through sluices to maintain a consistent recreational level. Tidal variation that would have run 3.0–3.5 m here in the pre-Delta Works era simply does not exist in the closed basin. Water levels can vary modestly with wind and managed sluice operations, but not with the astronomical tide. The town is one of the best-preserved late-medieval harbour towns in the Netherlands. The Grote Kerk (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk), a massive 15th-century church that was never completed to its intended height, now serves as a cultural centre and gives the small town a skyline disproportionate to its 2,000-person population. The old Stadhuys (town hall, 1474) faces the former harbour. The harbour basin itself still holds sailing boats and dinghies; the Veerse Meer is a major inland sailing and watersports venue. For sailors and kayakers: the Veerse Meer connects via locks to the Oosterschelde (Eastern Scheldt) and gives access to the Zeeland delta network. The Oosterschelde itself is tidal — retaining a macrotidal range of approximately 2.8–3.2 m because the Oosterscheldekering storm surge barrier allows normal tidal flow through its 65 sluice gates during non-emergency periods. Transitioning from the still Veerse Meer through the Katse Heule lock into the Oosterschelde brings a step-change in tidal conditions.