Auckland (Waitematā) 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 16:00 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 Pacific/Auckland local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Mon 18 May (range 2.8m). 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.

Auckland sits on a narrow isthmus on the upper North Island of New Zealand, with two harbours pressing in from opposite sides — the Waitematā opening east into the Hauraki Gulf and the open Pacific, and the Manukau opening west into the Tasman Sea. That geography means the city has a tide on each side of itself, with different timing and slightly different range. The Waitematā gauge near the ferry terminal at the foot of Queen Street runs a cleanly semidiurnal signal — two highs and two lows of comparable size each day, twelve and a half hours apart — with a mean range of about 2.5 metres climbing past 3.2 on spring tides and dropping near 1.6 on neaps. The Manukau on the west side runs a similar pattern but with high water reaching it about three hours later than the Waitematā, because the Tasman tide propagates around the top of the North Island via Cape Reinga. That east-vs-west offset is part of the local navigation lore for the harbour pilots and the Devonport, Half Moon Bay, and Waiheke ferry skippers. The Hauraki Gulf is dotted with islands — Rangitoto, Waiheke, Great Barrier, Little Barrier — and the tide changes the day for kayakers crossing to Rangitoto, snorkellers at Goat Island marine reserve up the coast, fishers on the Coromandel side, yacht crews leaving the Viaduct Basin for the gulf, and walkers on the Browns Bay and Cheltenham foreshore tidal flats. Lowest spring lows around new and full moons open the rocky intertidal at Long Bay Regional Park and Cheltenham Beach for hours either side. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page; for authoritative New Zealand tide data, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) publishes the official tide tables and operates the reference gauge network.