Bergen, Vestland 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/Oslo local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Mon 18 May (range 1.3m). 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.

Bergen sits on the Byfjorden — an inner fjord branch of the long Sognefjord and Hardangerfjord system on Norway's western coast. The tide here runs a moderate semidiurnal signal that the long fjord network amplifies and reshapes as it propagates inland from the open North Sea. Mean range at the Bergen gauge is about 1.0 metre, climbing past 1.3 metres on spring tides and dropping near 0.6 on neaps. The pattern is two highs and two lows about twelve and a half hours apart. Inside the long fjords the tide propagates as a free wave and the height grows slightly toward the head of each fjord, while the timing lags the open coast by 30 to 60 minutes. The Bergen harbour itself — Vågen, with the working fish market at Torget at its head and the cruise terminal at Bontelabo — sits on the inner edge of Byfjorden where the swing is gentle but predictable. The Hanseatic wharf at Bryggen has weathered seven and a half centuries of these tide cycles. Salmon fishers in the river-mouth zones at the Lærdalselva and the Vosso, ferry skippers running the long fjord lines to Sognefjord and Hardangerfjord, and tour operators on the Mostraumen current rapids at the inner fjord narrows each read the table for different windows. North Sea storm surge from winter Atlantic lows can lift levels 30 cm or more above predicted; the harmonic signal here is more coastal than oceanic. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page; the Norwegian Mapping Authority (Kartverket) Sjødivisjonen runs the authoritative gauge network and tide tables.