A Coruña, Galicia 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/Madrid local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Sun 17 May (range 3.7m). 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.

A Coruña sits on a long peninsula that juts into the Atlantic on the rugged north-western corner of Spain — the Galician Costa da Morte, the coast of death, named for centuries of shipwrecks along the cliff bases. The tide here runs the largest range on the Iberian Atlantic outside the Bay of Biscay, with mean range at the harbour close to 2.7 metres, semidiurnal, two highs and two lows about twelve and a half hours apart. Spring tides push near 4 metres at the equinoxes when astronomical forcing peaks; neaps drop close to 1.2 metres. The classic Galician feature is the rías — long, deep coastal inlets carved by drowned river valleys that run inland for tens of kilometres. The Ría de A Coruña is one of the smaller examples; the Rías Altas further east at Ferrol, Ortigueira, and Viveiro run for 20 to 30 km inland, and inside each ría the tide amplifies slightly toward the head while the timing lags the open coast by 30 to 60 minutes. Walkers on the long Riazor and Orzán beaches at the foot of the city see meaningful beach-width changes through the cycle; percebes harvesters working the cliff bases at Cabo Vilán and Cabo Fisterra time their excursions to the lowest spring lows; mussel-raft (bateas) operators in the Ría de Arousa further south coordinate the harvest week around the new and full moons. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this site — useful for daily planning but not navigation-grade. Puertos del Estado runs the authoritative Spanish tide gauge network.