Dubai 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 08:00 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 Asia/Dubai local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Tue 19 May (range 2.1m). 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.

Dubai sits on the Persian Gulf coast of the Arabian Peninsula, the second-largest of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates and the working financial and logistics capital between Europe, South Asia, and East Africa. The natural Khor Dubai inlet runs inland for about ten kilometres from the open Gulf and historically separated the original trading districts of Deira on the north bank from Bur Dubai on the south. Dredged-channel works through the twentieth century deepened the inlet for working dhows and small commercial vessels, and the modern Mina Rashid container port at the inlet mouth handled the bulk of the emirate's container traffic before the Jebel Ali superport replaced it on the south-western coast. The tide here is a moderate mixed semidiurnal signal modulated by the partially enclosed Persian Gulf basin: mean range at the Port Rashid gauge is about 1.4 metres, climbing past 2.0 metres on the largest spring tides and dropping near 0.6 on neaps. Two highs and two lows of unequal size each day, with the asymmetry varying through the lunar month and shifting toward strongly diurnal at certain phases. The Persian Gulf is shallow with an average depth of about 50 metres and connects to the open Indian Ocean only through the Strait of Hormuz between Oman and Iran, so the astronomical forcing propagates as a co-oscillating wave that builds amphidromic patterns across the basin rather than acting as a directly forced tide. The defining engineered features are the offshore reclaimed-island archipelagos. The Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali, and the World Islands were dredged from Gulf seabed sand during the 2000s, and the cuts between the palm fronds carry tidal exchange that the engineers had to design for to prevent stagnation in the inner marina basins. The Burj Al Arab silhouette rises from its own offshore sand pad immediately west of Jumeirah Beach. Working dhow traders bound for the Iranian Bandar Abbas coast and the East African Mombasa-and-Zanzibar circuit, abra ferries crossing the Khor between the gold and spice souks of Deira and Bur Dubai, the snorkellers reading the inner-shelf access at the Dubai Marine Reserve off Jebel Ali, and the working container terminals at Jebel Ali Free Zone all read the table for different windows. The UAE National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology and the Dubai Maritime City Authority publish authoritative tide tables; Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page.