Rincon Point tidal current predictions

Now

Flood 2.0 ktToward SSE (149°)

Next slack

Sat 12:28 AMPDT

Next max flood

2.1 kt9:27 PM

Next max ebb

2.5 ktSat 3:28 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward SSE (149°); below it the ebb, running out toward NNW (333°). Times are Pacific Daylight Time. Today: ebb 2.5 kt 2:48 AM, slack 6:28 AM, flood 2.1 kt 9:24 AM, slack 12:44 PM, ebb 2.3 kt 3:34 PM, slack 6:49 PM, flood 2.1 kt 9:27 PM.

None right now. The National Weather Service issues small craft advisories, gale and storm warnings, special marine warnings, dense fog advisories and coastal flood products for water like this.

The flood is the tidal current running in from the sea, the ebb the current running back out. Slack water is the short turn between them, when the current is weakest: the time to cross a strong channel, anchor, or dive. Slack in a channel is not the time of high or low tide; it can come hours after.

Speeds are knots along the channel's main axis, and directions are degrees true toward which the water flows, as NOAA prints its tables. A current against the wind stands the waves up steep and close together.

Predictions are astronomical: the moon and the sun, not the weather. Strong wind, river flow after heavy rain and storm surge all change the real current.

• Bay Bridge, Span B-CHarmonic current station0.5 mi
• Bay Bridge, Pier DHarmonic current station0.7 mi
• Rincon Point, midbaySubordinate current station1.2 mi
• Mission Rock, 0.6 mile east ofSubordinate current station1.2 mi
• Yerba Buena Island, 0.3 nmi. SE ofSubordinate current station1.3 mi
• Yerba Buena Island, west of (midchannel)Harmonic current station1.5 mi
• Mission Rock, 1.3 mile east ofSubordinate current station1.5 mi
• Oakland Inner Harbor LB4Current meter (NOAA PORTS)1.6 mi

• Tide times at Rincon Point, Pier 22 1/2 0.7 mi
• Tide times at Yerba Buena Island 1.5 mi
• Tide times at Oakland Middle Harbor 2.2 mi
• Forecast for Chinatown, CA
• Open the live map with tidal currents
• All tidal current stations in California

Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station SFB1217, bin 16: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.