Miami Harbor Entrance tidal current predictions

Now

Ebb 2.6 ktToward ESE (114°)

Next slack

5:28 AMEDT

Next max flood

2.9 kt8:14 AM

Next max ebb

3.0 kt2:07 AM

Knots along the channel: above the line the flood, running in toward WNW (293°); below it the ebb, running out toward ESE (114°). Times are Eastern Daylight Time. Today: ebb 3.0 kt 2:07 AM, slack 5:28 AM, flood 2.9 kt 8:14 AM, slack 11:42 AM, ebb 2.8 kt 2:38 PM, slack 5:52 PM, flood 2.5 kt 8:27 PM, slack 11:41 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.

• West entrance, south sideHarmonic current station0.2 mi
• South JettyHarmonic current station0.5 mi
• Fisher Island Turning BasinHarmonic current station0.6 mi
• Pilot HouseHarmonic current station0.7 mi
• Norris CutHarmonic current station1.1 mi
• Main Ship ChannelHarmonic current station1.6 mi
• Lummus Island, SW cornerHarmonic current station1.7 mi
• Lummus Island Turning BasinHarmonic current station2.1 mi

• Tide times at Government Cut, Miami Harbor Entrance 0.3 mi
• Tide times at Miami Harbor Entrance 0.3 mi
• Tide times at Dodge Island, Fishermans Channel 2.2 mi
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Tidal current predictions from NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), station MIH0901, bin 9: original at NOAA. Marine alerts from the National Weather Service.