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The next four highs and lows for any of Florida’s ten coastal fishing regions, pulled live from the nearest NOAA station and shown in that region’s own time zone. Pick your water once; this page remembers it.
Today’s tides
Times are local to the station — the western Panhandle is Central time. Heights are feet above mean lower low water.
Which station each region uses
NOAA keeps its gauges at inlets and harbours, not on the flats you fish, so every region here is tied to the nearest reference station. The further you are from it, the more the timing drifts — up a river or deep in a bay the tide arrives later and smaller than at the mouth.
| Region | NOAA station | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville / NE Florida | Mayport, St. Johns River entrance (8720218) | The river runs hard; upriver timing lags the jetties. |
| Mosquito Lagoon | Ponce de Leon Inlet (8721138) | Wind moves the lagoon more than the moon does. |
| Indian River Lagoon | Fort Pierce Inlet, South Jetty (8722212) | Same story: a real tide at the inlet, wind-driven inside. |
| Southeast Coast | Virginia Key, Miami (8723214) | Clean semidiurnal tides — two highs, two lows, every day. |
| Florida Keys | Key West (8724580) | Oceanside and bayside can run an hour or more apart. |
| Everglades / Flamingo | Naples Bay (8725114) | Florida Bay and Flamingo run later and smaller. |
| Charlotte Harbor | Fort Myers (8725520) | A river gauge; the Gulf passes turn earlier. |
| Tampa Bay | St. Petersburg (8726520) | Mixed tides: some days bring only one real high and low. |
| Cedar Key / Nature Coast | Cedar Key (8727520) | A big range for the Gulf; the flats drain a long way out. |
| Panhandle | Pensacola (8729840) | Diurnal — one high, one low most days — and Central time. |
How to fish a tide
Moving water is the whole game. Bait gets pushed, predators set up on the down-current side of whatever breaks the flow, and the bite usually switches on an hour or so into the move and dies at slack. Most inshore anglers plan around the last two hours of the incoming and the first two of the outgoing, but the right answer depends on the spot: a mangrove shoreline fishes on the flood, a pass or creek mouth fishes on the drain. The height column matters too — a 0.2-foot low on a flat that needs a foot of water is a low you walk, not wade.
Two honest caveats
Lagoons. Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River are barely tidal away from the inlets. A strong wind will raise or drop the water more than the predicted tide; read the wind first and the tide second.
Predictions, not observations. These are NOAA’s astronomical predictions. A sustained onshore blow, a front or a storm surge will move real water well off the chart. For what the gauge is actually reading right now, open the station link under the card.
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