Tide charts for California beaches

The next low tide and today's tide pool window at 12 beaches from San Francisco to San Diego, or at the one closest to you.

Each beach has its own tide chart page with the week ahead, a monthly calendar and the water level right now. Every time and height comes from NOAA predictions, refreshed every week.

Predictions updated Thursday, October 1 at 11:40 PM. Times are Pacific time; heights are in feet above mean lower low water (MLLW).

Find tide pools and tides near you

Tide schedule near me

Press the button and your browser asks once for your location. The page then picks the closest of our 12 beaches and shows its next low tide, today's low tides and today's tide pool window.

Your location stays on your device: the distance is worked out on this page, and the location is not sent anywhere or saved.

Pick your beach from the list of beaches below.

Next low tide at California beaches

On Thursday, October 1, none of the 10 beaches we rate for tide pools has a tide pool window. The next one is at Laguna Beach, Thursday, October 8 at 2:23 PM, 0.6 ft.

Beaches are listed north to south. A tide pool window is a low tide of 1.0 ft or lower between sunrise and sunset; beaches with one still to come today are marked in orange.

San Francisco tide chart
NOAA station Golden Gate, near San Francisco.
Next low tide 3.4 ft, Friday, October 2 at 9:41 AM
Tide pools are not rated for San Francisco on this site. Closest rated beach: Half Moon Bay tide pools.
Half Moon Bay tide chart
NOAA station Pillar Point Harbor, near Half Moon Bay.
Next low tide 3.2 ft, Friday, October 2 at 8:23 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 4:02 PM, 0.8 ft.
Santa Cruz tide chart
NOAA station Santa Cruz, near Santa Cruz.
Next low tide 3.2 ft, Friday, October 2 at 8:05 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 3:38 PM, 1.0 ft.
Monterey tide chart
NOAA station Monterey, near Monterey.
Next low tide 3.3 ft, Friday, October 2 at 8:16 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 3:49 PM, 1.0 ft.
Pismo Beach tide chart
NOAA station Port San Luis, 11 km west of Pismo Beach.
Next low tide 3.3 ft, Friday, October 2 at 7:36 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 3:22 PM, 0.9 ft.
Santa Barbara tide chart
NOAA station Santa Barbara, near Santa Barbara.
Next low tide 3.1 ft, Friday, October 2 at 6:51 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 2:58 PM, 0.8 ft.
Malibu tide chart
NOAA station Santa Monica Pier, 26 km east of Malibu.
Next low tide 3.0 ft, Friday, October 2 at 6:16 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 2:40 PM, 0.7 ft.
Huntington Beach tide chart
NOAA station Balboa Pier, 11 km southeast of Huntington Beach.
Next low tide 3.0 ft, Friday, October 2 at 6:11 AM
Tide pools are not rated for Huntington Beach on this site. Closest rated beach: Newport Beach tide pools.
Newport Beach tide chart
NOAA station Newport Bay Entrance, near Newport Beach.
Next low tide 3.0 ft, Friday, October 2 at 6:00 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 2:37 PM, 0.6 ft.
Laguna Beach tide chart
NOAA station San Clemente, 20 km southeast of Laguna Beach.
Next low tide 2.9 ft, Friday, October 2 at 5:44 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 2:23 PM, 0.6 ft.
La Jolla tide chart
NOAA station Scripps Pier, near La Jolla.
Next low tide 3.0 ft, Friday, October 2 at 5:57 AM
No tide pool window on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 2:31 PM, 0.6 ft.
San Diego tide chart
NOAA station San Diego Bay (Broadway), near San Diego; tide pool windows from NOAA station Point Loma, 8 km southwest of San Diego.
Next low tide 3.1 ft, Friday, October 2 at 5:55 AM
No tide pool window at Point Loma on Thursday, October 1. Next: Thursday, October 8 at 2:32 PM, 0.6 ft.

10 of the 12 beaches have tide pool ratings. Each beach's tide chart lists every tide pool window of the next 30 days.

How to read a tide chart

A tide chart plots the predicted water level through the day. This one is for Half Moon Bay on Thursday, October 1. The line climbs to high tides of 3.9 ft at 3:12 AM and 6.0 ft at 1:51 PM and drops to low tides of 2.9 ft at 7:32 AM and −0.2 ft at 9:32 PM. The gap between the highest and the lowest water, 6.2 ft, is that day's tidal range.

Heights are measured from mean lower low water (MLLW), the average height of each day's lower low tide, so the lowest tides can fall below the 0 ft line. The 9:32 PM low, at −0.2 ft, is one of those negative tides.

None of the lows is a tide pool window, which on this site means a low tide of 1.0 ft or lower between sunrise and sunset. The lowest water of the day comes in the shaded night.

The guide on how to read a tide chart labels every part of a chart, from higher and lower highs to the tide pool band, and explains our weekly tide table and monthly calendar.

Half Moon Bay tide chart for Thursday, October 1

Heights in feet above mean lower low water (MLLW); the dashed line is 0 ft. Shaded parts are night.

Predictions from NOAA station Pillar Point Harbor, near Half Moon Bay.

Plan a trip around the tide

California tide charts
All 12 beaches side by side, with the best tide pool day of the next 30 days at each one and the highest predicted tides of the 2026–27 king tide season.
Grunion run schedule
Expected grunion run nights from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the tide charts for the beaches where we cover them.
Solunar calendar
Major and minor solunar periods for fishing at each of the 12 beaches, for today, this week and the month.
Best tide for fishing
Whether to fish the high or the low tide, the incoming or the outgoing one, from the surf, the beach or a pier.