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Anyone have any good tide time and height websites?
Next week's UK tides: http://www.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/easytide/SelectPort.aspx. I'm sure the data is fine (if you're near a port) but the website is rubbish.
https://www.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/EasyTide/index.aspx is the easiest for UK waters, if you only want 7 days ahead.
If you want more than 7 days, try http://www.wxtide32.com/ I had a version of this I downloaded some time ago. Some security programs think it's a trojan, but the suspected trojan is years newer than the file I have so I think it's a false positive. (Edit - further study of the WXTide website suggests it may not be as comprehensive as it used to be for UK waters.)
I tend to use https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/ - due to coyright most websites (all tend to use UKHO data) only offer the next 7 days tides FOC - further in the future need to buy the years' dataset.
Is it for one particular area or everywhere round the coast? Most fishing tackle shops sell tide table books for their locality that show the years tides, theyr'e usually about £1.
Nice one. Thanks everyone. That sort of confirmed what I thought. Licensing limits most sites to 7 days.
Its only a couple of locations I'm looking at, but would like long term predictions. I was going to subscribe to the Admiralty data, but perhaps I'll try and source some local printed tables.
Ooooh, that tidetimes site sells books for £1.75. Fab.
I have a Tides app on my phone. There isn't a 7-day restriction.
I was going to subscribe to the Admiralty data
As it says on their website, from August last year there is no subscription version.
Absolute Tides app is good.
It's about £3 a year for a year of data, next calendar year seems to publish late summer so at the moment I can see through to 31 December for a whole bunch of ports (only view 1 at a time).
Now I'm just getting confused. The Tide-Forecast site that Snaps linked to has considerable different info on it to some of the others. The tidetimes.org.uk and ukho.gov.uk seem to agree.
So is it that there is some ambiguity in calculations or that some sites are just wrong?
The UKHO and NTSLF site redthunder linked to are accurate for the ports they report on, but you have to interpolate between. For specific river estuaries it is always best to pay for the tide table book when a Council / port or harbour authority has one.
Are the tide times / heights different by a few minutes / cm or more substantial than that? There might be differences in the calcs / methods used.
Nice one. Thanks everyone. That sort of confirmed what I thought. Licensing limits most sites to 7 days.
This goes further ahead and is free.
Do note the UKHO ans NTSLF give times in UTC by default so you have to add the hour on for British Summer Time, there is a drop down in the UKHO website.