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Tides and sea conditions at Tangier

Mediterranean · 35.81°N 5.76°W

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Mediterranean Saïdia 0.2 m Cap de l’Eau (Ras El Ma) 0.2 m Nador 0.2 m Cape Three Forks 0.2 m Al Hoceima 0.2 m Cala Iris 0.2 m Jebha 0.2 m Oued Laou 0.3 m Martil 0.2 m M'diq 0.2 m Fnideq 0.3 m Ksar Sghir 0.4 m Tangier 0.6 m
North Atlantic Cape Spartel 0.6 m Asilah 0.8 m Larache 0.9 m Moulay Bousselham 0.9 m Mehdia 1.2 m Rabat 1.3 m Temara 1.2 m Skhirat 1.3 m Bouznika 1.3 m Mohammedia 1.4 m Casablanca 1.3 m Dar Bouazza 1.5 m
Central Atlantic El Jadida 1.4 m Sidi Abed 1.5 m Oualidia 1.4 m Cape Beddouza 1.4 m Safi 1.3 m Souira Kdima 1.4 m Essaouira 1.5 m Sidi Kaouki 1.3 m
South & Sahara Imsouane 1.5 m Tamri 1.4 m Cape Ghir 1.5 m Taghazout 1.2 m Anza 1 m Agadir 1 m Tifnit 1.2 m Sidi Rbat 1.3 m Aglou 1.4 m Mirleft 1.4 m Legzira 1.4 m Sidi Ifni 1.4 m Tan-Tan 0.9 m Akhfennir 1 m Tarfaya 0.6 m Foum El Oued 0.7 m Boujdour 0.7 m Dakhla 0.9 m
Right now Fair Calm sea, but stirred up over the past two days: visibility probably reduced. Strong current — significant drift.

Is the sea good for fishing at Tangier today?

Fair: you can go out, carefully — swell 0.6 m, wind 3 km/h.

Best day this week: Friday 6 November.

Tide times at Tangier today

coef. 61
  • Low water 04:27 · 0.8 m
  • High water 10:48 · 2.0 m
  • Low water 17:33 · 0.7 m
  • High water 23:30 · 1.9 m

Neap tides — small range, calmer slack water

Tomorrow : Low water 05:43 · High water 11:49 · Low water 18:29

Times and heights matched to SHOM's official predictions for the port of Tanger. Heights above chart datum.

Tide curve, daylight and moon ↓ Which tide to hunt on?
Swell 0.6m 9 s · NW
Period 9s longer = clearer water
Chop 0m wind waves
Wind 3km/h SE
Current 0.8m/s strong
Water 19.5°C

Swell easing — up to 1 m over the last two days, 0.6 m today. The water should clear. Sun 1 : 1 m · Mon 2 : 0.9 m

Tide 1.86 m · reading taken at 02:50

The next seven days

Best window : Friday 6 November — 0.5 m swell, 10 km/h wind.

Excellent Good Fair Poor
Tue 3 0.6 m 10 s 14 km/h Wed 4 0.5 m 12 s 16 km/h Thu 5 0.6 m 10 s 15 km/h Fri 6 0.5 m 10 s 10 km/h Sat 7 0.3 m 9 s 15 km/h Sun 8 0.6 m 11 s 17 km/h Mon 9 2.3 m 8 s 38 km/h

Each day is judged on its worst moment, not on its average. Bars share one scale: 0 to 3.0 m. Reliability drops off sharply beyond three days.

The day at a glance — Thursday 5 November

Twenty-four hours in blocks of two. Swell and wind carry the colour: white when there is nothing, tinted as soon as it builds. The header gives the overall verdict.

Hour 00:00 FAIR 02:00 FAIR 04:00 FAIR 06:00 GOOD 08:00 GOOD 10:00 FAIR 12:00 FAIR 14:00 FAIR 16:00 FAIR 18:00 EXC 20:00 FAIR 22:00 EXC
Swell m 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Wind km/h 5 5 5 4 4 13 15 15 12 9 3 2
Chop m 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.1 0 0 0
Period s 5 5 4 4 4 5 10 7 4 7 9 10
Current m/s 2.4 2.6 1.8 0.4 0.3 1.8 3.4 3.6 2.3 0.7 1.3 0.5
Water °C 20.6 20.5 20.4 20.3 20.2 20.2 20.3 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.5 20.4
Tide m 1.93 1.57 0.98 0.66 0.91 1.58 2.04 1.74 1.03 0.54 0.63 1.28

Swell, chop, wind and current: the block’s highest value. Period, water and tide: the average. Colour scales match Windy’s: white at rest, then cyan and green for wind, lavender and pink for swell, through to red and purple.

Planning the session — Thursday 5 November

Tides, light and moon of the day, to pick the hour.

Tides

Range 1.6 m · coef. 77
High water 00:27 · 2.0 m
Low water 06:42 · 0.6 m
High water 12:45 · 2.1 m
Low water 19:16 · 0.5 m

Light

First light07:22
Sunrise07:49
Sunset18:24
10 h 35 of daylight

Moon

Waning crescent

20 % lit

Air 16 to 21 °C

Hour by hour — Thursday 5 November

From 5 am to 9 pm.

Hour State Swell Period Chop Wind Current Tide Water
05:00 Fair 0.6 m 4 s W 0.3 m 4 km/h S 1 0.85 20.3
06:00 Good 0.6 m 4 s W 0.3 m 4 km/h S 0.4 0.68 20.3
07:00 Good 0.6 m 4 s W 0.3 m 4 km/h S 0.3 0.64 20.2
08:00 Good 0.6 m 4 s W 0.3 m 4 km/h S 0.3 0.78 20.2
09:00 Good 0.6 m 4 s W 0.3 m 4 km/h S 0.2 1.04 20.2
10:00 Fair 0.5 m 4 s SW 0.3 m 6 km/h S 0.9 1.4 20.2
11:00 Fair 0.5 m 6 s W 0.4 m 13 km/h S 1.8 1.76 20.2
12:00 Fair 0.5 m 9 s W 0.4 m 13 km/h SW 2.7 2.01 20.3
13:00 Fair 0.5 m 10 s NW 0.4 m 15 km/h SW 3.4 2.07 20.3
14:00 Fair 0.5 m 8 s W 0.3 m 15 km/h SW 3.6 1.9 20.3
15:00 Fair 0.5 m 5 s W 0.2 m 14 km/h SW 3.2 1.58 20.3
16:00 Fair 0.5 m 3 s W 0.1 m 12 km/h SW 2.3 1.2 20.4
17:00 Fair 0.5 m 4 s W 0.1 m 10 km/h SW 1.3 0.85 20.4
18:00 Excellent 0.5 m 6 s W 0 m 9 km/h W 0.2 0.6 20.5
19:00 Excellent 0.5 m 7 s NW 0 m 3 km/h W 0.7 0.48 20.5
20:00 Fair 0.5 m 8 s NW 0 m 2 km/h S 1.3 0.52 20.5
21:00 Fair 0.5 m 9 s NW 0 m 3 km/h SE 1.1 0.74 20.4

Elsewhere on the coast

The best conditions right now.

Cala Iris 0.2 m Excellent Jebha 0.2 m Excellent Tarfaya 0.6 m Excellent Boujdour 0.7 m Excellent Asilah 0.8 m Excellent Larache 0.9 m Excellent

How to read these numbers

Swell
Ground swell, significant height: the average of the highest third of the waves. The biggest ones run well above it.
Period
The time between two crests. Long period = clean, readable swell; short = confused sea.
Chop
The waves raised by the local wind. This is what stirs the bottom and destroys visibility, far more than the swell does.
Current
Beyond 0.8 m/s the drift becomes serious, even on a flat sea.
Tide
Height above chart datum, as in tide tables, matched to SHOM's predictions for the nearest reference port. In the Mediterranean the tide is only a few tens of centimetres: times are indicative.
Visibility
Not measured, anywhere. It is inferred from chop, swell and wind — judge it on the spot.

DWD, Météo-France and Copernicus Marine models via Open-Meteo. Roughly 9 km resolution: two neighbouring locations can share the same value. Refreshed every 30 minutes.