Tides / Australia / New South Wales / Forster
Forster
Tide station
Forster in New South Wales, Australia. Heights are metres above lowest astronomical tide. Tide times on this page are local time at this station (AEDT). If you are in another timezone, these clocks are not your phone's time.
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Tide station
Predicted rise and fall
This column is the predicted rise and fall from the moon and the sun, in metres. It is not a flood warning, and it is not the depth under the boat. The clocks are local time at this station.
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Five-day fishing snapshot
This is the next five days at Forster. It uses the tide prediction at this station, the sun and moon at this coordinate, and the MET Norway forecast. A day is highlighted when a high or low falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset. Tide and sun times are local time at this station.
Saturday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 32% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 6:09 AM and sunset is 7:03 PM. The tides are a high of 0.9 m at 1:09 AM, a low of 0.6 m at 6:25 AM, a high of 1.3 m at 1:19 PM, and a low of 0.5 m at 8:22 PM. The low at 8:22 PM is 79 minutes after sunset. The forecast is Rain, 19°C, wind 13 kn E.
Sunday
The moon is a first quarter, about 42% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 6:08 AM and sunset is 7:04 PM. The tides are a high of 0.9 m at 2:23 AM, a low of 0.6 m at 7:24 AM, a high of 1.2 m at 2:19 PM, and a low of 0.5 m at 9:32 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted. The forecast is Rain, 20°C, wind 14 kn NE.
Monday
The moon is a first quarter, about 53% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 6:06 AM and sunset is 7:04 PM. The tides are a high of 0.9 m at 3:44 AM, a low of 0.6 m at 8:37 AM, a high of 1.2 m at 3:24 PM, and a low of 0.5 m at 10:35 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted. The forecast is Rain, 20°C, wind 16 kn NE.
Tuesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 63% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 6:05 AM and sunset is 7:05 PM. The tides are a high of 0.9 m at 4:53 AM, a low of 0.6 m at 9:54 AM, a high of 1.2 m at 4:26 PM, and a low of 0.4 m at 11:26 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted. The forecast is Partly cloudy, 21°C, wind 13 kn N.
Wednesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 73% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 6:04 AM and sunset is 7:06 PM. The tides are a high of 1.0 m at 5:44 AM, a low of 0.6 m at 11:02 AM, and a high of 1.3 m at 5:20 PM. The high at 5:20 PM is 106 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Rain, 21°C, wind 15 kn NE.
Saturday and Wednesday are the days in this snapshot where a turn meets sunrise or sunset.
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Sun and moon
- First light
- 4:43 AM
- Nautical twilight begins
- 5:13 AM
- Dawn
- 5:43 AM
- Blue hour, morning
- 5:43 AM to 5:53 AM
- Golden hour, morning
- 5:53 AM to 6:41 AM
- Sunrise
- 6:08 AM
- Solar noon
- 12:35 PM
- Golden hour, evening
- 6:31 PM to 7:19 PM
- Sunset
- 7:03 PM
- Blue hour, evening
- 7:19 PM to 7:29 PM
- Dusk
- 7:29 PM
- Nautical twilight ends
- 7:58 PM
- Last light
- 8:29 PM
- Day length
- 12 hours 55 minutes
- Moon
- First Quarter, about 35% lit
- Moonrise
- 10:15 AM
- Moonset
- 12:28 AM
The larger tides, called spring tides, fall near the new moon and the full moon. The smaller neap tides fall near the quarters. Light times are for this coordinate, in local time at this station.
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Hart-Davis, Michael; Dettmering, Denise; Seitz, Florian (2025). TICON-4: TIdal CONstants based on GESLA-4 sea-level records. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/109129. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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