Tides / Australia / Queensland / Cairns
Cairns
Tide station
Cairns in Queensland, Australia. Heights are metres above lowest astronomical tide. Tide times on this page are local time at this station (AEST). If you are in another timezone, these clocks are not your phone's time.
Loading the next high and low.
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.
Loading the tide table.
Five-day fishing snapshot
This is the next five days at Cairns. 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.
Friday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 23% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 5:49 AM and sunset is 6:17 PM. The tides are a low of 1.1 m at 2:52 AM and a high of 2.1 m at 4:02 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, 27°C, wind 10 kn E.
Saturday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 32% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 5:48 AM and sunset is 6:17 PM. The tides are a low of 1.2 m at 2:05 AM and a high of 2.2 m at 4:44 PM. The high at 4:44 PM is 93 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Rain, 27°C, wind 12 kn SE.
Sunday
The moon is a first quarter, about 43% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 5:47 AM and sunset is 6:17 PM. The tides are a low of 1.2 m at 12:41 AM, a high of 1.5 m at 5:50 AM, a low of 1.3 m at 10:07 AM, and a high of 2.3 m at 5:12 PM. The high at 5:12 PM is 65 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Rain, 28°C, wind 14 kn SE.
Monday
The moon is a first quarter, about 53% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 5:47 AM and sunset is 6:18 PM. The tides are a low of 1.1 m at 12:20 AM, a high of 1.6 m at 5:44 AM, a low of 1.2 m at 10:55 AM, and a high of 2.5 m at 5:37 PM. The high at 5:37 PM is 41 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Rain, 26°C, wind 13 kn S.
Tuesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 64% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 5:46 AM and sunset is 6:18 PM. The tides are a low of 1.0 m at 12:20 AM, a high of 1.8 m at 5:59 AM, a low of 1.0 m at 11:29 AM, and a high of 2.6 m at 6:00 PM. The high at 6:00 PM is 18 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Rain, 27°C, wind 8 kn SE.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday are the days in this snapshot where a turn meets sunrise or sunset.
Loading average tide levels.
Sun and moon
- First light
- 4:35 AM
- Nautical twilight begins
- 5:00 AM
- Dawn
- 5:26 AM
- Blue hour, morning
- 5:26 AM to 5:35 AM
- Golden hour, morning
- 5:35 AM to 6:17 AM
- Sunrise
- 5:48 AM
- Solar noon
- 12:03 PM
- Golden hour, evening
- 5:48 PM to 6:31 PM
- Sunset
- 6:17 PM
- Blue hour, evening
- 6:31 PM to 6:39 PM
- Dusk
- 6:39 PM
- Nautical twilight ends
- 7:05 PM
- Last light
- 7:31 PM
- Day length
- 12 hours 29 minutes
- Moon
- Waxing Crescent, about 27% lit
- Moonrise
- 9:32 AM
- Moonset
- 11:14 PM
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.
Loading the forecast.
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.
Nearby tide stations
- Port Douglas37 mi · Queensland
- Mourilyan Harbour52 mi · Queensland
- Clump Point67 mi · Queensland
- Cardwell93 mi · Queensland
- Cooktown107 mi · Queensland
- Lucinda Offshore117 mi · Queensland