Tides / Massachusetts / Barnstable County / Wellfleet
Wellfleet
Tide station
NOAA station Wellfleet in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Heights are feet above mean lower low water. Tide times on this page are local time at this station (EDT). If you are in another timezone, these clocks are not your phone's time. People also look this chart up as Eastham and Truro. NOAA adjusts this prediction from BOSTON.
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Tide station
Predicted rise and fall
This column is the NOAA prediction. It is the expected high and low from the moon and the sun, in feet above mean lower low water. It is not a flood warning, and it is not the depth under the boat.
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Five-day fishing snapshot
This is the next five days at Wellfleet. It uses the tide prediction at this station, the sun and moon at this coordinate, and the National Weather Service 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.
Thursday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 19% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 6:52 AM and sunset is 5:59 PM. The tides are a high of 9.3 ft at 3:09 AM, a low of 1.8 ft at 9:19 AM, a high of 10.2 ft at 3:13 PM, and a low of 1.0 ft at 9:56 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted.
Friday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 28% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset is 5:57 PM. The tides are a high of 8.9 ft at 3:55 AM, a low of 2.2 ft at 10:04 AM, a high of 9.9 ft at 4:00 PM, and a low of 1.4 ft at 10:45 PM. The high at 4:00 PM is 117 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Rain Showers, 69°F, wind 9 to 16 mph S.
Saturday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 38% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 6:55 AM and sunset is 5:56 PM. The tides are a high of 8.6 ft at 4:45 AM, a low of 2.5 ft at 10:54 AM, a high of 9.6 ft at 4:51 PM, and a low of 1.7 ft at 11:37 PM. The high at 4:51 PM is 65 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Chance Rain Showers, 52°F, wind 17 to 22 mph NW.
Sunday
The moon is a first quarter, about 49% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset is 5:54 PM. The tides are a high of 8.4 ft at 5:40 AM, a low of 2.7 ft at 11:49 AM, and a high of 9.4 ft at 5:47 PM. The high at 5:40 AM is 76 minutes before sunrise. The high at 5:47 PM is 7 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Sunny, 55°F, wind 8 to 12 mph NW.
Monday
The moon is a first quarter, about 60% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset is 5:53 PM. The tides are a low of 1.8 ft at 12:32 AM, a high of 8.4 ft at 6:35 AM, a low of 2.6 ft at 12:45 PM, and a high of 9.3 ft at 6:43 PM. The high at 6:35 AM is 22 minutes before sunrise. The high at 6:43 PM is 50 minutes after sunset. The forecast is Slight Chance Rain Showers, 59°F, wind 8 to 12 mph S.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are the days in this snapshot where a turn meets sunrise or sunset.
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Sun and moon
- First light
- 5:19 AM
- Nautical twilight begins
- 5:52 AM
- Dawn
- 6:24 AM
- Blue hour, morning
- 6:24 AM to 6:35 AM
- Golden hour, morning
- 6:35 AM to 7:30 AM
- Sunrise
- 6:52 AM
- Solar noon
- 12:26 PM
- Golden hour, evening
- 5:21 PM to 6:16 PM
- Sunset
- 5:59 PM
- Blue hour, evening
- 6:16 PM to 6:27 PM
- Dusk
- 6:27 PM
- Nautical twilight ends
- 6:59 PM
- Last light
- 7:32 PM
- Day length
- 11 hours 7 minutes
- Moon
- Waxing Crescent, about 23% lit
- Moonrise
- 12:10 PM
- Moonset
- 8:40 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.
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On the water nearby
The closest named places from OpenStreetMap. A place with no name on that map is left off. Private and customer-only launches are labeled.
Boat ramps
- Salt Pond Landing7.4 mi
Beaches
- Mayo Beachunder 0.1 mi
- Powers Landing0.4 mi
- Long Pond Beach1.9 mi
- Duck Harbor Beach2.0 mi
- Great Pond Beach2.2 mi
- Gull Pond Beach2.3 mi
Parks
- Cannon Hill Park0.9 mi
- Mill Field4.4 mi
- Mill Field4.4 mi
- Snows Field5.0 mi
- Three Sisters of Nauset6.5 mi
- Wiley Park7.1 mi
Nature reserves
- Mayo Creek · private0.7 mi
- Breakwater Beach Ii0.7 mi
- Duck Creek (Dubeau) Cr1.0 mi
- Taylor Road Wellfleet Harbor · private1.0 mi
- Duck Creek1.0 mi
- Taylor Rd., Wellfleet Harbor · private1.0 mi
Nearby tide stations
- Provincetown11 mi · Barnstable County
- Sesuit Harbor14 mi · Barnstable County
- Pleasant Bay14 mi · Barnstable County
- Chatham Harbor17 mi · Barnstable County
- Saquatucket Harbor18 mi · Barnstable County
- Wychmere Harbor18 mi · Barnstable County
Flood gauge
Measured water, not the tide
This column is a different instrument. A flood gauge reports the water level that is there now and the stages where flooding starts. The orange square on the map is that gauge. It is often not on top of the tide station.
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