Tides / New Zealand / Northland / Boat Cove
Boat Cove
Tide station
Boat Cove in Northland, New Zealand. Heights are metres above lowest astronomical tide. Tide times on this page are local time at this station (+12). 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 Boat Cove. 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 5:30 AM and sunset is 6:18 PM. The tides are a low of 0.3 m at 5:12 AM, a high of 1.1 m at 11:26 AM, a low of 0.5 m at 5:27 PM, and a high of 1.1 m at 11:27 PM. The low at 5:27 PM is 51 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Partly cloudy, 17°C, wind 22 kn SE. That forecast is rough water.
Sunday
The moon is a first quarter, about 42% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset is 6:19 PM. The tides are a low of 0.4 m at 5:53 AM, a high of 1.1 m at 12:09 PM, and a low of 0.5 m at 6:12 PM. The low at 6:12 PM is 7 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Partly cloudy, 17°C, wind 22 kn SE. That forecast is rough water.
Monday
The moon is a first quarter, about 52% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset is 6:20 PM. The tides are a high of 1.1 m at 12:11 AM, a low of 0.4 m at 6:38 AM, a high of 1.0 m at 12:56 PM, and a low of 0.5 m at 7:01 PM. The low at 7:01 PM is 41 minutes after sunset. The forecast is Partly cloudy, 18°C, wind 19 kn SE.
Tuesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 63% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 5:27 AM and sunset is 6:20 PM. The tides are a high of 1.0 m at 1:00 AM, a low of 0.5 m at 7:27 AM, a high of 1.0 m at 1:49 PM, and a low of 0.6 m at 7:56 PM. The low at 7:56 PM is 96 minutes after sunset. The forecast is Partly cloudy, 18°C, wind 17 kn SE.
Wednesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 73% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 5:26 AM and sunset is 6:21 PM. The tides are a high of 1.0 m at 1:57 AM, a low of 0.5 m at 8:21 AM, a high of 1.0 m at 2:44 PM, and a low of 0.5 m at 8:56 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted. The forecast is Clear, 18°C, wind 16 kn SE.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday are the days in this snapshot where a turn meets sunrise or sunset.
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Sun and moon
- First light
- 4:07 AM
- Nautical twilight begins
- 4:37 AM
- Dawn
- 5:05 AM
- Blue hour, morning
- 5:05 AM to 5:15 AM
- Golden hour, morning
- 5:15 AM to 6:01 AM
- Sunrise
- 5:29 AM
- Solar noon
- 11:54 AM
- Golden hour, evening
- 5:47 PM to 6:34 PM
- Sunset
- 6:19 PM
- Blue hour, evening
- 6:34 PM to 6:43 PM
- Dusk
- 6:43 PM
- Nautical twilight ends
- 7:12 PM
- Last light
- 7:41 PM
- Day length
- 12 hours 49 minutes
- Moon
- First Quarter, about 35% lit
- Moonrise
- 9:39 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.