Tides / New Zealand / Stewart Island / Scott Base
Scott Base
Tide station
Scott Base in Stewart Island, New Zealand. Heights are metres above lowest astronomical tide. Tide times on this page are local time at this station (NZDT). 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 Scott Base. 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.
Sunday
The moon is a first quarter, about 41% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 3:52 AM and sunset is 11:31 PM. The tides are a high of 1.2 m at 8:06 AM and a low of 0.4 m at 5:58 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted. The forecast is Fog, -8°C, wind 18 kn E.
Monday
The moon is a first quarter, about 52% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 3:39 AM and sunset is 11:44 PM. The tides are a high of 1.2 m at 8:45 AM and a low of 0.4 m at 6:51 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted. The forecast is Snow, -7°C, wind 20 kn SE. That forecast is rough water.
Tuesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 63% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 3:24 AM and sunset is 12:00 AM. The tides are a high of 1.1 m at 9:17 AM and a low of 0.5 m at 7:32 PM. No high or low this day falls within two hours of sunrise or sunset, so this day is not highlighted. The forecast is Fog, -7°C, wind 14 kn S.
Wednesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 72% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 3:07 AM and sunset is 12:18 AM. The tides are a high of 1.0 m at 9:44 AM and a low of 0.5 m at 7:39 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, -8°C, wind 16 kn SE.
Thursday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 81% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 2:47 AM and sunset is 12:41 AM. The tides are a high of 0.9 m at 10:04 AM, a low of 0.6 m at 6:51 PM, and a high of 0.6 m at 11:26 PM. The high at 11:26 PM is 75 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Partly cloudy, -7°C, wind 11 kn E.
Thursday is the day in this snapshot where a turn meets sunrise or sunset.
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Sun and moon
- First light
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Nautical twilight begins
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Dawn
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Blue hour, morning
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Golden hour, morning
- 6:39 AM
- Sunrise
- 3:56 AM
- Solar noon
- 1:38 PM
- Golden hour, evening
- 8:42 PM
- Sunset
- 11:31 PM
- Blue hour, evening
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Dusk
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Nautical twilight ends
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Last light
- Not calculated at this latitude today
- Day length
- 19 hours 34 minutes
- Moon
- First Quarter, about 43% lit
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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