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Buffalo Bayou
Tide station
NOAA station Buffalo Bayou, Houston Ship Channel in Harris County, Texas. Heights are feet above mean lower low water. Tide times on this page are local time at this station (CDT). If you are in another timezone, these clocks are not your phone's time. People also look this chart up as Houston.
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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 Buffalo Bayou. 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.
Friday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 29% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset is 6:50 PM. The tides are a high of 2.1 ft at 4:11 AM and a low of 0.3 ft at 7:44 PM. The low at 7:44 PM is 54 minutes after sunset. The forecast is Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Sunny, 75°F, wind 5 to 20 mph N. That forecast is rough water.
Saturday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 39% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset is 6:49 PM. The tides are a high of 2.1 ft at 5:33 AM and a low of 0.3 ft at 8:57 PM. The high at 5:33 AM is 111 minutes before sunrise. The forecast is Sunny, 69°F, wind 10 to 15 mph N.
Sunday
The moon is a first quarter, about 49% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset is 6:48 PM. The tides are a high of 2.2 ft at 6:17 AM and a low of 0.3 ft at 10:16 PM. The high at 6:17 AM is 68 minutes before sunrise. The forecast is Sunny, 72°F, wind 5 mph NE.
Monday
The moon is a first quarter, about 60% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 7:26 AM and sunset is 6:47 PM. The tides are a high of 2.1 ft at 6:48 AM and a low of 0.4 ft at 11:22 PM. The high at 6:48 AM is 38 minutes before sunrise. The forecast is Mostly Sunny, 77°F, wind 5 mph NE.
Tuesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 70% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 7:26 AM and sunset is 6:46 PM. The tides are a high of 2.0 ft at 7:04 AM. The high at 7:04 AM is 22 minutes before sunrise. The forecast is Mostly Sunny, 83°F, wind 5 mph E.
Friday, 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
- 6:04 AM
- Nautical twilight begins
- 6:31 AM
- Dawn
- 6:59 AM
- Blue hour, morning
- 6:59 AM to 7:08 AM
- Golden hour, morning
- 7:08 AM to 7:55 AM
- Sunrise
- 7:23 AM
- Solar noon
- 1:07 PM
- Golden hour, evening
- 6:18 PM to 7:05 PM
- Sunset
- 6:50 PM
- Blue hour, evening
- 7:05 PM to 7:14 PM
- Dusk
- 7:14 PM
- Nautical twilight ends
- 7:42 PM
- Last light
- 8:10 PM
- Day length
- 11 hours 27 minutes
- Moon
- First Quarter, about 32% lit
- Moonrise
- 1:02 PM
- Moonset
- 11:03 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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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.
No coastal flood gauge is published within 15 miles of this station.