Tides / Virginia / Stafford County / Aquia Creek
Aquia Creek
Tide station
NOAA station Aquia Creek, Va. in Stafford County, Virginia. 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 Aquia Harbour and Stafford Courthouse. NOAA adjusts this prediction from WASHINGTON.
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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 Aquia Creek. 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 28% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 7:19 AM and sunset is 6:30 PM. The tides are a low of 0.5 ft at 4:59 AM, a high of 1.3 ft at 11:24 AM, a low of 0.5 ft at 4:33 PM, and a high of 1.5 ft at 11:25 PM. The low at 4:33 PM is 117 minutes before sunset.
Saturday
The moon is a waxing crescent, about 38% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 7:20 AM and sunset is 6:29 PM. The tides are a low of 0.5 ft at 5:41 AM, a high of 1.2 ft at 12:13 PM, and a low of 0.5 ft at 5:19 PM. The low at 5:41 AM is 99 minutes before sunrise. The low at 5:19 PM is 70 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Chance Rain Showers then Partly Sunny, 55°F, wind 13 to 17 mph N.
Sunday
The moon is a first quarter, about 49% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset is 6:28 PM. The tides are a high of 1.4 ft at 12:14 AM, a low of 0.6 ft at 6:26 AM, a high of 1.2 ft at 1:05 PM, and a low of 0.6 ft at 6:13 PM. The low at 6:26 AM is 55 minutes before sunrise. The low at 6:13 PM is 15 minutes before sunset. The forecast is Sunny, 57°F, wind 9 mph N.
Monday
The moon is a first quarter, about 60% lit, so the highs run smaller. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset is 6:26 PM. The tides are a high of 1.4 ft at 1:09 AM, a low of 0.6 ft at 7:16 AM, a high of 1.2 ft at 2:03 PM, and a low of 0.6 ft at 7:16 PM. The low at 7:16 AM is 6 minutes before sunrise. The low at 7:16 PM is 50 minutes after sunset. The forecast is Chance Rain Showers, 58°F, wind 13 mph N.
Tuesday
The moon is a waxing gibbous, about 70% lit. The larger tides fall nearer the new moon and the full moon. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset is 6:25 PM. The tides are a high of 1.4 ft at 2:14 AM, a low of 0.5 ft at 8:08 AM, a high of 1.3 ft at 3:00 PM, and a low of 0.5 ft at 8:21 PM. The low at 8:08 AM is 45 minutes after sunrise. The low at 8:21 PM is 116 minutes after sunset. The forecast is Slight Chance Rain Showers, 63°F, wind 14 mph N.
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
- 5:51 AM
- Nautical twilight begins
- 6:22 AM
- Dawn
- 6:53 AM
- Blue hour, morning
- 6:53 AM to 7:03 AM
- Golden hour, morning
- 7:03 AM to 7:55 AM
- Sunrise
- 7:19 AM
- Solar noon
- 12:55 PM
- Golden hour, evening
- 5:54 PM to 6:46 PM
- Sunset
- 6:30 PM
- Blue hour, evening
- 6:46 PM to 6:57 PM
- Dusk
- 6:57 PM
- Nautical twilight ends
- 7:27 PM
- Last light
- 7:58 PM
- Day length
- 11 hours 10 minutes
- Moon
- First Quarter, about 32% lit
- Moonrise
- 1:17 PM
- Moonset
- 10:20 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
- Canoe Launch1.6 mi
- Canoe Launch2.2 mi
Beaches
- Clifton Beach4.8 mi
Parks
- Aquia Landing Beach Park2.9 mi
- Stafford Square3.0 mi
- Patawomack Band Memorial Park3.1 mi
- Stafford Civil War Park3.3 mi
- Leeland Station Community Park6.9 mi
- Maryland Point7.4 mi
Nature reserves
- Widewater State Park1.2 mi
- Mallows Bay – Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary3.8 mi
- Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve4.0 mi
- Nanjemoy Natural Resources Management Area Purse Area5.6 mi
- Douglas Point Special Recreation Management Area5.6 mi
- Nanjemoy Natural Resources Management Area Douglas Point Area6.0 mi
Nearby tide stations
- Clifton Beach4.7 mi · Stafford County
- Liverpool Point5.4 mi · Stafford County
- Quantico7.9 mi · Stafford County
- Riverside11 mi · King George County
- Massaponax12 mi · Stafford County
- Hopyard Landing14 mi · King George 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.
No coastal flood gauge is published within 15 miles of this station.