Newport Beach tides today
Balboa Pier stands on the ocean side of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, a subordinate tide station that NOAA derives from the Los Angeles Outer Harbor gauge.
Shaded: night. Green bands: solunar periods (thick = major, thin = minor). Heights in feet above Mean Lower Low Water, the zero of NOAA charts.
Newport Beach, CA · Tuesday, October 13
Tide falling, 2.3 ft now
Low 5:54 PM
0.2 ft · in 3 h 13 min
| Low | 4:20 AM | 2.1 ft |
| High | 10:29 AM | 5.6 ft |
| Low | 5:54 PM | 0.2 ft |
Tide coefficient 103 (average), range 5.4 ft
Sunrise 6:55 AM · sunset 6:20 PM
Waxing crescent, 10% lit · fishing day ★★☆☆
Solunar: major 1:37 AM–3:37 AM, minor 9:32 AM–10:32 AM, major 2:02 PM–4:02 PM, minor 7:28 PM–8:28 PM
Newport Beach tide table, next 7 days
| Day | High tides | Low tides | Coef. | Sun | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:29 AM 5.6 ft | 4:20 AM 2.1 ft · 5:54 PM 0.2 ft | 103 | 6:55 AM–6:20 PM | Waxing crescent ★★☆☆ | |
| 12:11 AM 3.4 ft · 10:56 AM 5.4 ft | 4:37 AM 2.5 ft · 6:42 PM 0.5 ft | 92 | 6:56 AM–6:19 PM | Waxing crescent ★★☆☆ | |
| 1:24 AM 3.1 ft · 11:26 AM 5.0 ft | 4:46 AM 2.8 ft · 7:45 PM 0.8 ft | 80 | 6:57 AM–6:18 PM | Waxing crescent ★★☆☆ | |
| 12:05 PM 4.7 ft | 9:08 PM 1.0 ft | 70 | 6:57 AM–6:16 PM | First quarter ★★☆☆ | |
| 1:14 PM 4.3 ft | 10:33 PM 1.0 ft | 63 | 6:58 AM–6:15 PM | First quarter ★★☆☆ | |
| 7:09 AM 3.7 ft · 3:15 PM 4.1 ft | 10:10 AM 3.6 ft · 11:33 PM 0.8 ft | 63 | 6:59 AM–6:14 PM | First quarter ★★☆☆ | |
| 6:56 AM 3.9 ft · 4:48 PM 4.2 ft | 11:45 AM 3.1 ft | 20 | 7:00 AM–6:13 PM | First quarter ★★☆☆ |
Plan around the tide at Newport Beach
- Tue Oct 13, 4:02 PM to 6:20 PM2 h 18 min · lowest 0.2 ft at 5:56 PM
- Wed Oct 14, 5:04 PM to 6:19 PM1 h 15 min · lowest 0.6 ft at 6:14 PM
A falling tide uncovers sand bars and tide pools first; plan to be back before the water rises past the level you chose. Not for navigation.
Station Balboa Pier, Newport Beach (NOAA 9410583). Predicted astronomical tide: wind, river flow and storms can move the real water by a foot or more. 5.3 ft is the average daily range here.
Published by Radif Partners · How the tides are computed · predictions downloaded October 13, 2026
Tide times for Newport Beach come from the National Ocean Service prediction for station 9410583, Balboa Pier, Newport Beach, a subordinate station whose highs and lows NOAA corrects from LOS ANGELES (Outer Harbor). The tide here is mixed: two highs and two lows most days, but of unequal size, the two highs of a day differing by 1.6 ft on average, for an average daily range of 5.3 ft between the higher high and the lower low. Around the new and full moon the range grows to about 7.2 ft on one day in ten, and at the quarter moons it shrinks to 3.4 ft. Heights are in feet above Mean Lower Low Water, the zero of nautical charts, so a negative number is water below that zero: 226 of the 457 days from October 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027 have one, down to -1.9 ft on January 21, 2027. The highest predicted tide of that period is 7.0 ft on December 24, 2026. Clock times are Pacific Time, daylight saving time included.
From the Los Angeles breakwater to the Balboa surf
There is no full-time gauge on Balboa Pier. NOAA predicts its tide from Los Angeles Outer Harbor, about 25 miles up the coast, with high water 9 minutes earlier, low water at the same time and heights at 96 percent. Those small corrections say something about this coast: the long, straight beaches of Orange County see the tide nearly all at once. The result here is an average daily range of 5.3 ft, opening to 7.2 ft around the new and full moon. NOAA also keeps a station at the Newport Bay entrance off Corona del Mar, a mile east of the pier, for the water that runs between the jetties.
Peninsula, harbor and the back bay
The Balboa Peninsula is a strip of sand between the open Pacific and Newport Harbor. Walk a few blocks from the pier across the peninsula and you leave the surf for calm moorings, but the tide inside the harbor does not drift far from the ocean schedule because the entrance is short. The picture changes in places where water has to squeeze through a narrow mouth. At the Santa Ana River entrance, four miles northwest, NOAA predicts high water 23 minutes after Los Angeles Outer Harbor and low water 107 minutes after, with highs at 54 percent and lows at 20 percent. Upper Newport Bay, with its marsh and mudflats, behaves more like that than like the pier.
Low water along the jetty and the rocky points
East of the harbor mouth, the shore of Corona del Mar turns to rocky points and coves. Those benches are worth visiting near a low that dips below 0 ft, which happens on 226 days of the prediction period. See Long Beach for the port side of the same tide.
Highest and lowest tides at Newport Beach, 2026 to 2027
The six highest highs and six lowest lows predicted for Balboa Pier, Newport Beach between October 1, 2026 and December 31, 2027, one per day. The high-water dates are the king tides of this station; the low-water dates are the best days to see the flats, bars and tide pools.
| Highest highs | Time | Height |
|---|---|---|
| December 24, 2026 | 8:18 AM | 7.0 ft |
| August 1, 2027 | 8:52 PM | 6.9 ft |
| December 23, 2026 | 7:31 AM | 6.9 ft |
| November 25, 2026 | 8:25 AM | 6.9 ft |
| July 3, 2027 | 8:59 PM | 6.9 ft |
| July 4, 2027 | 9:48 PM | 6.9 ft |
| Lowest lows | Time | Height |
|---|---|---|
| January 21, 2027 | 2:53 PM | -1.9 ft |
| January 22, 2027 | 3:32 PM | -1.8 ft |
| December 24, 2026 | 3:52 PM | -1.8 ft |
| December 23, 2026 | 3:07 PM | -1.7 ft |
| July 4, 2027 | 4:31 AM | -1.7 ft |
| December 25, 2026 | 4:38 PM | -1.6 ft |
A subordinate station
NOAA predicts Balboa Pier, Newport Beach from the reference station LOS ANGELES (Outer Harbor) (9410660): high water 9 minutes earlier, low water 0 minutes later, heights multiplied by 0.96 at high water and 0.96 at low water. Between those highs and lows the curve on this page follows the shape of the reference station's hourly curve.
Other stations nearby
- Long Beach tides: Long Beach, Terminal Island, average range 5.6 ft, highest predicted tide 7.4 ft on December 24, 2026
- Santa Monica tides: Santa Monica, Municipal Pier, average range 5.4 ft, highest predicted tide 7.3 ft on August 1, 2027
- La Jolla tides: La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf), average range 5.3 ft, highest predicted tide 7.2 ft on August 1, 2027
- San Diego tides: SAN DIEGO (Broadway), average range 5.6 ft, highest predicted tide 7.6 ft on December 24, 2026
- Santa Barbara tides: Santa Barbara, average range 5.4 ft, highest predicted tide 7.2 ft on December 24, 2026
- Monterey tides: MONTEREY, MONTEREY BAY, average range 5.3 ft, highest predicted tide 7.0 ft on December 24, 2026