Know the Tide

Know the tide.

North Carolina tide charts

65 NOAA tide stations in North Carolina.

Stations65
Reference stations37
Subordinate stations28
Biggest range5.5 ft

Popular shores in North Carolina

All North Carolina stations

About North Carolina tides

Georgia and the Carolinas run the biggest ranges on the Southeast coast — 7 to 10 ft through marsh creeks and barrier-island inlets that rearrange themselves with every storm.

North Carolina has 65 NOAA tide stations — 37 reference stations whose predictions come from harmonic analysis of observations there, and 28 subordinate stations calculated from them. The biggest tidal range in the state is at Sunset Beach Pier — 5.5 ft between mean higher high water and mean lower low water.