How's the tide at Ocean City today?

Ocean City — today and tomorrow

Ocean City tide chart — next seven days

Ocean City tides — month by month

Every high and low water for September 2026 and October 2026.

Wind and weather at Ocean City

Seven days from the National Weather Service forecast for this stretch of coast. Each row is the range across the whole day, not a reading for one moment.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service, forecast office AKQ. Public domain. Wind in knots, from the direction given. The forecast grid for this place carries no wave heights, so none are shown.

Boating, beach and fishing at Ocean City

The same forecast as above, read for three things people do here. Each verdict names what decided it.

Boating turns to Poor at the National Weather Service small craft threshold — sustained wind of 22 kn, gusts of 26 kn, or seas of 5 ft — and to Fair at 15 kn or 3 ft. Beach weighs air temperature, chance of rain and wind.Fishing asks whether the day is fishable at all and whether a solunar major window falls in daylight; it is not a prediction of what will bite. None of this replaces the marine forecast before you go out.

Sun and moon

Solunar windows for Ocean City

The moon pulls hardest when it is directly overhead or on the far side of the earth — the two major windows of about two hours. The shorter minor windows sit around moonrise and moonset. Anglers use them to pick a time on the water; they are computed from the moon's position, not measured.

Times are local to Ocean City (America/New_York).

Questions about Ocean City tides

Answered from the same NOAA predictions as the table above; the solunar windows come from this page's own moon calculation. Where this page has no basis for an answer, there is no entry.

What time is high tide in Ocean City today?

High water at 9:35 am (4.2 ft) and 9:55 pm (3.7 ft), local time in Ocean City. Heights are feet above MLLW. Because the tide runs on the moon rather than the clock, each turn falls roughly 50 minutes later tomorrow — the seven-day table above carries the shift.

What time is low tide in Ocean City today?

Low water at 3:24 am (-0.1 ft) and 3:55 pm (0.0 ft), local time in Ocean City. A height below zero is a minus tide: the water falls further than MLLW, the level the heights are counted from.

How many tides does Ocean City get in a day?

Two high waters and two low waters on most days, a little over six hours apart. Over the seven days on this page that comes to 13 high waters and 14 low waters. Where a date shows only three turns, the fourth has slipped past midnight and is listed under the following day.

What is the tidal range at Ocean City?

About 4.3 ft between today's lowest and highest water. Across the next seven days the water moves between -0.1 and 4.2 ft — a span of about 4.3 ft. The range is widest around new and full moon and narrowest at the quarters, so it changes from week to week.

Which tide station do these Ocean City tide times come from?

NOAA station 8570280, OCEAN CITY (FISHING PIER) — a reference station, about 7.5 km from the centre of Ocean City. Ocean City Fishing Pier on the open Atlantic. Ocean City in New Jersey is a different place and has its own page. A reference station has its own long-running record, which is the strongest basis NOAA publishes. The predictions here are NOAA's, unchanged.

NOAA station 8570280 tide predictions

What time zone are the Ocean City tide times in?

Every time on this page is clock time in Ocean City — the America/New_York zone, daylight saving already applied. Nothing has to be converted, and no time is shown in UTC except the retrieval stamp at the foot of the page.

When are the solunar windows at Ocean City today?

The major windows run 1:27 am to 3:27 am and 1:50 pm to 3:50 pm, with shorter minor windows around moonrise and moonset. They are computed from the moon's position over Ocean City, not measured — anglers use them to pick a time on the water. The moon is 7% lit and waxing.

All windows for today and tomorrow

How far ahead does this Ocean City tide chart go?

Seven days in the table, and every high and low water for September 2026 and October 2026 in the calendar below it. The page is rebuilt every morning, so the first day is always today.

Ocean City tide calendar

Nearby tide charts

• Fenwick Island, DE 14 km
• Bethany Beach, DE 32 km
• Indian River Inlet, DE 32 km
• Rehoboth Beach, DE 44 km
• Lewes, DE 51 km
• Chincoteague, VA 51 km

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