How's the tide at Bald Head Island today?

Bald Head Island — today and tomorrow

Bald Head Island tide chart — next seven days

Bald Head Island tides — month by month

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

Wind and weather at Bald Head Island

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 ILM. Public domain. Wind in knots, from the direction given. Wave heights are the forecast for the water off this coast, not the surf on the beach.

Boating, beach and fishing at Bald Head Island

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 Bald Head Island

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 Bald Head Island (America/New_York).

Questions about Bald Head Island 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 Bald Head Island today?

High water at 9:50 am (5.4 ft) and 10:02 pm (5.0 ft), local time in Bald Head Island. 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 Bald Head Island today?

Low water at 3:20 am (0.0 ft) and 3:46 pm (0.3 ft), local time in Bald Head Island. 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 Bald Head Island 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 Bald Head Island?

About 5.4 ft between today's lowest and highest water. Across the next seven days the water moves between 0.0 and 5.4 ft — a span of about 5.4 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 Bald Head Island tide times come from?

NOAA station 8658901 — a subordinate station. Bald Head Island station at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, 2.5 km from the village center. NOAA public station page confirmed 2026-08-18. A subordinate station carries no gauge of its own: NOAA publishes its times as an offset from a nearby reference station, which is how the agency itself issues them. The predictions here are NOAA's, unchanged.

NOAA station 8658901 tide predictions

What time zone are the Bald Head Island tide times in?

Every time on this page is clock time in Bald Head Island — 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 Bald Head Island today?

The major windows run 1:39 am to 3:39 am and 2:02 pm to 4:02 pm, with shorter minor windows around moonrise and moonset. They are computed from the moon's position over Bald Head Island, 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 Bald Head Island 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.

Bald Head Island tide calendar

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