Picnic Harbor, Rocky Bay tide predictions
59.2550, -151.4200 · NOAA station 9455399
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Nearest buoy: Lower Cook Inlet (204) · 28 mi NW — live wind & wave reports
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48-hour outlook
Drag across the curve to inspect any time. Weather icons show the forecast at each high tide.
Drawn from the high/low predictions — NOAA publishes high/low only for this station.
7-day tides
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H = high tide · L = low tide
About this station
NOAA builds the predictions for Picnic Harbor, Rocky Bay from the Seward, Resurrection Bay station: high tides about 1.23× the height, 26 min later; low tides about the same height, 21 min later.
Upper Cook Inlet has some of the largest tides on Earth — ranges past 30 ft, powerful rips, and bore tides on Turnagain Arm. Winter ice can push actual water levels well off the predictions.
2027 tide extremes
Highest predicted high tide: 16.3 ft — Fri Jan 22 · 1:05 PM
Lowest predicted low tide: -3.3 ft — Mon Jul 5 · 9:26 AM
Biggest single-day swing: 19.1 ft on Fri Jan 22
Best daytime minus tides of 2027
| Date | Low tide | Height |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Jul 5 | 9:26 AM | -3.3 ft |
| Sun Jun 6 | 9:39 AM | -3.2 ft |
| Sun Jul 4 | 8:42 AM | -3.2 ft |
| Tue Jul 6 | 10:10 AM | -3.1 ft |
| Sat Jun 5 | 8:54 AM | -3.0 ft |
| Mon Jun 7 | 10:27 AM | -3.0 ft |
| Tue Aug 3 | 9:05 AM | -2.9 ft |
| Mon Aug 2 | 8:24 AM | -2.8 ft |
| Sat May 8 | 9:49 AM | -2.6 ft |
| Sat Jul 3 | 7:56 AM | -2.6 ft |
190 minus tides (below 0 ft) are predicted here in 2027. The table shows up to the 10 lowest that fall between 7 AM and 7 PM — the ones worth planning a clam dig or tidepool walk around.
Nearest tide stations
- Port Chatham · 11.3 mi W
- Tutka Bay,Kachemak Bay · 12.4 mi N
- Takoma Cove, Port Dick · 15.5 mi E
- Kasitsna Bay, Kachemak Bay · 15.6 mi N
- Port Graham · 15.8 mi NW