Know the Tide

Know the tide.

Alaska

CAPE ESPENBERG

KOTZEBUE SOUND · Alaska · NOAA station 9490096 · Tide predictions

· Alaska Time · Feet / MLLW (mean lower low water)

66.5857, -164.2508

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48-hour outlook

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The next seven days

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H = high tide · L = low tide · highs & lows in local time

On the water nearby

Last light, longer plans
Daylight calendar for Kotzebue → Alaska Daylight · Northern lights forecast for Kotzebue → Alaska Aurora Forecast

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Plan ahead

2027 tide extremes for this station

Highest predicted high tide: 1.2 ft — Mon Jan 25 · 3:50 PM

Lowest predicted low tide: -0.3 ft — Mon Jan 25 · 10:33 PM

Biggest single-day swing: 1.4 ft on Mon Jan 25

Best daytime minus tides of 2027
DateLow tideHeight
Thu Aug 511:07 AM-0.3 ft
Fri Aug 611:55 AM-0.3 ft
Thu Jul 812:18 PM-0.2 ft
Fri Sep 310:43 AM-0.2 ft
Fri Jul 91:11 PM-0.2 ft
Wed Jul 711:28 AM-0.2 ft
Wed Aug 410:21 AM-0.2 ft
Thu Sep 29:58 AM-0.2 ft
Sat Aug 712:45 PM-0.2 ft
Sat Sep 411:28 AM-0.2 ft

160 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.

About this station

CAPE ESPENBERG, KOTZEBUE SOUND is one of NOAA's reference tide stations — its predictions are computed directly from harmonic analysis of water levels observed here, and other nearby stations are calculated from it.

Alaska holds the country's most extreme tides: Inside Passage channels, Cook Inlet swings past 30 ft, and Arctic stations where the tide is measured in inches and wind setup runs the show.

Diurnal range1.0 ft
Mean range0.7 ft
RegionAlaska
NOAA chart16005
Station since2015