Tauranga Tide ChartTauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty

High tide in Tauranga today is at 9:55 am (1.9 m) and 10:12 pm (1.9 m).

Low tide in Tauranga today is at 3:37 am (0.3 m) and 3:56 pm (0.4 m).

Today's range in Tauranga — the difference between the day's highest high and lowest low — is 1.6 m. The average over the next two weeks is 1.6 m, so today is above-average. Range varies through the month on the spring–neap cycle.

Neither, cleanly — Tauranga is mid-cycle this week, with predicted ranges easing toward neap tides. Spring tides bring the largest ranges and the strongest currents, neap tides the smallest, and the fortnightly swing between them runs continuously rather than in steps.

Tauranga has a semi-diurnal tide: two high tides and two low tides every day, roughly equal in height, about six hours apart.

Sunrise in Tauranga today is at 6:37 am and sunset is at 5:53 pm. The moon is waning gibbous, 80% illuminated.

All heights on this page are in metres above CD (chart datum), the chart datum LINZ references New Zealand tide predictions to. A predicted height of 0.0 m means water at the datum, not a dry bottom — and negative predictions do occur on the biggest spring lows.

They are astronomical predictions from harmonic constituents published by LINZ for the Tauranga station, the same constituents LINZ computes its own published tide tables from. They account for the motion of the sun and moon but not for weather. Sustained wind, barometric pressure and river flow can all push real water levels above or below the prediction, sometimes by a third of a metre or more in a strong blow.

About 45 minutes. The tide enters through the single entrance at Mount Maunganui and takes time to propagate up the western arm, so Ōmokoroa and the upper harbour consistently turn later than the port does — and with slightly more range, typically around 1.5 metres against the port's 1.5 on the same day but reaching a little higher on springs.

Because a small range over a very large area still moves an enormous volume of water, and nearly all of it goes through one narrow gap. Tauranga Harbour sits behind Matakana Island and fills and empties through the cut between the island and Mount Maunganui, so the stream through that entrance is much stronger than the harbour's 1.0 to 2.0 metre range would suggest. Plan around the state of the tide there, not the height.

Between roughly 1.0 and 2.0 metres depending on where you are in the spring–neap cycle, with a typical day around 1.5 metres. High water runs 1.6 to 2.1 metres above chart datum and low water between 0.1 and 0.7 metres. That is a smaller swing than Auckland's, and considerably larger than Wellington's.

They are computed from the harmonic constituents that Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand publishes for the Tauranga tide station — the same constituent set LINZ uses for its own published tide tables. We run our own prediction from them rather than reproducing LINZ's tables, and we check the result against those tables before publishing.

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