Oregon Coast King Tides 2026 & 2027: Official Dates, Highs and Low-Tide Windows

Oregon's official 2026–27 king-tide photo series runs November 23–27 and December 22–26, 2026, then January 20–24, 2027. Among Tidewindow's four Oregon NOAA stations, the largest predicted October–March high is 10.58 ft MLLW at Newport (9435380), December 24 at 11:39 AM. High-water photo dates and low-tide daylight windows answer different questions: most of the listed low tides occur after sunset.

Official Oregon king tide dates for 2026–27

The Oregon King Tides Project lists these dates for its current photo series, checked September 13, 2026:

The project is coordinated by the Oregon Coastal Management Program and Oregon Shores. Its dates provide a shared period for documenting high-water conditions; the exact predicted high differs by station and day. Use the project website for participation details. The tables below compare NOAA predictions, not photo locations or a flooding forecast.

The highest predicted tides at four Oregon stations

At all four covered Oregon stations, the highest predicted tide of October 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027 falls on December 24, 2026. The clock is not the same along the coast: Port Orford's peak is at 10:54 AM, while Garibaldi's is at 12:11 PM.

Checked against the September 13, 2026 fact sheets computed from NOAA predictions. Heights are feet above each station's local Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW), not flood depths or a common land elevation. All times on this page are local Pacific time. Predictions are not observations and do not establish conditions or access at a particular beach.

What makes a tide “king”?

NOAA describes king tide as an informal term for an exceptionally high tide. Spring tides occur around new and full moons, when solar and lunar effects combine to produce a larger tidal range. A perigean spring tide adds the moon's closer approach to Earth, but not every unusually high tide identifies a perigean event. Local tidal patterns and seasonal conditions also matter.

The national 2026–27 king-tide guide compares all twelve stations Tidewindow covers. Neither a predicted high nor the size of the high-to-low swing guarantees flooding, exposed terrain or access.

The lowest qualifying low-tide windows, station by station

These are each station's five lowest lows whose below-+1.0-ft MLLW window overlaps daylight by at least 30 minutes, selected from October 2026 through March 2027. This is not a list of every low tide or a ranking by daylight duration. A qualifying window can extend well beyond sunset, and the low itself need not be in daylight.

“Window below +1 ft” describes the predicted water level at the NOAA station. It does not supply a route opening, arrival deadline, walking time or turnaround time.

Port Orford (station 9431647)

Charleston / Coos Bay (station 9432780)

Newport / South Beach (station 9435380)

Garibaldi / Tillamook Bay (station 9437540)

All twenty rows checked against the September 13, 2026 fact sheets. Heights are rounded to two decimals; times are Pacific. Score is Tidewindow's 0–100 rating of depth, daylight and timing, not an access or safety rating. The methodology page explains the calculation and its limits.

Daylight in the window is not daylight at the low

Nineteen of these twenty lows occur after sunset. The exception is Port Orford on January 21, 2027: its 5:12 PM low precedes the computed 5:16 PM sunset. Even there, the below-+1-ft window continues until 7:45 PM, so the whole window is not in daylight.

Port Orford's December 24 example shows the distinction especially clearly. Its -2.21-ft low occurs at 6:14 PM, after the computed 4:48 PM sunset. The window begins at 3:40 PM and contains 69 daylight minutes earlier in the afternoon. January 21 has 152 daylight minutes and the highest score among the twenty rows shown: 76, the selection's only Great-band result. That comparison says nothing about a particular beach being open or passable.

For more Oregon context, see the Oregon tide-pools guide, Port Orford guide and agate-hunting guide. Their local context is separate from the station-level numbers above.

Compare your dates and keep qualifying low-tide windows

For the next 30 days, the Tide Window Finder compares computed low-tide windows and can select the nearest covered station from a ZIP code. For a later trip, the Trip Picker ranks windows within your chosen station and date range. These tools are for low-water comparisons, not the official high-water photography schedule.

The station picker below offers calendar feeds for Good-or-better daylight low-tide windows. It will not include every row in this guide, the high-tide peaks or the project's photo-series dates. See how the calendar feeds work for the subscription steps.