Find the next low tide near you
Wondering when the next low tide — or better, the next minus tide — is at your beach? Pick the nearest of 12 NOAA stations below and get the next 30 days of walkable windows, ranked. A window is any stretch when the predicted tide sits below +1.0 ft MLLW; the score folds in depth, daylight overlap, weekends, and season.
How low does the tide need to be?
A tide chart tells you when low tide is; it doesn't tell you whether that low is any good. Most beaches only open up meaningfully below about 0 ft MLLW, and the famous stuff tends to need a minus tide. If the scores above look stingy, that's the honest answer for the next month — see how low the tide needs to be for tide pools for what unlocks at each depth, or how to read a tide table for the basics. The scoring math is on the methodology page.
Where this works
The finder covers 12 NOAA tide stations across Washington, Oregon, California, and Maine. Each state hub lists its stations with monthly low tide calendars. Tides shift by only minutes over tens of miles of open coast, so the nearest station is usually a fine stand-in — inside bays and sounds, pick the station on your side of the water.
Planning around fixed dates instead?
If your question is “I'm there July 14–20, when do I go?”, the Trip Picker answers it directly. For the long view — every window for the rest of the year in one graphic — try the Year at a Glance heatmap.