VA Tides and Virginia Tides

Name: Tide Times Compare US Tide Prediction Index: Virginia
Creator: Tide Times Compare
Published: 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z
License: https://tidetimescompare.com/terms

Every Virginia coastal place this index covers, with its mean tidal range and the NOAA tide station the predictions come from.

mean tidal range (ft): 2.4
coastal places: 5
NOAA tide stations: 5

By place

mean range (ft), largest first

By place


Virginia Beach	3.27	3.48	0.21	6.6
James River	2.76	3.1	0.34	0
Chesapeake Bay	2.45	2.62	0.17	0
Hampton	2.39	2.54	0.15	5.2
Chincoteague	0.89	0.98	0.09	0.3

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The mean tidal range in Virginia was 2 in 180-day prediction window, across 7,055 predicted high and low waters recorded in the Tide Times Compare US Tide Prediction Index (NOAA CO-OPS data).

Cite as: "Tide Times Compare US Tide Prediction Index: Virginia", updated 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z, https://tidetimescompare.com/tides/virginia/.

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Mean tidal range · Virginia · 180-day prediction window

predicted high and low waters	7,055

Source: Tide Times Compare US Tide Prediction Index: Virginia

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Source: Tide predictions and station data from NOAA CO-OPS (tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov), read 2026-09-10; US Government work, public domain (17 USC 105). Heights are feet above MLLW (mean lower low water); times are the station's own local clock.

api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov NOAA CO-OPS tide prediction station list (US Government work, public domain (17 USC 105))
api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov NOAA CO-OPS predicted high and low water (product=predictions, interval=hilo, datum=MLLW) (US Government work, public domain (17 USC 105))

Methodology: One row per US place a measured tide query names, joined to the nearest NOAA CO-OPS tide-prediction station within 45km and carrying that station's distance, because the reader is owed the fact that the table is the station's and not the beach's. Heights are feet above MLLW; a subordinate station publishes no datums, so its means are computed from its own predictions. Predictions are PREDICTIONS: weather, atmospheric pressure and river flow move real water levels away from them, and none of it is for navigation.

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