California

The tide at Bodega Bay

Northern California’s big mixed tides, cold water, and a harbour mouth that runs hard enough to be worth timing.

A Wavepane display showing the tide at Bodega Bay, California: the current water level as a wave, the next tide time, and today's weather.

A Wavepane at Bodega Bay, California. See it live →

What the water does here

Bodega Bay runs two highs and two lows a day, and rarely the same size twice. Between low and high the water moves about 3.5 feet, averaged across a week of predictions.

A Wavepane on the wall shows that as a picture rather than a table: the water sits where the water sits, and the wave on top grows or flattens with the swell outside. It wakes every half hour, redraws, and goes back to sleep. Nothing to open, nothing to check.

See Bodega Bay live

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