California

The tide at San Francisco

Everything in the bay — the current under the bridge, the fog, the ferries — is on the tide’s timetable.

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

A Wavepane at San Francisco, California. See it live →

What the water does here

San Francisco runs two highs and two lows a day, and rarely the same size twice. Between low and high the water moves about 4.6 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 San Francisco live

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