When high and low water are at Dingle — worked out from the harbour's own tide gauge — and how far the weather is currently pushing the sea above or below the table.
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Nobody publishes a tide table for Dingle that we are allowed to reuse — but the Marine Institute does publish the harbour's own tide gauge, and a tide can be worked out from the water itself. So these times are calculated from Dingle Harbour's own record, and then checked against the gauge every time this page loads.
That check is the useful part. A tide table only knows the moon and the sun. What is actually in the harbour is the tide plus whatever the weather is doing — and on this coast that is routinely a few tens of centimetres, and much more in a storm. This page shows both.
Right now
The water at the gauge is 3.03 m.
Going out — low water at 05:18.
measured .
The sea is close to the tide table today.
Over the last day the water has averaged −15 cm away from the prediction — ordinary for this coast.
How far the measured water has been above or below the predicted tide, hour by hour. This is the weather’s share, with the tide taken out.
| Time | Above / below the tide |
|---|---|
| 00:26 | −15 cm |
| 02:26 | −16 cm |
| 04:26 | −15 cm |
| 06:26 | −16 cm |
| 08:26 | −16 cm |
| 10:26 | −15 cm |
| 12:26 | −14 cm |
| 14:26 | −12 cm |
| 16:26 | −12 cm |
| 18:26 | −16 cm |
| 20:26 | −16 cm |
| 22:26 | −14 cm |
Worked out from the moon and the sun for this harbour.
| Time | Tide | Height | If today’s weather holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 05:18 | Low water | 1.27 m | 1.13 m |
| Fri 11:48 | High water | 3.13 m | 2.98 m |
| Fri 18:03 | Low water | 1.40 m | 1.26 m |
| Sat 00:26 | High water | 3.10 m | 2.96 m |
The last column adds today’s measured difference (−15 cm) to the tide. It is not a forecast: a surge fades, and a new one can arrive. The tide figure is the reliable one.
The difference between high and low water changes over about a fortnight — springs around the new and full moon, neaps in between. The same weather surge matters far more on a big tide than a small one.
The gap between high and low water runs on a fortnightly cycle — big “spring” tides around the new and full moon, small “neap” tides in between. At Dingle the gap at springs is roughly twice what it is at neaps, and the biggest springs of the year are bigger again. Half a metre of weather piled on top of a neap high water is barely noticed; the same half-metre on top of a spring high water is what puts water where it does not usually go. The three figures just above tell you which sort of week you are in.
A deep Atlantic low does two things at once: the low pressure itself lets the sea stand higher, and a southwesterly gale pushes water onto this coast. Both add to the tide rather than replacing it, which is why the difference measured above can be carried forward to the next high water. Storm Éowyn on 24 January 2025 is the recent measure of what the peninsula gets — roofs off in the town, about 25,000 Kerry homes without power, roads blocked.
Source: RTÉ News, checked 6 August 2026 (today).
This page is the height of the water, not what the sea is like. For chop, wind and water temperature at the spots people around Dingle actually swim — the harbour mouth, Ventry, Béal Bán and Wine Strand — the town's swim and sea check is the page for that.
Nobody publishes an openly reusable tide table for this harbour, but the Marine Institute does publish the harbour’s own tide gauge. The tide is the sum of a fixed set of rhythms whose speeds come from the orbits of the moon and the sun — only their size and timing here are local. So we measured those from the Dingle Harbour gauge’s own record between 2025-06-15 and 2026-06-20, and the times above are worked out from them.
Then we checked it against 45 days of water the calculation had never seen: it came out 8 cm away on average. That gap is mostly weather, not arithmetic — which is exactly what the section above measures for today.
Turn by turn, it found all 174 of the 174 high and low waters the gauge actually recorded, on average within 12 min of the right time and 6 cm out in height. It runs neither consistently early nor consistently late.
Water level data: Marine Institute, Irish National Tide Gauge Network (CC BY 4.0).
What this page is not
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