Jamaica Beach, West Bay

Near Galveston, TX · Good conditions · next low tide 10:07 PM

Today: high 7:43 AM (1.3 ft), low 10:07 PM (0.3 ft). Predicted at the gauge, hour by hour, on the station’s own clock. The band is daylight; the tick is now.

The week: seven days of the tide on one height scale, daylight shaded, highs as white dots and lows as grey. Plan Saturday from here.

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Rip Current Statement across Texas. These are issued by marine zone, so check weather.gov/marine for the zone you are actually fishing.

The gauge and the buoy the readings come from, 9 miles apart. The arrow is the wind at the buoy.

On the water

Good conditions

Wind: 21 mph, gusts 25
Water: 79°F
Air: 74°F
Pressure: 1015 mb, rising 1.5 mb in 3h

Wind 21 mph - workable but breezy

Buoy GRRT2, 9 miles from the gauge. It reports no wave height, so seas are not in the rating. Whether it is workable out there, not whether anything will bite. Nobody can forecast that.

Reading this honestly

The buoy is 9 miles from this gauge, which is stated for a reason: sea state at a buoy offshore can be nothing like conditions in a sheltered channel, and a water temperature reading a river mouth away may be several degrees out.

The rating is about wind, seas and warnings - whether a small boat can work comfortably and safely. It is not a bite forecast, and the tide times above are not one either. Tide stage matters to a great many species and every angler has a theory about which stage; we are not going to convert those theories into a number and present it as data.

Other Texas gauges

Buffalo Bayou, Houston Ship Channel Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Packery Channel Corpus Christi, Bob Hall Pier Portland, Nueces Bay Texas City, Galveston Bay Port Arthur Eagle Point

Sources: NOAA CO-OPS predictions for gauge 8771722 (hourly and high/low, relative to mean lower low water, local time; actual water level varies with wind and pressure, sometimes by a foot or more). NDBC buoy GRRT2 latest observation. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations (gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc). Marine products from the National Weather Service. Coast from the US Census Bureau county file.