Falmouth Harbour, Antigua tide times

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived.

Model-derived from a global ocean grid. Useful indication; expect about ±45 minutes on average vs. a local harmonic gauge, individual stations vary widely. See /methodology for per-region detail. Not for navigation.

Conditions as of 00:00 local time. Refreshes daily.

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived. · Not for navigation.

The angler tradition for major/minor fishing windows: major ≈3-hour windows around moon transit and opposition; minor ≈2-hour windows around moonrise and moonset. Times are America/Antigua local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Falmouth Harbour is on Antigua's south coast, a deep natural anchorage that opens east from the main bay and connects to English Harbour through the narrow Freeman's Bay channel. The two harbours together — Falmouth and English Harbour — form the most historically significant sailing complex in the eastern Caribbean. English Harbour was Nelson's Dockyard from the 1720s onward; the British Royal Navy used the protected anchorage for ship repair and provisioning through the era of Caribbean colonial warfare, and the Georgian dockyard buildings have been restored as Nelson's Dockyard National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016. Falmouth Harbour, the larger and more open of the two, is the operational base for Antigua Sailing Week — the first week of May, running since 1968, and now one of the most significant offshore regattas in the world outside the major ocean races. The starting area is in the outer Falmouth/English Harbour approaches; spectators watch from the Shirley Heights lookout, the high ground above the harbour that also holds the restored military fortifications of the Shirley Heights Battery. The jump-up rum party at Shirley Heights on Sunday evenings is a long-established Antigua institution, separate from regatta season but busy year-round on the tourism calendar. The marina infrastructure in Falmouth Harbour is comprehensive — Antigua Yacht Club, Antigua Slipway, English Harbour marina with full yacht services — reflecting the harbour's role as a major refit and provisioning stop for offshore passages. The approach from the south is straightforward in all but the lowest visibility; the two harbours are sheltered from northeast trade swell by the hills above and from southwest swell by the outer reef. The tidal regime at Falmouth Harbour is Caribbean microtidal: mixed semidiurnal, spring range 0.3 to 0.5 metres. The harbour stays navigable and accessible at all states of tide; the tidal current at the narrow Freeman's Bay channel between Falmouth and English Harbour runs up to 1.5 knots on a spring ebb, noticeable for dinghies and paddlecraft. Shore anglers at the outer Falmouth headlands fish the evening flood for jack and barracuda. All tide predictions on this page come from Open-Meteo Marine gridded model — accuracy within plus or minus 45 minutes on timing and 0.2 to 0.3 metres on height.