Digby 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 19:00 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/Toronto local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Last spring tide on Sun 03 May (range 6.0m). Next neap on Sat 09 May.

Spring tides cluster around new and full moons (biggest swings). Neap tides land on quarter moons (smallest swings). See the spring tide and neap tide glossary entries for the why.

Digby sits at the mouth of the Annapolis Basin on the inner Bay of Fundy, where the amplification effect of the bay's funnel geometry takes tides that average 2 to 3 metres on Nova Scotia's Atlantic shore and stretches them to a mean spring range of approximately 8.0 metres. This is not an abstraction — at low water the inner basin drains to a condition that looks like riverbed. The Digby scallop fleet, which operates the largest concentration of scallop draggers in the world by vessel count, is built around this reality: every vessel in the fleet is designed with bilge keels or flat-bottomed hull sections allowing it to sit upright on the harbour bottom at low water. This is how a working harbour functions at this tidal range — you build the boats to the tide, not the tide to the boats. Scallops from the Bay of Fundy are processed on-site in Digby, and the fresh scallop at the waterfront restaurants is the single most useful piece of culinary information about this town. The season runs roughly May through October, with peak catch from the offshore grounds in summer. The ferry to Saint John, New Brunswick, crosses the Bay of Fundy in approximately 2.5 hours — a crossing that operates on a schedule timed to tidal conditions and sea state in the upper Bay, where the same tidal dynamics produce significant chop on the crossing route on large spring tides with opposing wind. For paddlers, the Annapolis Basin is an advanced-to-expert kayaking environment. The tidal currents at the Digby Gut — the narrow entrance passage connecting the Annapolis Basin to the outer Bay — reach 3 to 5 knots on spring tides, producing standing waves and rip conditions at the gut on the flood and ebb. Paddling inside the basin is calmer but the 8-metre range demands careful trip planning: a put-in at high water on a spring tide will see the water drop 4 metres in the first three hours of the ebb. Fishing opportunities include striped bass in the tidal channels of the Annapolis River (35 km east via Annapolis Royal) and pollock from the ferry wharf on the incoming tide. Thirty-five kilometres east along the Annapolis River, the Annapolis Royal Tidal Generating Station has been operating since 1984 — the world's first and longest-running commercial tidal power station, using a 7.6 MW Straflo turbine in a low-head sluiceway across the Annapolis River estuary. The station is open to visitors and provides context for what 8 metres of tidal range actually means as an energy resource. Predictions on this page come from Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model. Accuracy is typically within plus or minus 45 minutes on timing and 0.2 to 0.3 metres on height — model-derived, not from a local gauge. For authoritative Canadian tide data, consult the Canadian Hydrographic Service (tides.gc.ca).