Kos 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 02:00 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 Europe/Athens local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Kos is a long, thin island in the southern Aegean, 4 km from the Turkish coast, one of the most diverse Dodecanese islands for water sports. The island has a flat interior suitable for cycling (unique among the larger Greek islands) and a coastline divided between the calm, sandy beaches on the eastern and northern sides facing Turkey, and the windier exposed beaches on the southwestern coast facing the open Mediterranean. Tidal range is 0.1 to 0.3 metres — negligible. Tigaki beach on the north coast and the Brothers beach area west of Kos town are the main windsurfing and kitesurfing zones. The steady Meltemi from the north in summer accelerates between the Turkish coast and Kos, producing 15 to 25 knot conditions that are more consistent than many Aegean locations (the Turkish landmass provides some thermal heating effect that sustains the wind). Several windsurf schools operate at Tigaki. Karadamena on the south coast has a different character — exposed to the Aegean swell that wraps around the western tip of Kos, with small beach break surf in southerly swell conditions (typically after autumn depressions). The water is clearer on the south side than the murkier Turkish-coast-influenced water on the north. Hippocrates was born on Kos around 460 BC — the island's main tourism claim to medical history. The Asklepion, a 4th-century BC healing sanctuary and medical school (3 km from Kos Town), is the principal archaeological site. The plane tree in the central plateia of Kos Town is traditionally claimed to be the one under which Hippocrates taught — the current tree is about 500 years old, not 2500, but the symbolism is intact. Diving off Kos is centred on the Agios Fokas headland east of the town, where the reef drops sharply to 20 to 30 metres with good fish populations. The wreck of a Byzantine ship sunk in the 6th century AD was excavated off Kos in the 1980s; the original site is protected but the Kos Archaeological Museum has significant artefacts from the wreck. 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 Greek coastal conditions, consult the Hellenic National Meteorological Service at emy.gr.