Lance aux Épines, Grenada 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/Grenada local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Lance aux Épines occupies the southwestern tip of Grenada's main island, a low limestone peninsula that extends into the calm water between the main island and the outer reef. The name is French — it translates approximately as 'point of thorns' — and reflects the island's history as a French colony before British rule. The peninsula today is a mix of private villas, the Calabash Boutique Hotel, and the Prickly Bay marina complex, one of the primary yacht services facilities in the southern Caribbean. Prickly Bay, on the northern side of the peninsula, is the enclosed anchorage that serves the yacht fleet; it is sheltered from the Atlantic swell by the peninsula and reef to the south and from the trade wind by the headland to the northeast. The southern side of the peninsula, facing the open water between Grenada and Calivigny Island offshore, is the beach side — a succession of small sandy beaches and rocky points accessible from the road or by foot. Calivigny Island, visible roughly 800 metres offshore, has the remains of a U.S. Special Operations Forces training facility from the 1983 invasion; the reef between the island and the mainland is the principal snorkelling site in the area, accessible by kayak or boat from the beach or the marina. The coral coverage on the Calivigny reef is reasonable by southern Caribbean standards — better than the reef fringe immediately around the southern peninsula because Calivigny's outer position catches cleaner water. Turtles are regularly sighted at Calivigny; hawksbill turtles forage on the reef and occasionally nest on the small beach on the island's northern side. The tidal regime at Lance aux Épines is Caribbean microtidal: mixed semidiurnal, spring range roughly 0.3 to 0.5 metres. For divers and snorkellers the practical planning input is the morning calm window — the trade wind from the northeast builds by 10:00 to 11:00 and produces a cross-chop on the open south-facing water by early afternoon that makes snorkelling significantly less comfortable. The 1- to 2-hour window after sunrise on a calm morning typically offers the best visibility and the most comfortable surface conditions. Kayakers from the beach or marina paddling the 800 metres to Calivigny plan to depart before 09:00 and return before the wind builds; the return leg into a 15-knot trade takes considerably more effort than the downwind outbound run. Shore-based photographers on the southern beach get the early morning light directly across the water toward Calivigny and the offshore horizon; the palms above the beach at the Calabash provide a foreground. 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.