Labadie 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/Port-au-Prince local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Last spring tide on Mon 18 May (range 0.8m). Next neap on Fri 22 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.

Labadie is a peninsula on the northern coast of Haiti, 15 kilometres west of Cap-Haïtien, where Royal Caribbean International has operated a private beach resort under a long-term lease agreement since 1985. The resort, marketed as Labadee, receives up to 7,000 cruise ship passengers per day in peak season from the cruise ships that anchor in the bay and tender passengers ashore. The private resort occupies the western and southern end of the peninsula; the village of Labadie, a Haitian fishing community, continues on the northern and eastern coast of the same peninsula largely independent of the resort operation. The tidal regime at Labadie is mixed semidiurnal — spring range approximately 0.3 to 0.5 metres, typical of the Windward Passage coastline. Water level variation is minor; the small Caribbean-adjacent tidal signal is less significant than the swell from north-facing cold front events in winter. The beach within the Royal Caribbean resort is genuinely attractive — a series of small sand beaches separated by wooded headlands, facing south into the sheltered bay and protected from north swell by the peninsula itself. The coral reef on the outer northern and eastern coast of the Labadie peninsula is largely undocumented by current scientific survey but is accessible by local fishermen who can be hired for boat trips by independent visitors to the village side of the peninsula. The fishing village of Labadie has its own relationship with the sea — small-boat fishermen working the reef and the Windward Passage early morning, beach launches through the low shore break, and fish sales on the sand. The visual and economic contrast between the cruise resort operation and the adjacent Haitian village is stark and has been noted extensively in travel journalism and development economics literature. From the cruise ship perspective, Labadie is one of the most visited private resort destinations in the Caribbean — the resort capacity means the throughput of passengers is among the highest of any Royal Caribbean private island. The Windward Passage visible from the northern shore is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the Caribbean, with container ships and tankers in regular view on their transit between the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea. 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. The Hydrographie Nationale d'Haïti is the national maritime authority.