Jacmel 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.

Jacmel is a coastal town on the southern coast of Haiti, in the Sud-Est department, facing the Caribbean Sea. It is arguably the most architecturally preserved colonial town in Haiti — the ironwork balconies, gingerbread wooden filigree facades, and 19th-century French colonial buildings that line the streets above the waterfront survived the 2010 earthquake (which devastated Port-au-Prince to the northwest) with significant but not complete losses. The town was historically a major coffee export port — Jacmel coffee, grown in the mountains of the Massif de la Selle immediately inland, was among the finest in the Caribbean in the 19th century, and the merchant houses along the Grand Rue and the waterfront were built on that trade. The merchant warehouses, some with their original iron export doors, are still standing. The tidal regime at Jacmel is Caribbean microtidal — mixed semidiurnal, spring range approximately 0.3 to 0.5 metres. The Caribbean coast here faces south and is partially sheltered from the dominant northeast trades by the Tiburon Peninsula landmass; swell enters from the south and southeast and is generally 0.5 to 1.0 metre in normal conditions, with larger events during the September to October passage of Atlantic storm systems. The Jacmel waterfront has a concrete seawall with a small commercial harbour. Local fishing boats — painted pirogues — work the reef and the open Caribbean from the beach east of the harbour. The coral reef system off Jacmel's southern coast extends west toward Les Cayes and east toward the Dominican border; reef condition is variable and poorly documented by current survey. The town's arts scene is genuine and active. Jacmel has produced a disproportionate number of Haitian visual artists and the papier-mâché craft tradition — elaborate carnival masks and figures — has its most sustained community of practitioners here. The Carnaval de Jacmel, held in February, is one of the best in Haiti and involves processions of papier-mâché costumes and traditional characters through the colonial streets. The Fête de la Saint-Anne in July draws pilgrims to the church and fair on the waterfront. The beach at Cayes-Jacmel, 5 kilometres west of town, is one of the better swimming beaches accessible from Jacmel — a 400-metre sand beach backed by palm trees with calmer conditions than the open harbour front. 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.