Les Cayes 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.

Les Cayes, also written Aux Cayes, is the main port of Haiti's southern peninsula — the administrative centre of the Sud department and the economic hub of the western Tiburon Peninsula region. The town faces south across the Bay of Cayes into the Caribbean Sea. The bay is partially enclosed by a system of offshore shoals and the Île-à-Vache to the southwest, creating a coastal zone that is more sheltered than the open southern Caribbean. The tidal regime is Caribbean microtidal — mixed semidiurnal, spring range approximately 0.3 to 0.5 metres. The Port des Cayes handles inter-island ferry traffic, coastal cargo, and the fuel imports that supply the southern region; the commercial quay is the active centre of the waterfront. Île-à-Vache (Cow Island) is 45 minutes by boat from Les Cayes — a 10-kilometre island of approximately 14,000 residents with no cars, minimal electricity infrastructure in most communities, and beaches and coral reef that represent some of the least-visited coastal resources in the Caribbean. The island's eastern tip has a sand beach of several kilometres with close-in coral reef beginning at 1 to 2 metres depth. The reef on Île-à-Vache's south and west faces is in better condition than most easily accessible Caribbean reef because of the minimal boat traffic and the low density of human pressure; it has not been systematically documented by coral health surveys. Port Morgan, on the northwest corner of Île-à-Vache, is an eco-lodge operation that has been running for several decades and serves as the primary tourist infrastructure point for the island. The rest of the island is fishing village communities accessible by motorised canoe. Hurricane Matthew (October 2016) was catastrophic for the Les Cayes region — the hurricane made landfall near Chardonnières to the southwest with 145-knot winds and a significant storm surge, and the coastal communities of the Sud department sustained the most severe damage of any region in Haiti in that event. Recovery has been ongoing. The coastal reef that provides artisanal fishing for the southern peninsula communities — snapper, grouper, lobster, conch — is the economic foundation for the coastal population; the fishing is traditional and minimally capitalised. 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.