Tide times for Akureyri, Eyjafjörður

Tide curve — next 24 hours

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.

Best windows Mon 27 Apr

Suggested time slots at Akureyri, Eyjafjörður, derived from the tide, sun, moon, and conditions data on this page. Rough guidance, not a forecast.

• Fishing
  Around 04:41, solunar major near sunrise
  Moon transit overlaps golden hour, the solunar tradition rates this high
  Confidence: high
  7-day fishing strip →

About tides at Akureyri, Eyjafjörður

Akureyri sits at the head of Eyjafjörður on the north coast of Iceland, the country's second city and the working capital of the Northeastern Region. The fjord runs about 60 kilometres south from the Greenland Sea opening past Hrísey island to the Akureyri industrial harbour at the head, framed by glaciated mountains on both sides that drop directly to the water. The Arctic Circle sits about 60 kilometres north through Grímsey island — the only Icelandic territory that crosses the parallel — and the latitude shapes the entire working calendar of the place. The tide here is the modulated North Atlantic signal that the long fjord geometry reshapes as it propagates inland from the open Greenland Sea. Mean range at the Akureyri harbour gauge is about 1.4 metres, climbing past 1.9 metres on the largest spring tides and dropping near 0.9 on neaps. The pattern is cleanly semidiurnal, two highs and two lows of comparable size about twelve and a half hours apart, with the propagating tide reaching the head of the fjord about an hour after the open-coast timing while gaining slightly in amplitude through the funnel geometry. The defining latitude feature is photoperiod. The midnight sun in June produces about three weeks of continuous daylight when the sun never quite sets and the solunar fishing windows extend through what would be night anywhere else; the December darkness around the winter solstice compresses to about three hours of usable twilight per day, with no actual sunrise for the deepest winter weeks. That is a different planning calendar than any temperate-zone coast runs and one that the local fishing fleet, the whale-watching operators, and the cross-country ski-touring community at Hlíðarfjall all build their year around. The whale-watching fleet out of Húsavík to the east on Skjálfandi reads tide and current for humpback feeding grounds at the bay, where the cold Greenland Sea water and the East Icelandic Current produce reliable zooplankton blooms. The working herring boats out of Dalvík, the geothermal sea swim at Bjórböðin (the beer-bath spa) at Árskógssandur on the western fjord shore, the puffin colony at Lundey island, the basalt-shelf intertidal at the Akureyri foreshore, and the cross-fjord ferry to Hrísey all read the table for different windows. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page; for authoritative Icelandic tide data, the Icelandic Coast Guard's Hydrographic Department (Sjómælingar Íslands) publishes the official tide tables and operates the Akureyri reference gauge.

Common questions about tides at Akureyri, Eyjafjörður