Venice (Punta della Salute) tide times

The hero block shows the next high tide at Punta della Salute in local Rome time. The 7-day table covers all four daily extremes. Note that high water at the inland lagoon edges (Mestre, Marghera, Burano) lags Punta della Salute by up to 30 minutes depending on the bocca through which the tide enters.

Acqua alta is the Venetian term for exceptional high water — when astronomical tide, low atmospheric pressure, and sustained sirocco wind from the south combine to push water levels significantly above the predicted high. Routine acqua alta events flood the lower courtyards a few times each year. Major events flood San Marco and the historic centre. The November 1966 event reached 194 cm and the November 2019 event reached 187 cm — the two highest on record. ISPRA's Centro Maree publishes acqua alta forecasts up to several days in advance.

Mean range at Punta della Salute is about 0.6 metres — the largest astronomical tide in the Mediterranean. Spring tides push close to 0.9 metres around new and full moons; neaps drop near 0.4. By contrast, most of the rest of the Mediterranean runs ranges of 0.2 to 0.3 metres. The Adriatic's elongated shape and the head-of-basin geometry concentrate the small Mediterranean signal at the lagoon.

Open-Meteo Marine, a global ocean-grid model. Useful for general lagoon planning, but the authoritative source for Venice tide and acqua alta forecasting is ISPRA's Centro Maree at the Veneto regional office, which runs the historic Punta della Salute gauge and publishes both routine predictions and acqua alta event forecasts. The Comune di Venezia publishes the same data through the public-facing acqua alta portal.

No. For piloting in the Venice lagoon, transiting the bocche, or working the canals use ISPRA's authoritative tide tables and the Magistrato alle Acque chart products. The MOSE flood-barrier system at the three bocche actively reshapes lagoon hydraulics during raising events; that information comes from the Provveditorato Interregionale alle Opere Pubbliche real-time data feed, not from a gridded prediction.