Malé, Maldives tide times

The hero block shows the next high tide at the Malé reference gauge in local Maldives time (MVT, UTC+5, no DST). The 7-day table covers all daily highs and lows. The mixed semidiurnal pattern produces two highs and two lows of unequal size each day, with the asymmetry varying through the lunar month and the equatorial position keeping the seasonal cycle weak.

Mean range at the Malé reference gauge is about 0.7 metres — a small Indian Ocean atoll signal. Spring tides push close to 1.1 metres and neaps drop near 0.3. The atoll geometry concentrates tidal exchange through the natural channels (kandus) between islands, where currents can exceed two knots on the change of tide. Sea-surface temperatures stay between 27 and 30 degrees year-round at the equatorial latitude.

Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model. Useful for planning resort dhoni crossings, snorkel-and-dive windows at the Banana Reef and HP reef sites, the Pasta Point and Sultans surf timing during the south-west monsoon, and the airport seaplane operations between Velana and the outlying island resorts. For authoritative Maldivian tide data, the Maldives Meteorological Service and the National Bureau of Statistics publish the official tide tables.

The Maldives is the lowest-lying nation on Earth — the average elevation is about 1.5 metres above mean sea level, the highest natural point in the country is 2.4 metres, and roughly 80% of the 1,200 islands sit less than one metre above sea level. The country has been the most prominent voice in the UNFCCC Small Island Developing States bloc on sea-level rise since the 1989 Malé Declaration, and the 2009 underwater cabinet meeting that President Mohamed Nasheed convened on a coral reef to sign a climate-change document remains a defining international image of the existential threat. Hulhumalé reclaimed island sits about 2 metres above sea level as a longer-term population centre.

No. For piloting in or out of the Malé harbour, the Velana International Airport seaplane terminal, or any inter-atoll dhoni crossing use the Maldives Meteorological Service authoritative tide tables, the Maldives Ports Limited pilotage guidance, and the UK Hydrographic Office Indian Ocean pilot for the kandu channels between atolls. The kandu currents can exceed two knots on the change of tide and the reef-shelf hazards require working pilotage for any commercial transit.