Next high tide at Scheveningen, South Holland: 06:00 CEST, -1.10 m

Tide times at Scheveningen, South Holland on Monday, 27 April 2026: first high tide at 02:00, first low tide at 04:00, second high tide at 06:00, second low tide at 08:00, third high tide at 14:00, third low tide at 21:00. Sunrise 06:22, sunset 20:59.

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 Scheveningen, South Holland, derived from the tide, sun, moon, and conditions data on this page. Rough guidance, not a forecast.

• Tidepooling
  Around 08:00, lowest tide today
  Tide drops to -1.34 m for about an hour either side
  Confidence: high
  7-day tidepooling strip →

Spring & neap tides at Scheveningen, South Holland

Next spring tide on Thu 30 Apr (range 2.3m). Last neap on Mon 27 Apr. Next neap on Sun 03 May.

Spring tides cluster around new and full moons (biggest swings). Neap tides land on quarter moons (smallest swings). See the spring tide and neap tide glossary entries for the why.

About tides at Scheveningen, South Holland

Scheveningen sits on the open North Sea coast on the western edge of The Hague, with the long sand-and-dune shoreline running south past the Hook of Holland to the Maasvlakte and the Delta Works, and north past Wassenaar and Katwijk to the IJmuiden lock and Zandvoort. The harbour itself is one of the busiest small fishing and recreational ports on the Dutch coast, separated from the open beach by a pair of stone breakwaters that frame the harbour entrance. The tide here runs the southern North Sea signature: cleanly semidiurnal, two highs and two lows of comparable size each day, twelve and a half hours apart. Mean range at Scheveningen is about 1.7 metres, climbing past 2.0 metres on spring tides and dropping near 1.2 on neaps. Inside Rotterdam Europoort just to the south the propagating tide reaches the harbour about 30 to 60 minutes behind the open coast, with the working pilots on the New Waterway timing approaches by the slack on the rising flood. Beach walkers reading for the wide-sand windows at the bottom of the cycle, kitesurfers at the breakwater wing, swimmers on the long stretch from Scheveningen Strand south to Kijkduin, and the local fishing fleet leaving the inner harbour for the open North Sea each read the table for different reasons. Lowest spring lows around new and full moons open the inner-shelf sandbanks for hours either side. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page; for authoritative Dutch tide data, Rijkswaterstaat operates the Scheveningen gauge as part of the national network and publishes the official tide tables. Storm-surge events in winter from North Sea low-pressure systems can lift levels well above predicted, and the Maeslantkering storm-surge barrier at the New Waterway is designed to close when forecast water exceeds 3 metres above NAP at Hoek van Holland.

Common questions about tides at Scheveningen, South Holland