Bergen, Vestland tide times

The hero block shows the next high tide at the Bergen gauge in local Oslo time (CET in winter, CEST in summer). The 7-day table covers all four daily extremes. High water at the heads of Sognefjord and Hardangerfjord lags the Bergen reading by 30 to 60 minutes depending on the fjord's length.

Mean range at Bergen is about 1.0 metre — moderate by North Sea standards. Spring tides push close to 1.3 metres around new and full moons; neaps drop near 0.6 metres. Inside the long fjords the height grows slightly toward the head while the open coast at the western islands runs a similar swing but earlier in time.

Norwegian fjords behave like long, narrow tidal channels with a closed head. The tide enters from the open coast and propagates as a free wave to the head of the fjord. In Sognefjord — over 200 km long — the tide takes more than an hour to reach the head from the coast, and the height grows slightly because the basin narrows. Mostraumen and other narrow points along the system run sharp tidal currents that exceed several knots on the change of tide.

Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model. Useful for daily planning around Bergen and the inner fjord network. For authoritative Norwegian tide data, Kartverket Sjødivisjonen operates the official gauge network from Oslo through Bergen to Tromsø and publishes tide tables and real-time water-level forecasts.

No. For piloting in or out of Bergen, the inner fjord network, or any of the narrow tidal-current points like Mostraumen and Saltstraumen further north use Kartverket's authoritative tide tables, the Norwegian Coastal Administration chart products, and the latest pilot information. The fjord-mouth currents and the open-coast skerry channels demand real navigational sources, not a planning tool.