Duqm tide times

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.

Conditions as of 08:00 local time. Refreshes daily.

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived. · Not for navigation.

The angler tradition for major/minor fishing windows: major ≈3-hour windows around moon transit and opposition; minor ≈2-hour windows around moonrise and moonset. Times are Asia/Muscat local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Wed 20 May (range 2.2m). Last neap on Tue 19 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.

Duqm is Oman's newest large-scale development zone, a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on the open Arabian Sea coast in Al Wusta Governorate — the most sparsely populated stretch of the Omani coast — where a deep-water port, a dry dock facility, an oil refinery, and associated industrial infrastructure have been built from near-scratch since the 2010s. The rationale for Duqm's development is strategic: the port sits outside the Strait of Hormuz, giving Oman and its trading partners an Arabian Sea export terminal unaffected by any future Hormuz closure. Chinese investment through the Oman-China Joint Investment Fund and the Al Duqm Refinery project has been a significant component of the development financing. The Duqm Rock (Baat al-Hujarat) is the geological landmark of the coastline in and around Duqm: a series of granite boulders and outcrops on the coast south of the port, sculpted by tens of thousands of years of wind and wave erosion into rounded, stacked, and cantilevered forms that photographers target specifically. The coastal access to the rock formation is straightforward; the boulders are accessible on foot from the coastal road and provide foreground interest for seascape photography. The hard Precambrian granite of this stretch contrasts with the limestone that characterises most of the Omani coast. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) aggregate seasonally in the offshore waters near Duqm — the upwelling system along the Omani coast driven by the southwest monsoon concentrates zooplankton, and whale sharks follow the aggregation. The offshore season broadly coincides with the southwest monsoon period (May to September) when coastal winds are strong and the sea can be rough; boat access to offshore aggregations depends on sea conditions. The Duqm port area has day-boat and dive-boat operators who run whale shark encounters in season, though this is an emerging rather than established tourism infrastructure. Wadi Shab, one of Oman's most celebrated canyon hikes (a route through a limestone gorge ending at a pool and cave swimmable only by diving under a rock ledge), is approximately 170 km north of Duqm — accessible as a long day trip or with an overnight near Qalhat on the Gulf of Oman coast. The Arabian Sea tidal regime at Duqm is mixed semidiurnal: mean spring range 1.5 to 2.0 m. The open coast is fully exposed to the southwest monsoon swell from May to September — wave heights of 2 to 4 m are common during this period and the port entrance current and wave action are significant for small craft. The northeast monsoon (November to March) brings calmer conditions and the primary tourist season. Predictions on this page come from Open-Meteo Marine gridded model. The DGMET in Oman publishes the authoritative tide tables for Duqm.