Next high tide at Lima (Callao): 15:00 GMT-5, 0.52 m

Tide times at Lima (Callao) on Sunday, 26 April 2026: first high tide at 19:00, first low tide at 21:00. Sunrise 06:14, sunset 17:57.

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 Sun 26 Apr

Suggested time slots at Lima (Callao), derived from the tide, sun, moon, and conditions data on this page. Rough guidance, not a forecast.

• Tidepooling
  Around 21:00, lowest tide today
  Tide drops to -0.17 m for about an hour either side
  Confidence: high
  7-day tidepooling strip →
• SUP
  Around 21:00, low water
  Slack water, wind 5.5 m/s
  Confidence: medium
  7-day sup strip →
• Fishing
  Around 14:42, solunar major near sunset
  Moon transit nearest the sun's horizon — angler tradition only, no certainty
  Confidence: low
  7-day fishing strip →
• Beach walk
  Around 21:00, beach widest
  Tide low, wind 5.5 m/s — comfortable for an out-and-back
  Confidence: medium
  7-day beach walk strip →

Spring & neap tides at Lima (Callao)

Next spring tide on Fri 01 May (range 0.8m). Next neap on Thu 30 Apr.

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 Lima (Callao)

Lima fronts the Pacific on Peru's central coast where the Andes drop almost directly to the ocean, with the working port of Callao on the broad bay just north of the river mouth and the long Costa Verde cliff line running south through Miraflores, Barranco, and Chorrillos toward the surf coast at Punta Hermosa and Punta Negra. The city sits inside one of the driest coastal deserts on Earth — Lima averages under 10 millimetres of rainfall a year — but the garúa coastal fog that rolls in off the cold Humboldt Current keeps the air damp and grey for half the year. The tide here is a small mixed semidiurnal signal characteristic of open Pacific coasts at this latitude: mean range at the Callao gauge is about 0.7 metres, climbing past 1.0 metre on the largest spring tides and dropping near 0.4 on neaps. The pattern is two highs and two lows of unequal size each day, with the difference between the higher high and the lower low varying through the lunar month. The defining oceanographic feature is not the tide range but the cold Humboldt Current that sweeps north along the coast from the Antarctic — sea-surface temperatures stay between 14 and 19 degrees year-round at this latitude despite Lima sitting at twelve degrees south, and the cold-water upwelling that the current drives feeds the largest single-species fishery on Earth: the anchoveta industrial fleet that supplies the bulk of global fish meal and fish oil. The El Niño cycle that periodically warms the surface and collapses the anchoveta catch shapes the working calendar of the entire Peruvian fishing industry. The garúa fog season from May through November flattens the surf and turns the entire coast grey; the December-through-April clear season opens up the long Pacific swell that the south-coast breaks at Punta Hermosa, Cerro Azul, and the long left at Chicama further north all rise to. The ceviche houses at the Villa María del Triunfo wholesale market read the boat-return calendar more than the tide table; the surfers at Makaha and La Pampilla read the swell more than the height swing. The Costa Verde cliff path along the Miraflores escarpment, the surf at Waikiki Lima, and the working fishing pier at Chorrillos all read the table for different windows. Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page; for authoritative Peruvian tide data, the Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación (DHN) of the Peruvian Navy publishes the official tide tables.

Common questions about tides at Lima (Callao)