Stockholm 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 06:00 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 Europe/Stockholm local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Stockholm straddles the point where Lake Mälaren empties into the Baltic, with the Old Town (Gamla Stan) occupying the island between them. The connection is controlled by Slussen — the lock and sluice complex at the southern tip of Gamla Stan — which maintains Lake Mälaren roughly 0.7 m above mean Baltic sea level by regulating outflow. This makes Stockholm unusual: the lake to the west is a freshwater reservoir with controlled stage; the archipelago channels to the east respond to Baltic sea level dynamics. The Baltic Sea has virtually no astronomical tide at Stockholm. The predicted range is approximately 0.1–0.2 m — effectively unmeasurable in daily life. What drives sea level here is not the moon but the weather. A sustained westerly across the Baltic can pile 0.4–0.5 m of water against the Stockholm archipelago within 24 hours; a high-pressure system sitting over Scandinavia depresses sea level by 10–15 cm. These meteorological sea level changes are what SMHI tracks with its network of coastal tide gauges (mareografer), including the long-running station at Djurgårdsbrunnsviken in central Stockholm, which has records going back to 1774 — one of the longest continuous sea level records in the world. A complicating factor unique to Stockholm is post-glacial land uplift (landhöjning). The Scandinavian bedrock is still rebounding from the weight of the last ice sheet, rising at approximately 4–5 mm per year around Stockholm. Over a human lifetime this amounts to 20–25 cm of apparent sea level fall — a rate that, counterintuitively, is faster than global mean sea level rise in this location, so Stockholm's relative sea level is currently falling slightly. This has no day-to-day relevance for water users but matters for long-term planning. Sea kayakers based in Stockholm typically launch from Kastellholmen, Nacka Strand, or the Djurgårdskanalen depending on which direction they are heading into the archipelago. The passage from the inner city to the open archipelago covers roughly 20 km of progressively more exposed water, passing through Baggensfjärden and out toward Sandhamn or Långskär. The relevant sea level parameter for inner-city paddling is not tide but rather whether a low-pressure system has piled or drained water from the Mälaren outlet — typically expressed as the Slussen lock operating level, posted by Stockholm Stad. The archipelago guest harbours (gästhamnar) at Vaxholm, Möja, and Grinda are all marina-style, with floating docks that handle 0.3–0.5 m of sea level variation comfortably. Anglers working the Stockholm archipelago target perch (abborre) and pike (gädda) in the brackish inner archipelago waters and sea trout (havsöring) and pike-perch (gös) in the outer archipelago and along the coast. Sea trout run up into the Mälaren tributaries in autumn; in tidal terms what matters is not tide height but wind direction, since a strong onshore wind concentrates food at windward shores and draws fish in to feed. The Stockholm archipelago is a popular destination for crayfish parties (kräftskifte) in August, when freshwater crayfish (kräftor) are harvested from the inner island lakes and brackish bays. TideTurtle displays Open-Meteo Marine sea level data for Stockholm. Astronomical tidal range here is approximately 0.1–0.2 m; sea level variation is dominated by wind setup, barometric pressure (each hPa ≈ 1 cm), and Baltic seiches with a ~27-hour period. Open-Meteo Marine accuracy is typically ±45 minutes on timing and ±0.2–0.3 m on height. SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) is the authoritative source for Stockholm water level information at smhi.se/klimatdata/oceanografi/havsnivåer.