Gothenburg, Västra Götaland tide times

The hero block shows the next high tide at the Göteborg port gauge in local Swedish time (CET in winter, CEST in summer, with DST). The 7-day table covers all daily highs and lows. The Smögen gauge in the northern Bohuslän archipelago reads close to the Göteborg timing — the Skagerrak signal propagates the entire coast with only minor phase delay.

Mean range is about 0.3 metres at the port gauge — a small semidiurnal signal. Spring tides push close to 0.5 metres and neaps drop close to flat. The astronomical tide here is small because the Skagerrak is a wide shallow basin connected to the open North Sea rather than a resonant funnel. Wind and pressure changes routinely shift apparent water levels 30 to 60 centimetres above or below the predicted astronomical signal.

Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model. Useful for planning the Bohuslän cruising grounds, the Saltholmen ferry windows, and the GKSS sailing-school sessions. For authoritative Swedish water-level forecasts, SMHI publishes the official tide and surge products and operates the gauge network at Göteborg, Smögen, and Kungsvik.

The Baltic Sea east of the Öresund is a long, narrow, almost-enclosed basin connected to the open ocean only through the narrow Danish straits at Öresund, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt. The astronomical tide cannot propagate cleanly through that bottleneck and almost no ocean-tide signal reaches the eastern Swedish coast. Stockholm and the Gulf of Bothnia run a near-flat tidal regime where wind, atmospheric pressure, and freshwater inflow dominate water-level variation. Gothenburg sits on the western side of the Öresund constriction in the open Skagerrak and gets a small but real semidiurnal signal.

No. For piloting in or out of the Göta älv, transiting the Bohuslän archipelago, or working the lobster grounds at Smögen and the Koster Islands use SMHI authoritative water-level forecasts, the Sjöfartsverket pilotage guidance and notices to mariners, and the local harbour-master windows. Westerly gales can override the astronomical signal entirely and the granite-skerry archipelago demands real navigational sources.