Taitung 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 Asia/Taipei local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Next spring tide on Fri 08 May (range 1.0m). Next neap on Sun 10 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.

Taitung is the main city of southeastern Taiwan, where the East Rift Valley meets the coast and the Pacific opens eastward toward the Philippine Sea. The city sits on the flat alluvial plain at the mouth of the Beinan River, behind a low barrier beach; the old Taitung city centre (Beinan area) is a few kilometres inland, and development has pushed toward the Beinan River mouth and the coastal strip. Taitung is the departure point for ferry services to Green Island (Lyudao) and Orchid Island (Lanyu), and the domestic airport serves flights from Taipei. The tidal regime at Taitung is semidiurnal and Pacific-driven, consistent with the rest of eastern Taiwan. Spring range at Taitung runs approximately 1.8 to 2.3 m — slightly smaller than Hualien to the north due to coastal geometry and the influence of the Bashi Channel to the south. Two near-equal highs and two near-equal lows per day, with the standard spring-neap variation around the lunar cycle. The Taiwan Central Weather Bureau (CWB) publishes authoritative tide predictions for Taitung. The East Rift Valley is the dominant inland feature from Taitung. The valley runs 180 km north to Hualien between two parallel mountain ranges — the Central Range to the west and the Coastal Range to the east — and is an active tectonic structure; the eastern flank of Taiwan experiences significant seismic activity, and the valley floor has been the site of multiple significant earthquakes over the past century. The hot springs at Zhiben (Zhipen), 14 km southwest of Taitung city, are a legacy of this geological activity: thermal water at 45 to 50°C emerges in the Zhiben River valley in a setting of forested hills with a karst-like limestone character. Shanyuan Bay is a sheltered crescent beach roughly 20 km north of Taitung on the coastal highway. The bay is protected from direct Pacific swell by a headland; the water is calmer than the more exposed sections of the east coast and the beach is good for swimming in conditions that might make the fully exposed beaches uncomfortable. The Taitung Forest Park, created from former airport land on the Beinan River sandbar, runs along the coast immediately south of the city and connects to the Beinan River mouth estuary — a birding area, a popular cycle route, and a place where the low-energy tidal flat environment contrasts with the exposed Pacific coast a short distance away. The Beinan River mouth and the tidal flat on the inner side of the barrier beach are influenced by both river discharge and tidal stage. At spring low water the tidal flat between the barrier beach and the coastal forest park exposes a sandy zone used by migratory shore birds and accessible by the cycle path network. The Beinan River mouth position shifts seasonally with sand bar movement, as is common on barrier beach coasts in Taiwan where large rivers deposit significant sediment. The Amis Harvest Festival and various other Indigenous cultural events in the Taitung area typically run in summer (July through August) — the same season with the highest typhoon probability. If attending summer events, build schedule flexibility around typhoon alerts issued by the CWB, which cover eastern Taiwan with good lead time. The Fugang fishing port, 15 km north of Taitung city on the coastal highway, is the embarkation point for ferries to Green Island and Orchid Island. The port itself is small; the ferry pier is tide-insensitive at the Taitung coast's spring range of 1.8 to 2.3 m. Early morning departures are common on the island ferry schedule, and arriving at the port before dawn in summer for a first-departure ferry is a standard experience for island-bound travellers from Taitung. Predictions on this page come from Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model; accuracy is typically within plus or minus 45 minutes on timing and 0.2 to 0.3 m on height.