Charlotteville 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 00:00 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 America/Port of Spain local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Last spring tide on Mon 18 May (range 1.0m). Next neap on Fri 22 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.

Charlotteville is Tobago's most remote settled village, at the northern tip of the island beyond Speyside at the end of the road. The village is built around Man O' War Bay — a deeply sheltered horseshoe anchorage that has given the settlement its character as a refuge from the Atlantic conditions that batter the northern headlands. The bay faces south, open to the Columbus Channel but protected from the northeast trade swell by the headlands on either side; the anchorage is one of the most secure in Tobago for yachts in trade wind conditions. A handful of yachts are typically moored in the bay alongside the local fishing pirogues, the contrast in scale between ocean-going sloops and the hand-painted open fishing boats a compact illustration of the village's economic structure. Charlotteville is a fishing village — the boats go out through the northern headland into the Atlantic in the predawn hours and return with flying fish, kingfish, and red snapper. The fish market at the village jetty operates when the boats come in; prices are competitive with Scarborough and the quality is immediate. Pirate's Bay, a 300-metre beach on the Atlantic side of the northern headland, is accessible by foot over the hill (20-minute walk from the village) or by boat (5 minutes). The beach has no facilities and no road access, which keeps it in a state of remarkable quiet for a Caribbean beach of its quality — a broad arc of white sand with clear blue water and a reef at the southern end that provides snorkelling from shore. The snorkelling quality at Pirate's Bay is good — the reef is less dived than the Speyside sites and receives less boat turbidity. Swimming at Man O' War Bay beach in the village is calm and safe given the sheltered bay configuration. The northern headlands above Charlotteville — accessible by the road that continues beyond the village to the Pirate's Bay trailhead — give views over both Man O' War Bay and the open Atlantic coast, with the exposed sea stacks and blow holes on the northern face of the headland visible on days when northerly swell is running. Tidal range at Charlotteville is mixed semidiurnal, spring range approximately 0.4 to 0.6 metres. The bay conditions are more dependent on trade wind strength than tidal state. 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 metres on height — model-derived, not from a local gauge. The Trinidad and Tobago Hydrographic Survey Office and the Institute of Marine Affairs are the domestic reference authorities.