Crown Point 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.

Crown Point is the southwest tip of Tobago and the gateway to the island — ANR Robinson International Airport is located here, handling the daily flights from Trinidad's Piarco and the seasonal international services. The area encompasses Store Bay beach, Pigeon Point Heritage Park, and the cluster of guesthouses, restaurants, and tour operator offices that constitute the island's main tourism hub. Store Bay is a small crescent of white sand on the Caribbean-facing southwest coast, protected by a reef and backed by a wall of beach facilities — food shacks serving crab and dumplings, shark and bake, and fresh coconut, operated by the legendary Miss Trim and her contemporaries whose families have run these stalls for generations. The beach is compact — perhaps 150 metres of usable sand — but reliably calm, clear, and safe for swimming at all tide stages given the small Caribbean tidal range of 0.4 to 0.5 metres spring. The beach faces roughly southwest and is in sun throughout the day. Store Bay is also the departure point for glass-bottom boat tours to Buccoo Reef — a patch reef in 1 to 3 metres of water, one of the most accessible snorkel sites in the Caribbean, though coral condition has declined since the 1980s due to bleaching events, storm damage, and the turbidity generated by the heavy boat traffic over the shallow reef itself. The Nylon Pool is a further stop on the glass-bottom boat circuit — a shallow sandbank in the middle of the sea, 1 to 2 metres deep, where the white sand underfoot and the clear turquoise water create conditions that the tour operators have elevated to legend. The sand at the Nylon Pool is said to have rejuvenating skin properties; the scientific basis for this is absent but the claim is durable. Pigeon Point Heritage Park, 2 kilometres east of the airport on the same southwest coast, is the developed beach resort area of Tobago — a managed beach with thatched roof palapas, a jetty extending over the reef, and an entrance fee. The reef at Pigeon Point is in better condition than the heavily-trafficked Buccoo section and offers productive snorkelling from the shore. The tidal range across the Crown Point coast is Caribbean microtidal throughout; conditions at both beaches are principally determined by trade wind strength and direction rather than the tide. The northwest trade swell that affects Tobago's Atlantic coast is moderated around the southwestern tip; the Crown Point area receives the diminished residual. 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 Institute of Marine Affairs in Chaguaramas, Trinidad, is the domestic authority for marine environmental data for Trinidad and Tobago.