Dubai tide times

The hero block shows the next high tide at the Port Rashid gauge inside Khor Dubai in local Gulf Standard Time (GST, UTC+4, no DST). The 7-day table covers all daily highs and lows. The Persian Gulf mixed semidiurnal pattern produces two highs and two lows of unequal size each day with the asymmetry varying through the lunar month.

Mean range at the Port Rashid gauge is about 1.4 metres — a moderate Persian Gulf signal. Spring tides push close to 2.0 metres and neaps drop near 0.6. The Gulf is shallow and partially enclosed, which produces co-oscillating tidal waves and amphidromic patterns rather than a directly forced open-ocean tide. Sea-surface temperatures in the Gulf range from about 20 degrees in February to over 35 in August.

Open-Meteo Marine, a gridded global ocean model. Useful for planning Khor Dubai abra crossings, Jumeirah Beach windows, the Palm Jumeirah inner-marina visits, and the offshore Dubai Marine Reserve snorkel sessions. For authoritative UAE tide data, the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology and the Dubai Maritime City Authority publish the official tide tables and operate the Port Rashid reference gauge.

Khor Dubai was the original natural harbour of the emirate and remains a working dhow channel for trade with Iran and East Africa. The Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali, and the World Islands were constructed from dredged Gulf seabed sand during the 2000s — the cuts between the palm fronds carry tidal exchange that the artificial-island engineers had to design for to prevent inner-basin stagnation. The Burj Al Arab silhouette rises from its own offshore sand pad. The modern container industry centred on the Jebel Ali superport replaced Mina Rashid as the bulk container terminal in the 1980s.

No. For piloting in or out of the Khor Dubai inlet, the Mina Rashid cruise terminal, the Jebel Ali container port, or any Strait-of-Hormuz approach use the UAE National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology authoritative tide tables, the Dubai Maritime City Authority pilotage guidance, and the UK Hydrographic Office Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman pilot. The shallow Gulf bathymetry and the dredged-channel-dependent harbour approaches require working pilotage for any commercial transit.