Aberdeen, Scotland tide times

Aberdeen sits on the North Sea coast of north-east Scotland between the Dee and the Don river estuaries, the granite city built almost entirely from the locally quarried Rubislaw stone that gives the streets their distinctive silver-grey colour even on overcast days. The working harbour at the Dee estuary mouth is the largest port serving the North Sea offshore oil and gas industry and the headquarters of the European supply-base operations for the East Shetland Basin, the Forties, and the Brent fields. 0 on neaps.

Two highs and two lows of comparable size about twelve and a half hours apart. The amplitude is larger than Leith on the Firth of Forth (where the funnel geometry concentrates the signal further south on the same coast) but smaller than the macrotidal English Channel and Bristol Channel coasts on the southern UK. The Dee estuary mouth dries to bare sand and rock at the lowest spring lows, and the harbour-master schedules dredged-channel access around the tide for the larger offshore-supply vessels.

The defining modern industry is the offshore energy economy. Aberdeen has been the European oil capital since the early 1970s when commercial extraction began in the central and northern North Sea, and the airport at Dyce handles more helicopter movements per year than almost any other in the world (largest single source: the offshore platform shift-change traffic). 4-megawatt turbines installed in 2018 as the first deployment of MHI Vestas V164 prototypes).

The defining cultural feature is the Aberdeen FC fan culture and the Pittodrie ground on the seafront just north of the harbour, with the team's 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup final victory over Real Madrid in Gothenburg one of the great Scottish football moments. The Footdee fishing village (locally Fittie) at the harbour mouth, the long sand corridor at Aberdeen Beach and Balmedie north of the Don estuary, the historic Old Aberdeen with King's College and St Machar's Cathedral, and the cliff-and-castle coast at Dunnottar an hour south all read the table for different windows. UK Hydrographic Office Admiralty TotalTide is the authoritative British tide product; Open-Meteo Marine drives the gridded predictions on this page.