Panama City, FL tide times

The hero block shows the next high tide at the St Andrew Bay gauge in local Central time. The 7-day table covers all daily extremes. Some days will show only one high and one low — that is normal Gulf-of-Mexico behaviour, not a missing data point.

The Gulf of Mexico is a partly enclosed basin and the astronomical forcing at this latitude doesn't have the open-ocean amplification that the East Coast benefits from. Mean range across most of the Florida Panhandle is around 0.4 metres, climbing only modestly on spring tides. The tide signature is also strongly diurnal — one high and one low per day rather than two — most of the lunar month.

NOAA CO-OPS station 8729108 in St Andrew Bay. NOAA's harmonic predictions are calibrated against the gauge record and resolve the strong diurnal constituent that dominates Gulf tides. Accuracy is navigation-grade under normal weather. The smaller absolute range means storm surge can be proportionally very large compared to the underlying tide signal.

The widest exposed flats inside St Andrew Bay open at the bottom of the cycle, with the lowest spring lows clustering around new and full moons. The 7-day table flags each day's low and the time. Sunrise from the sun/moon block helps for early bird-and-shorebird visits when the flats are calmest.

No. For piloting through St Andrew Pass or any of the Gulf passes use NOAA's authoritative chart products and the latest USCG notices. The pass currents run harder than the modest height swing implies, and shoaling in the bay shifts faster than predictions can capture.